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what is the most important thing in life to know?

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JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 14 Jun, 2011 11:22 pm
@cicerone imposter,
My feeling, C.I., is that war is run by the "sin" of greed, and the gullibility of the young men and women who are maimed and killed is part of the reason the greedy manage to pull it off year after year. Conscientious objectors are heroic souls.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 10:20 am
@JLNobody,
The defense contractors in this country never seems to go out of business.

The government pays them on their R&D costs, and then spends additional billions to buy the equipment - most often that are not needed in today's wars.
JLNobody
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 10:57 am
@cicerone imposter,
Yes, in my more cynical moments I suspect that the military industrial complex (read the pentagon and arms industry lobby) pushes continuously for us to find excuses to be in a virtually continuous (and profitable) war.
laughoutlood
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 09:14 pm
@hamilton,
Quote:
what would it be?




hold it tight
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RKCastillo
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:42 pm
@hamilton,
Hamilton, the most important thing to know in life is God, to know God, and then to make God know. Smile
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Dorotea Assenova
 
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Reply Thu 16 Jun, 2011 07:41 am
@hamilton,
Sapere entrare nella profondità della nostra memoria, cioè, conoscere tutto ciò che abbiamo nel nostro cervello. Conoscere i lati oscuri del cervello.
Ionus
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jun, 2011 03:58 am
@JLNobody,
No I think it was just one of those little one liners history gives us...hard to tell if it is true .
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Ionus
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jun, 2011 04:00 am
@JLNobody,
Quote:
the military industrial complex
Wasnt it also Eisenhower who gave us that phrase ?
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Ionus
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jun, 2011 04:05 am
@Dorotea Assenova,
Quote:
Sapere entrare nella profondità della nostra memoria, cioè, conoscere tutto ciò che abbiamo nel nostro cervello. Conoscere i lati oscuri del cervello.

I ran the spell checker over it for you....below is the result .

Sapphire entrant fella profundity Della nostril memorial, Ciro, considered tutti Cid Che Abbasid noel nostrum cervical. Considered I late obscurity led cervical.

To which I have to say, that is one of the best posts I have seen famerman write .
hamilton
 
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Reply Fri 17 Jun, 2011 11:18 am
@Ionus,
is he/she/it speaking Italian?
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 20 Jun, 2011 06:40 am
@hamilton,
hamilton wrote:
if you could go through life knowing only one thing for sure, what would it be?
DON'T go around promiscuously TRUSTING people; keep trust to a minimum.





David
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 20 Jun, 2011 10:51 am
@OmSigDAVID,
David, "Promiscuously?" LOL
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Eva
 
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Reply Mon 20 Jun, 2011 01:56 pm
Here's my contribution:

Whatever happens, don't lose your sense of humor.
JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 21 Jun, 2011 05:27 pm
@Eva,
Now THAT'S funny!
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Setanta
 
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Reply Tue 21 Jun, 2011 05:58 pm
Quote:
what is the most important thing in life to know?


TANSTAAFL
JLNobody
 
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Reply Tue 21 Jun, 2011 09:59 pm
@Setanta,
Someone please unpack that.
Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 06:46 am
@JLNobody,
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08:47 am
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
I have taken some iconoclastic pleasure in disproving that,
like on some chosen occasions, just dropping a $1OO.oo bill
in front of her while walking past, without breaking stride.

She can use it to buy lunch for free, if she wants to; maybe a few lunches, if she does not splurge.





David
JLNobody
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08:58 am
@OmSigDAVID,
It WAS free for her, but not for you. (?)
JLNobody
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 08:59 am
@OmSigDAVID,
It WAS free for her, but not for you. (?) That is to say, SOMEONE had to pay for it.
 

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