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what is the most important thing in life to know?

 
 
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 09:00 am
@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:
It WAS free for her, but not for you. (?)
Is that what Setanta MEANT??

I don 't believe that it is.





David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 09:03 am
@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:
It WAS free for her, but not for you. (?) That is to say, SOMEONE had to pay for it.
If someone harvests peaches from a feral tree? and chomps upon them ?
( after applying a suitable amount of cream, of course )
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 06:03 pm
@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:
It WAS free for her, but not for you. (?) That is to say, SOMEONE had to pay for it.


Bingo ! ! !
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Wed 22 Jun, 2011 06:44 pm
@Setanta,
JLNobody wrote:
It WAS free for her, but not for you. (?) That is to say, SOMEONE had to pay for it.
Setanta wrote:
Bingo ! ! !
OK, Bingo: will u explain the intense VALUE
of knowledge of that purported fact??

What GOOD comes from that? Please enlighten us.





David
hamilton
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 01:08 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
no good or evil came from anything. except for the holocaust. and that was pretty bad.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 01:28 pm
@hamilton,
I will be visiting Auschwitz in November. Been to Krakow before in 1994, but didn't think I could handle the emotion of it. Since then, I've visited several holocaust museums including the one in Jerusalem.
hamilton
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 01:32 pm
@cicerone imposter,
i read night. my experience with the holocaust is up to there. but reading it made me incredibly sad.
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JLNobody
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 02:14 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
A valid question. As I interpret the dictum, There's no such thing as a free lunch, it's a warning to the naive that they should not expect to be taken care of, that they must expect to support themselves.
hamilton
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 02:19 pm
@JLNobody,
i agree.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 09:33 pm
@cicerone imposter,
cicerone imposter wrote:
I will be visiting Auschwitz in November. Been to Krakow before in 1994,
but didn't think I could handle the emotion of it. Since then,
I've visited several holocaust museums including the one in Jerusalem.
Will u also visit any communist slave labor camps????
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 09:34 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
No. However, on my first visit to Warsaw, we visited the Jewish ghetto. I'm not even sure it still exists today.
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Sun 26 Jun, 2011 09:43 pm
@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:
A valid question. As I interpret the dictum, There's no such thing as a free lunch,
it's a warning to the naive that they should not expect to be taken care of,
that they must expect to support themselves.
It is a warning to be careful to avoid getting CHEATED,
when someone offers what is ostensibly something for nothing.

It implies that the donor's greed and stinginess
will prevent him from giving away property ( bait )
without getting a GREATER RETURN at the expense of the unsuspecting, naive recipient,
who must be the donor 's prey.





David
JLNobody
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 05:35 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
That's right too.
JLNobody
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 05:42 pm
@JLNobody,
David, another important thing to know is that we are all going to die soon, and for that reason alone we should not waste our time. Today I am 77 years old--can't believe the time has passed so fast--but at least I'm a healthy and youthful old fart determined to make the most of his remaining years, and then to die peacefully (perhaps with drugs, if necessary) without regrets, just appreciation for the ride.
cicerone imposter
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 06:40 pm
@JLNobody,
You are an old fart - about two years older than me!

It's been a great ride for me too, and I'm still trying to squeeze in some living before my health doesn't allow me to travel any more. Just booked another trip to Australia, because I got such a good deal. This time to Melbourne, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Ayers Rock, - then to the Great Barrier Reef, Port Douglas, Cape Tribulation, and finally to Sydney. I've been to the Great Barrier Reef, Port Douglas, and Sydney on my first trip to Australia, so I'm really looking forward to the rest of the places I'll be visiting for the first time. Also have a trip to Turkey in September, a trip to Poland and a cruise from Prague to Hamburg in November, and a Caribbean cruise in January.

Yea, it's been a great ride, and hope to continue on for a bit longer!
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Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 06:50 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
This is an excellent exposition of the warning implicit in TANSTAAFL.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 06:57 pm
@JLNobody,
JLNobody wrote:
David, another important thing to know is that we are all going to die soon,
That is an idle superstitution. BULLoney!
Don 't fall for that.

When our deciduous teeth fell down at age 6, did we die???
Well, the WHOLE THING is deciduous; we are not gonna die.
That is mistaken identity; what thay throw in the hole is NOT us,
the same as the worn out shoes that we throw in the trash are not us.




JLNobody wrote:
and for that reason alone we should not waste our time. Today I am 77 years old--can't believe the time has passed so fast--but at least I'm a healthy and youthful old fart determined to make the most of his remaining years, and then to die peacefully (perhaps with drugs, if necessary) without regrets, just appreciation for the ride.
Yeah, good luck with that.

Richard Bach says that we r the OTTERS of the Universe.





David
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OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 07:23 pm
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
This is an excellent exposition of the warning implicit in TANSTAAFL.
In the spirits of iconoclasm & hedonism:
I have given away free cash (to unexpecting donee-beneficiaries of my arbitrary choice)
getting nothing in return, nor expecting anything.

On some occasions,
I have dropped money from passing hot air balloons
onto the grass below. On other occasions,
in the spirit of hedonism: I have abandoned
$2O bills in common areas of nice hotels
in which I am staying during conventions
of groups to which I belong, just leaving them alone, scattered around
on top of wooden furniture, for the random benefit of the first person to come along.

Any person who takes possession of that cash
is free to apply it to the purchase of LUNCH,
or anything else of his choice.

MULTIPLE be the chuckles!

By those actions: I have DISPROVEN "TANSTAAFL".

As if that were not sufficiently dispositive:
in a few days, I intend to venture forth to Portland, Oregon
for another convention, where I will meet a member of this forum
and I will buy lunch for her and her son, for FREE, expecting NOTHING in return.

Quad Est Demonstratum: "the myth is BUSTED."





David
Setanta
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 07:27 pm
@OmSigDAVID,
The size and extent of your ego is only surpassed by your ignorance.
OmSigDAVID
 
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Reply Mon 27 Jun, 2011 07:31 pm
@Setanta,
Setanta wrote:
The size and extent of your ego is only surpassed by your ignorance.
Ignorance of WHAT??
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