A few random thoughts at 2 AM
-
I find myself keeping my daughter home from kindergarden more and more these days. The more I look out at the chaotic and perilous state of the world the more I realize that quality time with loved ones is the only valuable commodity left. Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. Perhaps I'm just depressed. When I was young I used to wish I could just wave a magic wand and send all the evil people of the world to Pluto. Now that I'm older I think there would only be a few thousand people left on earth. Who would care for all the babies? The greatest war I'll ever fight is keeping the evil of the world out of my children's hearts. Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Short of moving out into a shack in the middle of nowhere, what can you do though? It's only a matter of time I guess. But God save the ba***rd who deliberately tries to corrupt them before they've had a chance to enjoy their childhood. Anyway. Just thinking out loud here. Hope I didn't bring you down. :((
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Don't give in to the fear mongers. You won't watch your family starve to death because a hailstorm devasted the harvest. You won't watch half of your town dying because of the black death. Your town won't be burned down to "capture of a strategic waypoint". To make people follow like sheep you need just one thing: fear.*) That's why it's still so popular. How many news reports about successful huge parties without casualities have you seen in the last week? How many reports about a "day in the office" where no plane crashed in? It's good that you spend more time with your family. But don't, please don't, teach your daugther to live in a world of fear. Fear is highly contagious, you know. *) guilt works as well - see Sarte "the flies". But fear is easier nowadays...
If you go to war, you will destroy a great country a stoned greek chick to the richest man of the world
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygen -
I find myself keeping my daughter home from kindergarden more and more these days. The more I look out at the chaotic and perilous state of the world the more I realize that quality time with loved ones is the only valuable commodity left. Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. Perhaps I'm just depressed. When I was young I used to wish I could just wave a magic wand and send all the evil people of the world to Pluto. Now that I'm older I think there would only be a few thousand people left on earth. Who would care for all the babies? The greatest war I'll ever fight is keeping the evil of the world out of my children's hearts. Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Short of moving out into a shack in the middle of nowhere, what can you do though? It's only a matter of time I guess. But God save the ba***rd who deliberately tries to corrupt them before they've had a chance to enjoy their childhood. Anyway. Just thinking out loud here. Hope I didn't bring you down. :((
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Stop drinking and go to bed . Am I the only one forever playing catch up with technology , while all the juicy opportunites keep rolling by ?
-
Don't give in to the fear mongers. You won't watch your family starve to death because a hailstorm devasted the harvest. You won't watch half of your town dying because of the black death. Your town won't be burned down to "capture of a strategic waypoint". To make people follow like sheep you need just one thing: fear.*) That's why it's still so popular. How many news reports about successful huge parties without casualities have you seen in the last week? How many reports about a "day in the office" where no plane crashed in? It's good that you spend more time with your family. But don't, please don't, teach your daugther to live in a world of fear. Fear is highly contagious, you know. *) guilt works as well - see Sarte "the flies". But fear is easier nowadays...
If you go to war, you will destroy a great country a stoned greek chick to the richest man of the world
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenI'm not really afraid. I just have what I consider to be a healthy respect for the unexpectedness of death. I don't want to be one of these guys saying, "I wish I would have said 'I love you' when I had the chance.", or to die and have people wonder if I knew how they really felt.
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
-
Stop drinking and go to bed . Am I the only one forever playing catch up with technology , while all the juicy opportunites keep rolling by ?
