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Original Sin?
| April 21st, 2015 at 3:57:30 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I should be clear when I mention great things I mean the greatest things ever, which is raising a family, being a loving and kind person, a good citizen, a loyal friend. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| April 21st, 2015 at 4:04:05 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
In my part of the world, that's what average people do. It's the norm, not the greatest thing ever. The GTE would be inventing FB. Or penicillin. You know, really great things that benefit us all. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| April 21st, 2015 at 7:19:12 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | I laughed out loud comparing the greatness of inventing FB to raising kids. The greatest way you can benefit us all is by being a loving and kind person. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| April 21st, 2015 at 7:30:18 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
That sounds real nice on a Hallmark card, but in real life it's rubbish. Nice people generally do finish last, but they're too nice to complain about it. There's a great middle ground between 'loving and kind' and useful and productive. Now you'll say you can be both. Not really, not if you truly want to get something accomplished. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| April 21st, 2015 at 7:37:28 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | Hey bro can you make up your mind? Earlier you said what comes around goes around and that if you are mean or evil your life becomes miserable. Now you are saying nice guys finish last. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| April 21st, 2015 at 7:47:30 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Why do you think in such extremes? Just because you're not Gandhi doesn't mean you're Jack the Ripper. There's a middle ground, you know. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| April 21st, 2015 at 8:06:22 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | What are you talking about? Getting back on track do you understand that we want to be good, loving, and productive people yet we all struggle to be what we want to be? “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| April 21st, 2015 at 9:27:17 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Who's this 'we' you keep talking about, you certainly don't speak for me. If I end up good and loving it certainly wasn't because I intended it. Productivity first, everything else later. Maybe, if there's time. Life isn't a romance novel. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| April 21st, 2015 at 11:14:26 PM permalink | |
| FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
One of the worst things you have ever written. Life is a romance/swashbuckling adventure/drama/sad/happy/funny/suspenseful novel with lots of twists and turns. The only thing life is not is a boring textbook. Think about the repercussions of thinking life is all about productivity and reducing yourself to a robot. That isn't very sexy or exciting and it certainly doesn't sound like there is room in such a life for reincarnation and certainly not God. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
| April 22nd, 2015 at 12:30:41 AM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
For most people, life is mundane and boring. Absolutely. Why do you think TV, movies and fiction is so popular? People watch soaps because they have no life outside of it. Do you think average Westerners spend 6 hours a day in front of a TV because they're forced to? They have nothing better to do, obviously. Your definition of life is straight out of a fairy tale. romance/swashbuckling adventure/drama/sad/happy/funny/ suspenseful. Seriously, you watch way too much TV. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |