Walie
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where did i say you can buy satisfaction? If i had put in 100 hours of overtime at whatever job i did so I could buy whatever i wanted, i would be damn well sure proud of the fact that i worked that hard and had the commitment to do it
Time+ability=enthusiast...so you're telling me that for example if a dude has been confined to a wheel chair for his entire life and absolutely loves cars, but since he can't change his own oil due to being in a wheelchair he'll NEVER be a true automotive enthusiast? That's a bunch of bullcrap
Originally Posted by cash68 /img/forum/go_quote.gif You don't get it. Time invested = ability. Time+Ability= what an enthusiast really is. It has nothing to do with entitlement, and everything to do with understanding the fundamentals of vehicle systems, understanding how things work together, understanding how to improve those systems, and so on. You just cannot 'buy' satisfaction. That you are arguing that you can is why our society is so hell bent on consumerism; people think you can merely purchase happiness. You can't. You can earn it, but by slaving away to make money, you can't really trade that for much satisfaction. Real satisfaction comes in creating/restoring/modifying things, and changing the world around you. I don't mean purely physical objects either, this could also apply to our society, communities, government, etc. |
where did i say you can buy satisfaction? If i had put in 100 hours of overtime at whatever job i did so I could buy whatever i wanted, i would be damn well sure proud of the fact that i worked that hard and had the commitment to do it
Time+ability=enthusiast...so you're telling me that for example if a dude has been confined to a wheel chair for his entire life and absolutely loves cars, but since he can't change his own oil due to being in a wheelchair he'll NEVER be a true automotive enthusiast? That's a bunch of bullcrap