-
Hi Kevnar It is a sick world indeed out there today :( Sometimes I wonder if life was infinitely better 1500 years ago :( Nish
Author of the romantic comedy Summer Love and Some more Cricket [New Win] Review by Shog9 Click here for review[NW]
Nishant S wrote: Sometimes I wonder if life was infinitely better 1500 years ago Oh please. Life was a lot harder, a lot more barbaric and far more dangerous back then. You lived to 30, you died from everyday diseases, you broke your back either farming or gathering food, you woke up with the sun, slept when it set. You married at 15, child at 16 and many more before 20. Of course there are problems in our world and us first world people don't see the half of it. But things are better off and I doubt one of us could survive back in those days.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
-
I find myself keeping my daughter home from kindergarden more and more these days. The more I look out at the chaotic and perilous state of the world the more I realize that quality time with loved ones is the only valuable commodity left. Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. Perhaps I'm just depressed. When I was young I used to wish I could just wave a magic wand and send all the evil people of the world to Pluto. Now that I'm older I think there would only be a few thousand people left on earth. Who would care for all the babies? The greatest war I'll ever fight is keeping the evil of the world out of my children's hearts. Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Short of moving out into a shack in the middle of nowhere, what can you do though? It's only a matter of time I guess. But God save the ba***rd who deliberately tries to corrupt them before they've had a chance to enjoy their childhood. Anyway. Just thinking out loud here. Hope I didn't bring you down. :((
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
The world has always been this way. My advice, spend as much time with the people you love and care for as you can. But don't smother them with love. The world is an evil place, they have to learn this sometime - it's the only thing that will give them a fighting chance. Michael 'War is at best barbarism...Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.' - General William Sherman, 1879
-
I find myself keeping my daughter home from kindergarden more and more these days. The more I look out at the chaotic and perilous state of the world the more I realize that quality time with loved ones is the only valuable commodity left. Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. Perhaps I'm just depressed. When I was young I used to wish I could just wave a magic wand and send all the evil people of the world to Pluto. Now that I'm older I think there would only be a few thousand people left on earth. Who would care for all the babies? The greatest war I'll ever fight is keeping the evil of the world out of my children's hearts. Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Short of moving out into a shack in the middle of nowhere, what can you do though? It's only a matter of time I guess. But God save the ba***rd who deliberately tries to corrupt them before they've had a chance to enjoy their childhood. Anyway. Just thinking out loud here. Hope I didn't bring you down. :((
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Let her go to school for fucks sake. It was the best time of my life. Away from the boring sameness of home. A chance to learn and to play with friends your own age. My 6 years old son doesn't say this too me, but I know he feels the same. He loves his time at school too much. As for you or you child being killed. Fuck, it could happen anywhere anytime. If you spent your life living the what-if's you will never leave home or do anything. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
-
Let her go to school for fucks sake. It was the best time of my life. Away from the boring sameness of home. A chance to learn and to play with friends your own age. My 6 years old son doesn't say this too me, but I know he feels the same. He loves his time at school too much. As for you or you child being killed. Fuck, it could happen anywhere anytime. If you spent your life living the what-if's you will never leave home or do anything. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
-
I find myself keeping my daughter home from kindergarden more and more these days. The more I look out at the chaotic and perilous state of the world the more I realize that quality time with loved ones is the only valuable commodity left. Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. Perhaps I'm just depressed. When I was young I used to wish I could just wave a magic wand and send all the evil people of the world to Pluto. Now that I'm older I think there would only be a few thousand people left on earth. Who would care for all the babies? The greatest war I'll ever fight is keeping the evil of the world out of my children's hearts. Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Short of moving out into a shack in the middle of nowhere, what can you do though? It's only a matter of time I guess. But God save the ba***rd who deliberately tries to corrupt them before they've had a chance to enjoy their childhood. Anyway. Just thinking out loud here. Hope I didn't bring you down. :((
