[steviebee]

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Originally Posted by JimminyC /img/forum/go_quote.gif Thanks for that post VinylRipper. Got me thinking. Many congrats to alrose312 on the new addition!

x2 on both. Great post VR: it's way too easy to simply spendspendspend. Then you end up on a Debt Management Programme (personal experience here).

And a new Head Fier hits the sheets! Congrats!

 

[porschemad911]

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Originally Posted by TheVinylRipper /img/forum/go_quote.gif I have realized sometime over the last twenty years or so, that the wanting is very often better than the having. As soon as you get that which you want, you then start wanting something else.

Yeah, that's one of the greatest curses of the human condition. We consume and consume, and yet are never satisfied.

You know, it's funny how sometimes I wake up and see clearly. That life's not about stuff. How can I soar like an eagle with the lead weight that is the ever-chasing, never satisfied mindset weighing me down like an anchor?

In my heart I know that creating and giving are what I have been created to do. I mean, music's truly wonderful, but my voice was a free gift, my guitar cost me $150 and they bring me more pleasure than all my audio gear.

Everyone I meet seems to be searching for something more, from almost the day they're born until the day they die. The tragedy is that we can find it, and yet fall back into worshipping the searching for the truth more than the found truth. Or give up even searching, and just settle for this consumer mindset as being all there is.

Anyway, I apologise for getting off topic, but what you wrote struck a chord with me TheVinylRipper.

 

[TheVinylRipper]

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Originally Posted by porschemad911 /img/forum/go_quote.gif You know, it's funny how sometimes I wake up and see clearly. That life's not about stuff. How can I soar like an eagle with the lead weight that is the ever-chasing, never satisfied mindset weighing me down like an anchor? In my heart I know that creating and giving are what I have been created to do. I mean, music's truly wonderful, but my voice was a free gift, my guitar cost me $150 and they bring me more pleasure than all my audio gear. Everyone I meet seems to be searching for something more, from almost the day they're born until the day they die. The tragedy is that we can find it, and yet fall back into worshipping the searching for the truth more than the found truth. Or give up even searching, and just settle for this consumer mindset as being all there is. Anyway, I apologise for getting off topic, but what you wrote struck a chord with me TheVinylRipper.

LOL, I have a black belt in thread drift..

A lot of us are searching for meaning in a life that often seems meaningless.

One of the few advantages of advanced age is that it gives one perspective.

Well, that and the senior citizens discount..

And come to think of it, the cops quit hassling me for weird behavior and funny smells quite a while ago..

I've spent my entire life in an autodidactic obsessive pursuit of knowledge and now I feel obligated to pass on that knowledge to those who might profit from it.

A zygote is but a gamete's way of producing more gametes.

 

[TheVinylRipper]

We'll call you when you're six years old
And drag you to the factory
To train your brain for eighteen years
With promise of security
But then you're free
And forty years you waste to chase the dollar sign
So you may die in Florida
At the pleasant age of sixty nine

The water's getting hard to drink
We've mangled up the country side
The air will choke you when you breathe
We're all committing suicide
But it's alright
It's progress folks keep pushin' till your body rots
Will strip the earth of all it's green
And then divide her into parking lots

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok

You're free to speak your mind my friend
As long as you agree with me
Don't criticize the father land
Or those who shape your destiny
'Cause if you do
You'll lose your job your mind and all the friends you knew
We'll send out all our boys in blue
They'll find a way to silence you

But there's nothing you and I can do
You and I are only two
What's right and wrong is hard to say
Forget about it for today
We'll stick our heads into the sand
Just pretend that all is grand
Then hope that everything turns out ok

John Kay, Steppenwolf

The Ostrich

It's not commonly known, but John Kay escaped from behind the Iron Curtain with his parents when he was a child.