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Originally Posted by Yorio
I went on a fishing expedition to see if a deeper dialogue would be possible on TOTV but guess I was wrong. Or, perhaps my questions were too vague for starting a dialogue. So, let me try again.
Recently I had an experience at our neighborhood bank where I had business for decades. Now with bank mergers, we have some new staff. I had a State Tax refund check with both of our names on it. I asked my wife to counter sign where appropriate and brought it to the bank. The cashier told me that my wife has to be present with her ID. for me to deposit in my account. We have separate account. I told her I have done this before but she said this was the rule. Now, I know technically she is right but the small branch is really a neighborhood bank and I know most of the staff there. I thought I would get that 'friendly' treatment. I know she is right but I felt cheated. Rules are rules?
Or, recently I read on a post about a 5 some on a golf course. We do that occasionally on our club. We start off as three some and two some and join together later. Technically amongst five of us, we are using two tee times but rules says no 5 some. Could there be a wink or no?
Or, on another post I read that if one sees someone walking at 10 p.m. on a golf course, she will call the police. How about if a couple with two flashlights walking between 8 and 10 p.m. in winter where no golfers around, would she still call a police? Carrying flashlights a must.
I won't start on questions such as "what is love", "what is beauty", "what is justice", "what is insanity", at least not yet or this post is a total failure.  |
I was a philosophy minor in college. Went to Loyola U and at that time if you were catholic you had to minor in religion and if you weren't you had to minor in philosophy. So, I will try to dialogue with you on things philosophical. However, I was a kid when I studied it, so my memories are rooted in things younger and more ignorant. I knew even then that 18 was too young to really comprehend philosophy on more then a shallow level.
I think things bother us less when we get older....we know, hopefully, what is worth fighting for and what is not. If we don't know this, we have not learned life's lessons. More and more, I try not to sweat the small stuff and more and more things seem like small stuff to me.
I am a big believer in the socratic method of teaching. I would ask my students a series of questions guiding them to the right answers. It worked most of the time.