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For profundity I think there is a small part of one of our Quaker writings that ends, "... think it possible you may be wrong." I can think of a few public figures as well as others less known who could learn from that.

"Love your enemies, for they will tell you your faults" -- Benjamin Franklin

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I aim to be more insane

If you can continue to be charming and witty despite your insanity,I say you should go for it, prof.

cheers Paul

I just popped in to apologise to the people here for my throwing a dummy routine, and in particular anyone I upset.

I'm not part of this thread any more - I found out that you actually do automatically unsubscribe from your own thread if you remove the original journal entry, which I did.

Jabs

...aww! Heck, Jab! Actually I was rather enjoying this thread, a place to record aphorisms as they occur and indulge in interpretive fractured aphorisms...

It seems kind of sad that Jabs won't be part of the thread any more. For what it's worth, Pierce the Pirate has an ongoing thread called "Words of wisdom."

Having found this thread and posted on it, I find that I'm now re-subscribed! Glad to be back!

(Friedrich Nietzsche - 'The Glad to be Back Book - Metaphysical Enquiries As To The Nature Of Being Back As Pertaining To The Concept Of The Eternal Return', 1869).

But without the going, how can there be the return?

man - didn't know you'd been away Jabs

Thanks

Very good point about Nietzsche, el D. Unfortunately, it's more properly known as the Eternal Recurrence, which didn't fit me as I was returning from the wild wastes of General Hootootwo - I guess that should be Hootoothree, counting the time before the BBC involvement.

I think, to meet your next (upcoming) point, that N himself would paradoxically deny that there ever was a First Occurrence.

Jabs

I've kicked started your Cern thread up

So I've noticed, . I haven't posted there since Jan 6th, 2010!

Jabs

If you return to the CERN thread, it would be wise to stay away from Mrs. Abernathy, who crossed a portal from Hell when the CERN project started running.

verb. sap

It does get difficult sometimes looking for a lapsed thread, on that, I had to search for this thread before finding it to bring it up.

The h2g2 internal search engine certainly could use a measure of improvement, not least on being able to call up a lapsed thread by title.

Recently, It took me a very long time to find a lapsed thread that hadn't been active since early 2008.

Consequence, since I was unable to scroll back through the 'My Space' list to the lapsed thread, I'm indexing the older listings page by page in bookmarks so that I can at least bring them up fairly quickly if I know approximately when the item I'm interested in was posted.

"Rome wasn't built in a day." ...nor any home, or shop or monument in it...




All that aside, impulse that brought me back to this thread, before quickly re-reading it, I'm reminded of a 1960s vintage film titled "IF", something dating from the period of the drug craze and the anti-war craze of the 1960s.

The story was set in an upper class English boys' school, focusing on the seamy side of the boys school environment.

At a critical turning point in the film, the boys, all ages from the post kindergarten set, to students in their late teens, were being given, in context of military training, a pep talk by an Anglican minister on the moral qualms they might be suffering with respect to a prospect of military service, founded in the doctrine of 'original sin'.

Punchline: a traditional and doctrinal percept on original sin: "Original sin is no excuse for despair.".




Further commentaries withheld for the moment. I've got not one, but two, urgently needed writing projects to finish in much too little time, a case like the Red Queen from Lewis Carrols' 'Alice' stories having to run twice as fast as she could just to stay where she was, taken against time demands of personal and family commitments which amount to having to run four or five times as fast as I can.

If the threads were sitting around too long, no wonder they developed laps!

"If no one confesses, then everyone must be presumed equally guilty!"

-Napoleon Bonaparte during his youth, while attending the military academy, when someone released his pet eagle. The Eagle later returned.

"Violence never solved anything."

-Ghenghis Khan