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WT Sharpe · 07-04-2010, 08:13 AM

.....If now in this connection of discourse, we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy, already propounded once and again, that every man shall maintain himself,--but I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and great, attentive to its sensations, losing its soul, and afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings, and with ministration to its voracity of trifles. Dr. Johnson said severely, "Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick."
..........— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882), American philosopher, essayist, and poet. The Conduct of Life (1860), VI: "Considerations by the Way."

kennyc · 07-04-2010, 08:39 AM

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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

.....If now in this connection of discourse, we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy, already propounded once and again, that every man shall maintain himself,--but I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and great, attentive to its sensations, losing its soul, and afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings, and with ministration to its voracity of trifles. Dr. Johnson said severely, "Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick."
..........— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882), American philosopher, essayist, and poet. The Conduct of Life (1860), VI: "Considerations by the Way."

Wait, is this about our new moderator PoohBear?? I'm soooo confused.

poohbear_nc · 07-04-2010, 09:31 AM

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Wait, is this about our new moderator PoohBear?? I'm soooo confused.

Now just a minute - I totally deny that cannibal accusation!
[stomping off muttering to find a pithy cannibal quote!]

GeoffC · 07-04-2010, 10:33 AM

just let him eat his words ......

kennyc · 07-04-2010, 10:53 AM

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just let him eat his words ......

poohbear_nc · 07-04-2010, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

just let him eat his words ......

troymc · 07-04-2010, 02:38 PM

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
- Walter Benjamin

poohbear_nc · 07-04-2010, 02:44 PM

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Originally Posted by troymc

“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
- Walter Benjamin

Perfect! A cannibal quote!

BenG · 07-05-2010, 11:38 AM

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

poohbear_nc · 07-05-2010, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by BenG

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

I'm afraid I do that all the time!!

Especially at work!

Wonderful quote!

GeoffC · 07-05-2010, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by BenG

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

I'm afraid I do that all the time!!

Especially at work!

Wonderful quote!

Is that not your reflection in your monitor ....

?

GeoffC · 07-05-2010, 11:45 AM

kennyc · 07-05-2010, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by BenG

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
Garrison Keillor

Garrison has been spying on me again!

poohbear_nc · 07-05-2010, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by GeoffC

Is that not your reflection in your monitor ....

?

Unfortunately - yes!

WT Sharpe · 07-06-2010, 12:36 AM

.....This means, in some sense, that what happens to us automatically affects things instantaneously in distant corners of the universe, since our wave functions were probably entangled at the beginning of time. In some sense there is a web of entanglement that connects distant corners of the universe, including us.
..........— Michio Kaku (1947 - ), American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory. Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel.

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07-04-2010, 08:13 AM	#166
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,073 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....If now in this connection of discourse, we should venture on laying down the first obvious rules of life, I will not here repeat the first rule of economy, already propounded once and again, that every man shall maintain himself,--but I will say, get health. No labor, pains, temperance, poverty, nor exercise, that can gain it, must be grudged. For sickness is a cannibal which eats up all the life and youth it can lay hold of, and absorbs its own sons and daughters. I figure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phantom, absolutely selfish, heedless of what is good and great, attentive to its sensations, losing its soul, and afflicting other souls with meanness and mopings, and with ministration to its voracity of trifles. Dr. Johnson said severely, "Every man is a rascal as soon as he is sick." ..........— Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 –1882), American philosopher, essayist, and poet. *The Conduct of Life* (1860), VI: "Considerations by the Way."

07-04-2010, 10:33 AM	#169
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,600 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	just let him eat his words ......

07-04-2010, 02:38 PM	#172
troymc Groupie Posts: 161 Karma: 608 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Plano, TX Device: Sony PRS-505 + B&N Nook + Motion LE1700 + Motorola Xoom Wifi	“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.” - Walter Benjamin

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BenG Home Guard Posts: 4,729 Karma: 86721650 Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Device: Kindle Oasis 3G, iPhone 6	Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it. Garrison Keillor

07-05-2010, 11:45 AM	#177
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07-06-2010, 12:36 AM	#180
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,073 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	.....This means, in some sense, that what happens to us automatically affects things instantaneously in distant corners of the universe, since our wave functions were probably entangled at the beginning of time. In some sense there is a web of entanglement that connects distant corners of the universe, including us. ..........— Michio Kaku (1947 - ), American theoretical physicist specializing in string field theory. *Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel*.