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Kevnar wrote: Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. It's the cycle of life , you known , from immemorial times to today , in the past we could easily be killed by the Plague , Leper or on the Crusades , people easily died from the most various diseases in the *civilized world* , truly the planet earth never was a safe place to born , but the human race survived , even battling each other , we survived , big deal, nowadays on the tecnology era , with better machines , the medicine much more developed , with many things to increase our quality of life ,we are victims of our own evolution , with nuclear weapons who could easily wipe out an city or a state , but the keypoint is that we survive , no matter the mistakes we made , the crimes that we commit against the nature , since we are the parasites of the planet earth , who cares ... live day by day, take care of your loved ones , don't put your children in a cage, show how is the world and what could be the paper he/she could represent on the future's society, don't worry too much , let life follow their normal lifecycle, afterall is what we all do , and we aren't so bad , are we ? Cheers,João Vaz And if your dream is to care for your family, to put food on the table, to provide them with an education and a good home, then maybe suffering through an endless, pointless, boring job will seem to have purpose. And you will realize how even a rock can change the world, simply by remaining obstinately stationary.-Shog9 Remember just because a good thing comes to an end, doesn't mean that the next one can't be better.-Chris Meech
-
I find myself keeping my daughter home from kindergarden more and more these days. The more I look out at the chaotic and perilous state of the world the more I realize that quality time with loved ones is the only valuable commodity left. Any day now you could either be killed in a terrorist attack (ie Sept 11), or burned up in a night club in some freaky flash fire, or be killed in a car wreck, or whatever. I feel like the peace and security of my family is like sitting in the tranquil little eye of a global storm. Perhaps I'm just depressed. When I was young I used to wish I could just wave a magic wand and send all the evil people of the world to Pluto. Now that I'm older I think there would only be a few thousand people left on earth. Who would care for all the babies? The greatest war I'll ever fight is keeping the evil of the world out of my children's hearts. Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Short of moving out into a shack in the middle of nowhere, what can you do though? It's only a matter of time I guess. But God save the ba***rd who deliberately tries to corrupt them before they've had a chance to enjoy their childhood. Anyway. Just thinking out loud here. Hope I didn't bring you down. :((
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Their innnocence and purity is one of the most precious treasures in the world. Absolutely. And this need to be protected, not drummed out of them at an early age under the guise of "we need to prepare them for the real world". What we need is a generation that says "the real world needs to become more innocent and pure". Have you looked at a Waldorf Kindergarten? You might be very pleasantly surprised. Marc Help! I'm an AI running around in someone's f*cked up universe simulator.
Sensitivity and ethnic diversity means celebrating difference, not hiding from it. - Christian Graus
Every line of code is a liability - Taka Muraoka
Microsoft deliberately adds arbitrary layers of complexity to make it difficult to deliver Windows features on non-Windows platforms--Microsoft's "Halloween files" -
I'm not really afraid. I just have what I consider to be a healthy respect for the unexpectedness of death. I don't want to be one of these guys saying, "I wish I would have said 'I love you' when I had the chance.", or to die and have people wonder if I knew how they really felt.
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Then say "I love you" today and enjoy life :rose: Elaine The tigress is here :-D
-
Nishant S wrote: Sometimes I wonder if life was infinitely better 1500 years ago Oh please. Life was a lot harder, a lot more barbaric and far more dangerous back then. You lived to 30, you died from everyday diseases, you broke your back either farming or gathering food, you woke up with the sun, slept when it set. You married at 15, child at 16 and many more before 20. Of course there are problems in our world and us first world people don't see the half of it. But things are better off and I doubt one of us could survive back in those days.
Paul Watson
Bluegrass
Cape Town, South AfricaMacbeth muttered: I am in blood / Stepped in so far, that should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o'er DavidW wrote: You are totally mad. Nice.
-
I don't think there was ever a time in history when the world was a happy place. There have always been mad men out there who would kill you just because your skin was a different color, or if you prayed to a different god, or if you had food/water/money/land/information/a beautiful wife and they wanted it. Unless of course you believe in the Creation story. I suppose Adam and Eve had it pretty sweet for a while there.
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion
Kevnar wrote: Unless of course you believe in the Creation story. I suppose Adam and Eve had it pretty sweet for a while there. Yep. And if you believe that portion of the Bible, you're likely to believe the part that says it'll eventually get a whole lot worse for seven years, but afterward God will make things even better than Adam and Eve had it! John :D
-
Let her go to school for fucks sake. It was the best time of my life. Away from the boring sameness of home. A chance to learn and to play with friends your own age. My 6 years old son doesn't say this too me, but I know he feels the same. He loves his time at school too much. As for you or you child being killed. Fuck, it could happen anywhere anytime. If you spent your life living the what-if's you will never leave home or do anything. Michael Martin Australia mjm68@tpg.com.au "I personally love it because I can get as down and dirty as I want on the backend, while also being able to dabble with fun scripting and presentation games on the front end." - Chris Maunder 15/07/2002
I never said I've been keeping her home from school constantly did I? I keep her home with me maybe one day a month, sometimes 2 if she's not feeling well. Be careful you're not assuming too much before you start swearing at someone. And like I said above. I'm not particularly worried about death. I'm worried about the amount and the quality of time I get to spend with loved ones between now and then.
"How many more people have to die before no one ever dies again?" - Daniel Haley, The Onion