$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', 'G')ood grief. Those ppl were going to die sooner or later anyway. Hell so am I and so are my children. And sooner or later the sun will expand and swallow up the earth.
There's more than enough misery in the world already. There's absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying where you're at right now. Same goes for GK.
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Re: One thing lost, something else gained
by wisconsin_cur » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 17:07:49
No nothing at all. There is, however, also the need to plan and prepare for a less than... luxerious future. If I want to retire without worry, than I need to plan and pay for it now. Doesn't mean that I do not enjoy life now, but it does mean that I need to not take that vacation to Paris.
If you want to reach that better future that GK images you need to start planning now and not just assume that it will happen. He says look forward to it, I charge him for not telling people that they have to work for it today.
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Re: One thing lost, something else gained
by mgibbons19 » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 19:39:39
Well no doubt. Of course you have to prepare. But that's true no matter what.
Whoever it was that said there is nothing but misery to look forward to, and nothing but misery in between now and then, and all those ppl are going to die...
Well, perhaps s/he/it needs to go back on the meds.
Whoever it was that said there is nothing but misery to look forward to, and nothing but misery in between now and then, and all those ppl are going to die...
Well, perhaps s/he/it needs to go back on the meds.
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Re: One thing lost, something else gained
by wisconsin_cur » Sat 21 Jun 2008, 20:07:14
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mgibbons19', 'W')ell no doubt. Of course you have to prepare. But that's true no matter what.
Whoever it was that said there is nothing but misery to look forward to, and nothing but misery in between now and then, and all those ppl are going to die...
Well, perhaps s/he/it needs to go back on the meds.
Whoever it was that said there is nothing but misery to look forward to, and nothing but misery in between now and then, and all those ppl are going to die...
Well, perhaps s/he/it needs to go back on the meds.
There is noting in the piece about preparing for the future. The paradigm of the present will just float away and be painlessly replaced by banjos and uncle joe telling us stories about how it was back in the day when we drive an RV across America. To not talk about what lies between the two is the height of irresponsibility.
It is like telling a 18 year old in 1943 about how his will be called the greatest generation and he will be held in esteem by all for saving freedom from fascism... and leaving out D-day, or how the visions of the concentration camp will haunt him his entire life, or the good friend left on the beach.
Life is both D-day and banjos, it is sitting around telling stories to children and it is leaving your buddies screaming in pain on the beach... Heck... sometimes it is being the person left on the beach with the entrails hanging out.
Garrison (and many of his generation) have forgotten that.
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