Archive through February 06, 2002
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Archive through February 06, 2002
Urgrace | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 07:04 am     Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Hebrews 13: 2
I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. Samuel Johnson (Rasselas Ch.16) |
Babyruth | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 01:19 pm     Urgrace, I love these quotes!! (even tho I'm not a religious person) Thanks for sharing them. ((((((((Urgrace))))))))) Can you tell me where the second quote is from? I'm not familiar with the source you wrote. Thanks for helping-- |
Oregonfire | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 01:40 pm     Hey Babyruth, I can tell you a bit about Rasselas. Samuel Johnson wrote the piece as an English version of Candide's Voltaire, and lampoons the idea of the perfectibility of man, a popular notion at the time (1759). Basically the story follows the guileless prince Rasselas through a series of adventures with his older scientist friend and a female sidekick. Through these adventures, Rasselas is trying to become a better, happier human being, but the story basically ends on a sour note; Rasselas may as well have stayed in his walled palace, because there is no "higher truth" as he had once believed. Every path has its fallacy. It's kinda like the anti-Siddhartha, who attained enlightenment by realizing just that: earthly desires and pursuits are empty, and ultimately only cause suffering. |
Urgrace | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 03:19 pm     Thanks Oregonfire. Babyruth, you don't have to be 'religious' to understand that many encounters with seemingly ordinary people change our lives and have an angel-like quality!  |
Babyruth | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 04:18 pm     oops- duplicate message- |
Babyruth | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 04:18 pm     Thanks, Urgrace-- That's very true. That's what I like about that quote--not only does it seem to be quite true, but it's also a philosophy to live by. Oregonfire, thanks!!! You're great! You ought to be a teacher or something-  |
Oregonfire | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 04:26 pm     No problem, BR! I'm loads of fun at a party, as I'm sure you can imagine. (The last party I was at, there was an English Ph.D, and he was so boring that I was positively clawing to get away, which leads me to wonder, "Am I that boring too?") |
Babyruth | Sunday, January 06, 2002 - 06:14 pm     Absolutely NOT!!! No Way, No How. I enjoy reading what you have to say. Seems to me a heck of a lot of other people here do too. |
Urgrace | Tuesday, January 08, 2002 - 09:54 pm     The most wasted of all days is one without laughter......e.e.cummings Dont' frown even when you are sad, because you never know who is falling in love with your smile! ......heartwarmers |
Nancy | Friday, January 11, 2002 - 08:01 pm     Phrases of Wisdom...... ------------------------ 1. If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out. 2. Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. 3. If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before. 4. For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. 5. If you look like your passport picture, you probably need the trip. 6. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of cheques. 7. Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal with it. 8. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand. 9. Middle age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places. 10. Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused. |
Lancecrossfire | Wednesday, January 16, 2002 - 09:20 pm     A story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. In a specific point of the journey, they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one, who got slapped, was hurt, but without anything to say, he wrote in the sand: "TODAY, MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE". They kept on walking, until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who got slapped and hurt started drowning, and the other friend saved him. When he recovered from the fright, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE". The friend who saved and slapped his best friend, asked him, "Why, after I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on a stone?" The other friend, smiling, replied: "When a friend hurts us, we should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the heart, where no wind can erase it" |
Moondance | Tuesday, February 05, 2002 - 11:52 pm     Top ten rejected valentine's day cards 10. I admire your strength, I admire your spunk But the thing I like best, is getting you drunk. 9. Our love will never become cold and hollow Unless, one day, you refuse to swallow. 8. I bought this Valentine's card at the sto. In hopes that later, you'd be my ho. 7. This feels so good, it feels so right I just wish it wasn't $250 a night. 6. You're a woman of style, you're a woman of class Especially when I'm spanking, your big-round-fat ass. 5. Before I met you, my heart was so famished But now I'm fulfilled. . . SO MAKE ME A SAMICH!!! 4. Through all the things that came to pass Our love has grown. . . but so's your ass. 3. You're a honey. . . and you're a cutie I just wished you had J-Lo's "booty". 2. I don't wanna be sappy or silly or corny So, right to the point, let's do it, I'm horny! 1. If you think that hickey looks like a blister You should check out the one that I gave to your sister |
Tksoard | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 06:52 am     MOONIE!!!!!!!!!!  |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 10:32 am     Oh dear! |
Babyruth | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 10:40 am     Sounds like a Jerry Springer line of greeting cards- lol |
Kstme | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 12:03 pm     Too funny Moondance!  |
Moondance | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 12:39 pm     I was being bad  |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 01:10 pm     LOL!! Here's a good one which was sent to me. I get a lot spam emails. (which is why I check snopes) 12-Step program for people who reflexively forward every hoax mail or chain letter they receive... 1) I will NOT get bad luck, lose my friends, or lose my mailing lists if I DON'T forward an email! 2) I will NOT hear any music or see a taco dog, if I do forward an e-mail. 3) Bill Gates is NOT going to send me money, Victoria Secret doesn't know anything about a gift certificate they're supposed to send me. 4) Ford will NOT give me a 50% discount even if I forward my e-mail to more than 50 people! 5) I will NEVER receive gift certificates, coupons, or freebies from Coca Cola, Cracker Barrel, Old Navy, or anyone else if I send an e-mail to 10 people. 6) I will NEVER see a pop-up window if I forward an e-mail . NEVER-- EVER!! 7) There is NO SUCH THING as an e-mail tracking program, and I am not STUPID enough to think that someone will send me $100 for forwarding an e-mail to 10 or more people! 8) There is NO kid with cancer through the Make-a-Wish program in England or anywhere else collecting anything! 9) The government does not have an email postage bill in Congress called 901B (or whatever they named it this week) that, if passed, will enable them to charge us 5 cents for every e-mail we send. 10) There will be NO cool dancing, singing, waving, colorful flowers, characters, or program that I will receive immediately after I forward an e-mail. NONE, ZIP, ZERO,NADA!! 11) The American Red Cross will NOT donate 50 cents to certain individual dying of some never-heard-of disease for every e-mail address I send this to. The American Red Cross RECEIVES donations. 12) And finally, I WILL NOT let others guilt me into sending things by telling me I am not their friend or that I don't believe in the right religion. If God wants to send me a message, I believe the bushes in my yard will burn before He picks up a PC to pass it on! Now, repeat this to yourself until you have it memorized, and send it along to at least 5 of your friends before the next full moon or you will surely be constipated for the next three months and all of your hair will fall out! |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 01:18 pm     **NOTE** The above 12 steps do not apply to joke emails. I love getting those. |
Moondance | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 02:00 pm     http://www.luccaco.com/terra/terra.htm Makes ya thankful!  |
Labmouse | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 03:01 pm     That was an incredible website...great message...great webpage design...goes to show what the Internet could be... |
Soeur | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 03:45 pm     Wonderful site. Now I don't think I can put my top 10 turndowns here after seeing that (it would be too irreverant)  |
Moondance | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 03:49 pm     Oh I am sorry Sis... lets start another thread for fun! |
Juju2bigdog | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 03:55 pm     BUT, Twigs, the one about clicking on the breast cancer awareness page to contribute to free mammograms for low income women is TRUE! |
Moondance | Wednesday, February 06, 2002 - 04:25 pm     http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/ http://www.hungersite.com/ http://www.therainforestsite.com/ |
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