1. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    28 Nov '14 21:47
    Originally posted by moonbus
    We are not here to make the world a better place. We are here to make of ourselves better people.

    But you know that, Bobby!
    Yes, my astute friend, "... to make of ourselves better people"; and as you well know, we in and of ourselves are imperfect.
  2. Subscribermoonbus
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    28 Nov '14 23:151 edit
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Yes, my astute friend, "... to make of ourselves better people"; and as you well know, we in and of ourselves are imperfect.
    We are imperfect; that means there's room for improvement. One of the joys of raising a child is being there when it wakes up to its destiny.
  3. Standard memberGrampy Bobby
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    29 Nov '14 02:361 edit
    Originally posted by moonbus
    We are imperfect; that means there's room for improvement. One of the joys of raising a child is being there when it wakes up to its destiny.
    Hopefully the improvement in our own character occurs before the child is born;
    though some children it appears raise their parents in contemporary times.
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    01 Dec '14 09:36
    Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
    Hopefully the improvement in our own character occurs before the child is born;
    though some children it appears raise their parents in contemporary times.
    I am firmly of the opinion that parents do not raise children; it is the parents who grow up by this process. (Their kids grow up later.)
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    02 Dec '14 17:21
    Originally posted by moonbus
    I am firmly of the opinion that parents do not raise children; it is the parents who grow up by this process. (Their kids grow up later.)
    You are right of course.
    But children tend to do what they see done as opposed to what we want them to do... So we still have a big responsability
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    30 Dec '14 10:56
    Originally posted by RBHILL
    My wife and I had our first son today 11/22/2014 at 2:35pm

    Weighing in at the white corner 6 pounds and 7 ounces and 20 inches
    Leonidas Rowan Hill.
    I hope Leonidas had a good first Christmas (and his parents also)?
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    28 Feb '15 10:40
    Originally posted by Ponderable
    I hope Leonidas had a good first Christmas (and his parents also)?
    You already notice the difference in him after the first three month?
  8. Subscribersonhouse
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    28 Feb '15 12:242 edits
    Congratulations old boy! For some reason Thermopylae comes to mind.
  9. Donationketchuplover
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    28 Feb '15 14:00
    Originally posted by rookie54
    congratulations...
    ditto!
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