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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 05, 2024, 10:21:48 AM »

Ghandi's list of Seven Blunders:

1. Wealth without work
2. Pleasure without conscience
3. Knowledge without character
4. Commerce without morality
5. Science without humanity
6. Worship without sacrifice
7. Politics without principle

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 05, 2024, 10:00:16 AM »

Did you know that logic is branch of mathematics?  Here's an argument from Intro to Reason and Logic:

You can't win an argument with a crazy person.

All women all crazy.

Therefore, you can't win an argument with a woman. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: The unread letter(s)

« on: October 04, 2024, 02:33:36 PM »

I don't miss you during winter blizzards, or fall's beautiful colors, or even spring's promises of new blooms, but I miss you during summer sunsets. During those other times, I am too busy to stop and think of you.  It is during the lazy summer days that time slows down and one day rolls into the next and I miss you during its many beautiful sunsets. It is when a summer day is ending and another promised one is coming that I feel most lonely due to my wasted day without you, and I feel the emptiness because I know tomorrow's promise of a new day will come without you as well.   

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 04, 2024, 10:09:12 AM »

In a book on hypnotism that I listened to, there is one thing that a woman does that drives a man's animal instinct to come and approach her. Make eye contact with the guy and then look away to the right side. Later make eye contact with the guy again and then this time look down. Now don't look at him anymore. The message from her eye contact actions send a message of submission and triggers a man's animal instincts to pursue a submissive female. Nature's conditioning takes over and he simply can't help himself but must approach the woman. Good luck hunting. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 03, 2024, 02:02:14 PM »

The world doesn't have enough space for all the egos to be right, because someone has to be wrong. Right and wrong is a perception and a judgement from a limited, and probably negative, perspective. It is better to focus on love and kindness.  Love and kindness are never wrong and they create more for everyone.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 02, 2024, 09:58:31 PM »

It is said that Ghandi so neutralized the hatred of the British so much so that he even scheduled his civil disobedience around their holidays, so that it would not inconvenience his enemies' family and religious times.  He completely neutralized their negative energies and all they had left was their love for the peaceful understanding man. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 02, 2024, 02:32:39 PM »

One of the greatest baseball managers of all time, John McGraw employs a strategy that takes risks and tests the nerve of the other team by always stretching a single into a double or a double into a triple.  One should always take risk when in competition.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 02, 2024, 09:33:33 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCNp_jl5m6c

If you could have a wish, what would it be for?

There are so many wishes that come to mind, but I would wish for inner strength to complete my tasks the way that I want to. So that I may share happiness with those around me. 

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: October 02, 2024, 07:50:21 AM »

At a friend's wedding a long time, I heard the following passage from the Corinthians 13:4-8. That was the first time I heard it. It sounded so beautiful to me, and so when you hear something new and interesting for the first time, you always remember the place and time you hear it. Most of us get love wrong because we came for me. The ones that get it right, they came for her or for him.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: September 27, 2024, 05:32:28 AM »

Admiral McRaven's speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBuIGBCF9jc

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: September 19, 2024, 12:10:31 PM »

"The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do." - Henry Moore, Sculpture

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: September 13, 2024, 10:22:03 AM »

"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy." - Rabindranath Tagore

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: September 02, 2024, 07:10:05 AM »

All Buddhist take a vow to not harm others but some go further to alleviate the suffering of others as well.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: September 02, 2024, 07:08:08 AM »

Effective Altruism:

This is the life that I want to lead because it will bring joy and happiness to everyone. It will be a satisfying and fulfilling life.

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Shout Outs & Dedications / Re: On my exciting and amazing journey to the stars.....

« on: September 02, 2024, 05:24:18 AM »

"The unplanned life life is unlikely to be fully happy." - Aristotle