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| Thread ID: 66325 | 2006-02-19 03:18:00 | Strings attached | beetle (243) | PC World Chat |
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| 431979 | 2006-02-20 22:30:00 | Shortcircuit: Your meals on wheels lady must have quite a long route. Anything's possible... my meals on wheels lady looks like she's 'been around' a bit. Thanks MurrayP for reaffirming my antipodean upbringing... nice to know I've been truely bastardised ;) |
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| 431980 | 2006-02-20 23:14:00 | Fine sentiments, beetle. I think our behaviour hasn't realy had a fundamental shift in attitude since our cave dwelling days. (Aaah I remember it well, those mammoth fritters round the fireside with sauce from fresh picked mulberries and a garnish of spicy chopped gecko. Hmmmmmm. Yes Homer S. says it all.) For men, the prescribed role is get out there and fight and provide for the child bearer and off spring. For women, since you're around the cave anyway, may as well take on the cleaning and other domestic chores. Yet not only did men have to fight one another and natural hazards and animals in competition for resources, they also had to, at times, co-operate for the good of all. A mammoth is too much for one family anyway, so better to bond in clans where the booty can be shared and used also as an investment in future support. So we have always had a partnership of the two, we compete at times, we co-operate at times. Within the clans the men compteted for the prospering of their clan over the obstacles outside and competed within for power and therefore for dominion over resources, the greater food supply giving their offspring the greater chance of survial. We are 'life' just like elephants and pumpkins, we want to expand and prosper. And thus it went on for millenia. Competing for power resources and using every mechanism of deceit and violence and seduction to retain and expand our access to resources and the chances of our replication. Many lost, and lose, the plot and go for power for it's own sake, mistakenly identiying it as an end in itself. And then they get a bit wobbly and end up going totally troppo. The "strong man" leadership concept endures. The TV show with Geena Davis as the pres of the USA exemplifies this. "In times like these can we have a woman in charge?" And to get back to your point yes some people are more helpful than others. Men are brought up (maybe even some stuff hardwired) to help for the comon good because they benefit from it and compete to raise their own stakes at the same time. elping outside of this is seen as weakness.The 'tough, mean' hero does not easily change to nursing a sparrow with a broken wing. That's why we are such **** sometimes, we fear not being so. Editor's note. Alright already enough of this rant, you'll be here all day. |
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| 431981 | 2006-02-21 01:18:00 | Ok found another ditty to read . . . . . . . . . . . . . :p God Doesn't Close One Door . . . We have often heard it said that God never closes one door unless he opens another . It is a great comfort to know we never really lose when we believe, for any defeat can be turned to good if we will absorb the lesson in it . And yet, how often we refuse to go through that door that has been opened for us . It is so much easier to stand back and wail about the closed one . There seems to be a certain amount of gratification in defeat . Sometimes a door will close for us because that particular one would have caused us more unhappiness, but it never closes for punishment . God is love—and love does not punish, nor does it have any power but to give what is right and good for us . With this knowledge we can walk with grace through those doors that open to us . -Joyce Hifler- The only prob is i keep forgetting to shut the door ive been thro, leave the past behind me, not let it sneak in and say Boo while i not looking . . . :D Or maybe stop rehashing the past? :rolleyes: beetle |
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