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| A good question; To be? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 31 2009, 04:55 PM (386 Views) | |
| Horace | Mar 31 2009, 04:55 PM Post #1 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Or not to be? As questions go, that one seems to have stood the test of time, must be a good one. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 31 2009, 04:58 PM Post #2 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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To be WHAT? To be is pretty much the default, and requires very little. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| kenny | Mar 31 2009, 04:59 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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WHat a stoopid farking question. If you are asking it, YOU ARE. |
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| Horace | Mar 31 2009, 07:36 PM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Ah, but Descartes says it requires thinking. |
| As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good? | |
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| bachophile | Mar 31 2009, 07:40 PM Post #5 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loNOIM9fzJg |
| "I don't know much about classical music. For years I thought the Goldberg Variations were something Mr. and Mrs. Goldberg did on their wedding night." Woody Allen | |
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| Red Rice | Mar 31 2009, 07:47 PM Post #6 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Actually, what Descartes is saying is that thinking is proof that one exists. But existence is not dependent on thinking (witness Congress). |
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Civilisation, I vaguely realized then - and subsequent observation has confirmed the view - could not progress that way. It must have a greater guiding principle to survive. To treat it as a carcase off which each man tears as much as he can for himself, is to stand convicted a brute, fit for nothing better than a jungle existence, which is a death-struggle, leading nowhither. I did not believe that was the human destiny, for Man individually was sane and reasonable, only collectively a fool. I hope the gunner of that Hun two-seater shot him clean, bullet to heart, and that his plane, on fire, fell like a meteor through the sky he loved. Since he had to end, I hope he ended so. But, oh, the waste! The loss! - Cecil Lewis | |
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| NAK | Mar 31 2009, 08:21 PM Post #7 |
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Senior Carp
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| Mikhailoh | Mar 31 2009, 11:53 PM Post #8 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Frank_W | Apr 1 2009, 05:09 AM Post #9 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Given the choice, I would choose not to be. |
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 1 2009, 05:13 AM Post #10 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Quite the contrary. It depends on how you define it. Considering my own understanding of being, I think most people do a pretty poor job at it. It requires a lot of work, to really just be, and not be for or against, or with conditions. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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| big al | Apr 1 2009, 05:21 AM Post #11 |
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Bull-Carp
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To be is to do. J.P.Sartre To be is to do. Descartes To be is to do. I.Kant To do is to be. J.P.Sartre To do is to be. Nietszche To do is to be. Plato To be or not to be. William Shakespeare Do be do be do. Frank Sinatra Scooby Dooby Doo. Scooby Doo Yabba Dabba Doo. Fred Flintstone Inka Dinka Doo Jimmy Durante Boo Boo Be Doop Betty Boop Boop Boop A Doop Betty Boop De do do do, de da da da. The Police Doo Wah Diddy. Manfred Mann Do be a Do Bee, don't be a Don't Bee. Miss "?" from Romper Room The way you do the things you do. The Temptations A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-wop-bam-boom. Little Richard A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop, a-wop-bam-boom. Grease Big Al |
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Location: Western PA "jesu, der simcha fun der man's farlangen." -bachophile | |
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| Riley | Apr 1 2009, 06:56 AM Post #12 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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| Frank_W | Apr 1 2009, 06:57 AM Post #13 |
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Resident Misanthrope
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Good one, Riley.
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Anatomy Prof: "The human body has about 20 sq. meters of skin." Me: "Man, that's a lot of lampshades!" | |
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| George K | Apr 1 2009, 08:20 AM Post #14 |
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Finally
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Miss Frances. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Lucky Lurker | Apr 1 2009, 08:29 AM Post #15 |
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Junior Carp
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Very graphic, Riley
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Sock puppet permit rejected. Still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. | |
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| The 89th Key | Apr 1 2009, 09:32 AM Post #16 |
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Wow. This thread really demonstrates how busy we all are at work.
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| Aqua Letifer | Apr 1 2009, 09:55 AM Post #17 |
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ZOOOOOM!
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Actually I'm busy as all hell until about the middle of the month. Working nights and weekends. Since there's no difference between time off and time at work anymore I figure what the hell. |
| I cite irreconcilable differences. | |
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