Originally posted by SunburntYou miss the whole point. Issue is 'full stature' and maturity... not our pilgrim's progress slips and falls, indulgences and shipwrecks along the way.
Are you saying that the worst of times in your life you didn't grow emotionally because you didn't go to the depths of misery a time or two? You were never selfish in your youth? You didn't ignore someone who loved you or you were never ungrateful? You haven't complained because you wanted something, purely wanted something? The self needs that balance. I ...[text shortened]... ents. How can a person exist on earth without some days of pure decadence? Come on now....
Originally posted by PinkFloyd"Bow' as in stiff necked/resistant to being taught and growing up. Your baseball reference suggest positive resolve. I pitched and played first base.
When I played baseball, "Bow your neck" was a common encouragement from teammates, intended to get one excited and confident. So I'm not sure that I ubderstand a negative association there. As for the rest, as usual, I agree with Bobby's sentiments,
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyMy god gb. you really have lost it. Where you see macho immaturity and boasting, the rest of us see jesting and humour.
Nothing has changed. Macho immaturity still insists on boasting about what it lacks.
You need to go to Rancho Relaxo for some soul searching and a chill pill.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyToo many posts to respond to here.
Wrong. Dead wrong. Absolute truth isn't subject to your private interpretation or mine. It's out there to be apprehended by you and by me.
I think you have some nerve telling me I'm wrong. You give absolute truths to people in this forum. That's wrong.
Full maturity is when? Just so we are all on notice, please.
Originally posted by ivan2908Everything you say here has truth.
All our universe could only be just a core of the single atom of carbon in a poop of a some other world's dead fish. All our life could be a simple dream. We don't know nothing. Is it Universe small or big ? Who are we ? We only think to know what the limited human perception can suggest to us. Usually, that's brutal simplification of the "reality" around ...[text shortened]... to approximate the world around them. Hence, I don't believe in dogmas or absolute truth.
As they say though, how difficult you find something depends on whether or not you RTFM.
We, as a species, have been given the manual. Open your mind and heart to it, and everything changes.
Originally posted by SunburntThink about the principle again. An assertion of fact is either true or it's false... irrespective of what I may think or your hurt feelings may say.
Too many posts to respond to here.
I think you have some nerve telling me I'm wrong. You give absolute truths to people in this forum. That's wrong.
Full maturity is when? Just so we are all on notice, please.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyBaseball runs in my husband's family. His dad was a well-known pitcher in semi-pros in this area from age 16 to 36. Hubby and brothers followed suit. He was a rookie in the camp of a pro team when Uncle Sam interfered in WW2. That ended his pitching career.
"Bow' as in stiff necked/resistant to being taught and growing up. Your baseball reference suggest positive resolve. I pitched and played first base.