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↑ It's my belief that you were drunk when you wrote this. ↑Chizzang wrote:Beliefs are nothing to be proud of...
Believing something is not an accomplishment.
Yet we are schooled to think that beliefs are something to be proud of
But beliefs are easy - and most frequently - Handed down from generation to generation
Nothing but opinions we refuse to challenge or reconsider
Fear is their hiding place
As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you have made it a part of your ego
Then why do we reward decisiveness regardless of accuracy and admire conviction and principle more than wondering?Chizzang wrote:Beliefs are nothing to be proud of...
Believing something is not an accomplishment.
Yet we are schooled to think that beliefs are something to be proud of
But beliefs are easy - and most frequently - Handed down from generation to generation
Nothing but opinions we refuse to challenge or reconsider
Fear is their hiding place
As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you have made it a part of your ego
it gives him a stream of consciousness panache like Hemingwaykalm wrote:Then why do we reward decisiveness regardless of accuracy and admire conviction and principle more than wondering?Chizzang wrote:Beliefs are nothing to be proud of...
Believing something is not an accomplishment.
Yet we are schooled to think that beliefs are something to be proud of
But beliefs are easy - and most frequently - Handed down from generation to generation
Nothing but opinions we refuse to challenge or reconsider
Fear is their hiding place
As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you have made it a part of your ego
(BTW, I believe there's a reason you forget certain punctuation and seem to use paragraphs randomly but I'm not proud that I don't know why)
Margaux?CID1990 wrote:it gives him a stream of consciousness panache like Hemingwaykalm wrote:
Then why do we reward decisiveness regardless of accuracy and admire conviction and principle more than wondering?
(BTW, I believe there's a reason you forget certain punctuation and seem to use paragraphs randomly but I'm not proud that I don't know why)
its the intellectual version of pumping iron on muscle beach
we'll all be doing it soon enough
Not sure you could be more wrong here Cleets.Chizzang wrote:But beliefs are easy
Of course you do...89Hen wrote:Not sure you could be more wrong here Cleets.Chizzang wrote:But beliefs are easy
I was hoping for something different from someone as staunch as youBaldy wrote:↑ It's my belief that you were drunk when you wrote this. ↑Chizzang wrote:Beliefs are nothing to be proud of...
Believing something is not an accomplishment.
Yet we are schooled to think that beliefs are something to be proud of
But beliefs are easy - and most frequently - Handed down from generation to generation
Nothing but opinions we refuse to challenge or reconsider
Fear is their hiding place
As soon as you are proud of a belief, as soon as you think it adds something to who you are, then you have made it a part of your ego
If you had kids, you might understand.Chizzang wrote:Of course you do...89Hen wrote: Not sure you could be more wrong here Cleets.
What the hell do you think these are, Illegal Aliens..?89Hen wrote:If you had kids, you might understand.Chizzang wrote:
Of course you do...
Possibly. Icelanders do come here illegally too you know.Chizzang wrote:What the hell do you think these are, Illegal Aliens..?89Hen wrote: If you had kids, you might understand.
It wasn't an insult. Who hasn't posted on here after popping a few too many?Chizzang wrote:I was hoping for something different from someone as staunch as youBaldy wrote: ↑ It's my belief that you were drunk when you wrote this. ↑
But I'll take a sideways insult
So you agree with the premise then?Baldy wrote:It wasn't an insult. Who hasn't posted on here after popping a few too many?Chizzang wrote:
I was hoping for something different from someone as staunch as you
But I'll take a sideways insult
If you want something different, post something a little more profound.
much less attractivekalm wrote:Margaux?CID1990 wrote:
it gives him a stream of consciousness panache like Hemingway
its the intellectual version of pumping iron on muscle beach
we'll all be doing it soon enough
CID1990 wrote:much less attractivekalm wrote:
Margaux?
actually Margaux wasn't too bad in her earlier yearsChizzang wrote:CID1990 wrote:
much less attractive
I am at least as good looking as her (and possibly more attractive)
Lets as Dback..?
In part, but belief systems mostly develop over time as we mature through life experiences.Chizzang wrote:So you agree with the premise then?Baldy wrote: It wasn't an insult. Who hasn't posted on here after popping a few too many?
If you want something different, post something a little more profound.
But we do not necessarily grow more wise as we grow more old...Baldy wrote: In part, but belief systems mostly develop over time as we mature through life experiences.
Never thought or believed they were accomplishments though.
Mariel...CID1990 wrote:actually Margaux wasn't too bad in her earlier yearsChizzang wrote:
I am at least as good looking as her (and possibly more attractive)
Lets as Dback..?
or am I confusing her with another hemingway daughter?
Ibanez wrote:Whoa, Cleets has children?
