One of the southern folks is gonna get you on this one, Angie.......

Bill :)

Yeah y'all. Gotta cut her some slack tho. She might have been going with the misspelling philosophy. And Bill, I did read your earlier post, but I hadn't finished the bottle yet.

hiccup.

This thread started out so high brow.... *hangs head* look what we've done. Think we can clean it up before the OP comes back and sees this mess?

The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force.

OK... Try agina
 

Karl Marx may have not been a good choice....

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Or.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Say Good night Gracie.

Sleep tight!
 

Good night Gracie.... :laugh::laugh::laugh:

Posting #17 to #20
 

Have reread very thought provoking comments of those posts and pondered. #17. If we just become more of who you've always been, we have aged but we never learned from our existence? It's kind of sad if that's true. #18 Emotions, yes, and people do have egos but bristling with prejudices....? #19. We do definitely become more outspoken but don't we also become more mellow? It goes to another posting, to be outspoken, for strong causes one firmly believes in. Yet, many of the boomers were young when they protested against the Vietnam war so why do we say we become more outspoken as we age? Then we go back to posting #17 where we become more of who we were always? #20. If we never had major failures in life, I guess we do become quite arrogant so we need failures to remind us of humility? From personal experience, I would agree with that. There is danger lurking when people feel they can do no wrong or they are above others.

RichieLion. You are absolutely right. I love shooting the breeze also and bantering. Perhaps because we feel like we are back in high school or college therefore we love TV so much. On the other hand, even at a college dorm, don't you at times go to a big topic "by accident"? Like, why are we here? What is the purpose of our existence? What is the probability of having a planet just like us out there? It happens usually on weekends when we don't have dates and after having eaten a soggy pizza and after exhausting all the shooting the breeze stuff.

Never attended a proper college after high school. I studied at an art school for a couple of years called the School Of Visual Arts in N.Y.C., which wasn't accredited at that time, and there was no dorm life as I lived at home. When I tired of the art world I left school and worked a bit, until Uncle Sam had some chores for me to do, since I wasn't doing anything better, I guess.

I've had those conversations you mention at times with the rather large group of friends I had, and there usually was a pungent smoke in the air that accompanied most of those discussions, with maybe a little Crosby, Still, Nash and Young on the stereo for effect.

Almost all of those I'd known from those carefree days who were seeking enlightenment eventually got jobs, bought a home and raised a family, and now complain about taxes and the price of gasoline. Maybe the next generation has discovered the meaning of our existence; and if not, maybe the following will do so. I have a feeling there isn't any celestial meaning. It is what it is. The struggle to survive while trying to remain free enough to choose our own path.

RichieLion. You know I am getting addicted to this. My wife says I am spending too much time on TOTV. And she is right and I should do this in moderation but.... Anyway, I read recently that most scientists are atheists or at most agnostics but don't quote me. If, however, this life is it, I don't see many in despair. They carry on as normal a life as possible which in a way is quite courageous. We should't go the religious route since this postings are not about religion but still a food for thought. I am also glad that postings are avoiding political arena but discussing the essence of human nature.

Ah Richie, I remember well those long-past days of smoke-filled rooms and meaninful conversations. (Even if half way through we'd forget the topic).

You wrote about the meaning of our existence. I've been blessed to meet a Medium in the Villages that can communicate with the other dimension. She is a retired U.S. Navy Officer and on 9/11, was Aide to the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff. She is the real deal. Getting to know this woman and being exposed to the other dimension is the most significant thing that has ever happened in my life.

I don't usually talk about her because I'm not interested in defending my beliefs or "selling" anyone else on them. From conversations she has had with the spirit world, and I've been there, I understand now the meaning of our existence and what will transpire when we leave our body suits behind and move to the other dimension. To quote my friend "We are spirit-beings here and now. What we do with every minute of our lives truly matters, and there is nothing more important than loving and caring for one another".

Bare,

I went with some girlfriends to a girls retreat. Von Praugh (sp) was there and he pulled my girlfriend out of the crowd and talked to her about her parents and brothers who were dead. Understand she is in her 40s and too young to have both parents and both brothers dead. He told her things that she didn't like to talk about and when the conversation was over, he told her to see a doctor for her neck. He saved her life. She had thyroid cancer. We just don't know what we don't know.

Foreigners
 

Who went to watch Fox and Friends taping and heard Foreigners sing "I want to know what love is". What is love?

I thought these kids nailed it.
 

These kids know what love is. Out of the mouth of babes comes much wisdom.

Angie, thanks for the story. You are so right, we just don't know what we don't know.

For those who PMed me and asked for the name of the Medium, I will PM you back for sure! I've just been busy, sorry for the delay.