28 Dec 08
Originally posted by sasquatch672Respect your right to an opinion. Interested also in your description of strength. I've no use for wimps afraid to speak their mind. Now or ever.
No, my experience here has been that the weak post impossibly sugary things thinking that everyone will like them, while the people with half a sense of humor use the sugar-sweet musings for their only possible positive use: ridicule.
28 Dec 08
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyYou're a good guy. No malice aforethought associated with you. I've no beef with you per se. Sometimes you put forward some very, ah, well, thoughts that one's granddaughter might describe as "sweet". Me - I've got a fairly rough exterior. I'm aware of that and comfortable with it. As for strength - you either bend to an external force or you don't. Fairly straightforward, as far as I see it.
Respect your right to an opinion. Interested also in your description of strength. I've no use for wimps afraid to speak their mind. Now or ever.
28 Dec 08
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Originally posted by sasquatch672Water's power comes not from resisting or refusing to yield, but it adapts easily to flow around anything in it's path and cannot be stopped. Water overcomes obstacles not by destroying them with a sudden burst of force but with persistence, gradually wearing away the rocks in the bed of a river or the cliffs on the seacoast.
You're a good guy. No malice aforethought associated with you. I've no beef with you per se. Sometimes you put forward some very, ah, well, thoughts that one's granddaughter might describe as "sweet". Me - I've got a fairly rough exterior. I'm aware of that and comfortable with it. As for strength - you either bend to an external force or you don't. Fairly straightforward, as far as I see it.
28 Dec 08
Originally posted by Ice ColdWay too philosophical for me. Have you been watching Kung Fu?
Water's power comes not from resisting or refusing to yield, but it adapts easily to flow around anything in it's path and cannot be stopped. Water overcomes obstacles not by destroying them with a sudden burst of force but with persistence, gradually wearing away the rocks in the bed of a river or the cliffs on the seacoast.
28 Dec 08
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIt's possible you are correct...but I'm just a stupid baby boomer, so what do I know?? 😏
Gentle Proposition for 2009
Gentle Proposition for 2009: That smarts and excellence in virtually any area of human knowledge, skill or endeavor are achieved (if at
all) patiently and by degree, and that the mechanics of achievement always involve correct daily priorities and maximum concentration.
Quite sure overall building block progres ...[text shortened]... in the arenas of professional career skills as well as chess prowess. What think ye?
🙂
03 Jan 09
Originally posted by Ice ColdAh, childhood memories! 🙂
Water's power comes not from resisting or refusing to yield, but it adapts easily to flow around anything in it's path and cannot be stopped. Water overcomes obstacles not by destroying them with a sudden burst of force but with persistence, gradually wearing away the rocks in the bed of a river or the cliffs on the seacoast.
Europa hatte zweimal Krieg,
der dritte wird der letzte sein.
Gib bloß nicht auf, gib nicht klein bei,
das weiche Wasser bricht den Stein
Es reißt die schwersten Mauern ein,
und sind wir schwach, und sind wir klein,
wir wollen wie das Wasser sein,
das weiche Wasser bricht den Stein
Die Rüstung sitzt am Tisch der Welt
und Kinder, die vor Hunger schrein,
für Waffen fließt das große Geld:
Doch weiches Wasser bricht den Stein
Komm feiern wir ein Friedensfest
und zeigen, wie sich's leben läßt.
Mensch! Menschen können Menschen sein:
Das weiche Wasser bricht den Stein
04 Jan 09
Originally posted by NordlysTranslation would be nice.
Ah, childhood memories! 🙂
Europa hatte zweimal Krieg,
der dritte wird der letzte sein.
Gib bloß nicht auf, gib nicht klein bei,
das weiche Wasser bricht den Stein
Es reißt die schwersten Mauern ein,
und sind wir schwach, und sind wir klein,
wir wollen wie das Wasser sein,
das weiche Wasser bricht d ...[text shortened]... leben läßt.
Mensch! Menschen können Menschen sein:
Das weiche Wasser bricht den Stein
04 Jan 09
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThe quiet rage is building inside me. By 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I will have taken on the mannerisms of a crazed rabid dog inside my own house, surely leading to my wife working very hard on coming up with good reasons to stay married to me. Kickoff's at 4:42 PM. Some Eagles defensive end with sinister intentions is going to cram one or more footballs down the gullet of young Tarvaris Jackson, and that good but unfortunate soul will be considering another line of work.
Howdy, High Priest of the Higher Altitudes, how's by you? By the way, everybody's got to be somewhere and from some exotic vintage.
😀
04 Jan 09
Originally posted by sasquatch672Go Eagles. I took them without hesitation to cover 3.5!
The quiet rage is building inside me. By 4:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, I will have taken on the mannerisms of a crazed rabid dog inside my own house, surely leading to my wife working very hard on coming up with good reasons to stay married to me. Kickoff's at 4:42 PM. Some Eagles defensive end with sinister intentions is going to cram one or more f ...[text shortened]... Tarvaris Jackson, and that good but unfortunate soul will be considering another line of work.