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The Idolatry of Nostalgia
THE LIE
Nostalgia is a temptress masquerading as fond remembrance. It is the idolatrous lust for old satisfaction. Nostalgia is the empty feeling we get when we believe this lie: that our greatest pleasure lies in past, rather than future, glories.
Thought this was interesting way to look at nostalgia...
Author Alex kocman...
THE LIE
Nostalgia is a temptress masquerading as fond remembrance. It is the idolatrous lust for old satisfaction. Nostalgia is the empty feeling we get when we believe this lie: that our greatest pleasure lies in past, rather than future, glories.
Thought this was interesting way to look at nostalgia...
Author Alex kocman...
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loulou77: The Idolatry of Nostalgia
THE LIE
Nostalgia is a temptress masquerading as fond remembrance. It is the idolatrous lust for old satisfaction. Nostalgia is the empty feeling we get when we believe this lie: that our greatest pleasure lies in past, rather than future, glories.
Thought this was interesting way to look at nostalgia...
Author Alex kocman...
THE LIE
Nostalgia is a temptress masquerading as fond remembrance. It is the idolatrous lust for old satisfaction. Nostalgia is the empty feeling we get when we believe this lie: that our greatest pleasure lies in past, rather than future, glories.
Thought this was interesting way to look at nostalgia...
Author Alex kocman...
interesting quote
Spending too much time being nostalgic is a waste of the present. Its nice sometimes for a moment to be nostalgic, but too much and you are throwing away the "now"
I would rather look forward than back
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MnanahEireann: interesting quote
Spending too much time being nostalgic is a waste of the present. Its nice sometimes for a moment to be nostalgic, but too much and you are throwing away the "now"
I would rather look forward than back
Spending too much time being nostalgic is a waste of the present. Its nice sometimes for a moment to be nostalgic, but too much and you are throwing away the "now"
I would rather look forward than back
I think that was his message going forward...but I do feel nostalgic sometimes...tempting...lol...
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Can anyone think of some good jokes lines that I can use to try to cheer up a good friend down hard with the crud? 
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Am American, a Jew, and a Chinese man walk into a bar... The barman looks up and asks "Is this some kind of bloody joke?"...
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pat8lanips: Am American, a Jew, and a Chinese man walk into a bar... The barman looks up and asks "Is this some kind of bloody joke?"...
Alright....
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True story:
Yesterday , while at a train station, I saw 2 blind people bump into each other...
1 of them apologised, while the other one accepted his apology & said "no problem".
My initial thought was, if they were both blind, how did either of them know who's fault it was.
Yesterday , while at a train station, I saw 2 blind people bump into each other...
1 of them apologised, while the other one accepted his apology & said "no problem".
My initial thought was, if they were both blind, how did either of them know who's fault it was.
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Great Ape escapes zoo... joke
As he was quietly watching television at home, a chap hears a sound on the roof of his house and rushes out to investigate. Seeing it was a fair sized gorilla tearing the shingles off his home he promptly calls up the local zoo authorities to inform them one of their animals had escaped. He is reassured that a gorilla recovery unit is on the way and is told to remain calm.
A few minutes later, an old beat up truck, displaying the Gorilla recovery unit logo on its panels, pulls up to the house. The elderly driver proceed to recover from the back of the truck, a Chihuahua dog, a pair of handcuffs, a ladder, a baseball bat and a 12 gauge shotgun.
Puzzled on how this lone elderly was to solve the problem of this gorilla who had by now torn half the roof apart, the chap ask him how he will go about doing this.
As he hands him over the .12 gauge shotgun, the zoo employee explains
the plan:
- First I'll climb up there with the ladder;
- Then I approach the gorilla and knock him off the roof using the baseball bat;
- As soon as the gorilla hits the ground, the specially trained Chihuahua dog will attack its private parts;
- When I get back on the ground, the gorilla will have lowered it's hands to it's groin area to protect itself thus making it easy for me to slip on the handcuffs;
- Then, I lead him to the truck, lock him up and take him back to the zoo...
Amazed at the procedure, the somewhat startled house owner, 'asks why he was handed the 12 gauge shotgun?
"Well... " explains the experienced gorilla retriever, It's just a precaution should thing not go exactly as planned. In the unlikely event that once on the roof the gorilla knocks me off with the baseball bat,
Shoot the dog...
As he was quietly watching television at home, a chap hears a sound on the roof of his house and rushes out to investigate. Seeing it was a fair sized gorilla tearing the shingles off his home he promptly calls up the local zoo authorities to inform them one of their animals had escaped. He is reassured that a gorilla recovery unit is on the way and is told to remain calm.
A few minutes later, an old beat up truck, displaying the Gorilla recovery unit logo on its panels, pulls up to the house. The elderly driver proceed to recover from the back of the truck, a Chihuahua dog, a pair of handcuffs, a ladder, a baseball bat and a 12 gauge shotgun.
Puzzled on how this lone elderly was to solve the problem of this gorilla who had by now torn half the roof apart, the chap ask him how he will go about doing this.
As he hands him over the .12 gauge shotgun, the zoo employee explains
the plan:
- First I'll climb up there with the ladder;
- Then I approach the gorilla and knock him off the roof using the baseball bat;
- As soon as the gorilla hits the ground, the specially trained Chihuahua dog will attack its private parts;
- When I get back on the ground, the gorilla will have lowered it's hands to it's groin area to protect itself thus making it easy for me to slip on the handcuffs;
- Then, I lead him to the truck, lock him up and take him back to the zoo...
Amazed at the procedure, the somewhat startled house owner, 'asks why he was handed the 12 gauge shotgun?
"Well... " explains the experienced gorilla retriever, It's just a precaution should thing not go exactly as planned. In the unlikely event that once on the roof the gorilla knocks me off with the baseball bat,
Shoot the dog...
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Happy new year...
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galrads: Great Ape escapes zoo... joke
As he was quietly watching television at home, a chap hears a sound on the roof of his house and rushes out to investigate. Seeing it was a fair sized gorilla tearing the shingles off his home he promptly calls up the local zoo authorities to inform them one of their animals had escaped. He is reassured that a gorilla recovery unit is on the way and is told to remain calm.
A few minutes later, an old beat up truck, displaying the Gorilla recovery unit logo on its panels, pulls up to the house. The elderly driver proceed to recover from the back of the truck, a Chihuahua dog, a pair of handcuffs, a ladder, a baseball bat and a 12 gauge shotgun.
Puzzled on how this lone elderly was to solve the problem of this gorilla who had by now torn half the roof apart, the chap ask him how he will go about doing this.
As he hands him over the .12 gauge shotgun, the zoo employee explains
the plan:
- First I'll climb up there with the ladder;
- Then I approach the gorilla and knock him off the roof using the baseball bat;
- As soon as the gorilla hits the ground, the specially trained Chihuahua dog will attack its private parts;
- When I get back on the ground, the gorilla will have lowered it's hands to it's groin area to protect itself thus making it easy for me to slip on the handcuffs;
- Then, I lead him to the truck, lock him up and take him back to the zoo...
Amazed at the procedure, the somewhat startled house owner, 'asks why he was handed the 12 gauge shotgun?
"Well... " explains the experienced gorilla retriever, It's just a precaution should thing not go exactly as planned. In the unlikely event that once on the roof the gorilla knocks me off with the baseball bat,
Shoot the dog...
As he was quietly watching television at home, a chap hears a sound on the roof of his house and rushes out to investigate. Seeing it was a fair sized gorilla tearing the shingles off his home he promptly calls up the local zoo authorities to inform them one of their animals had escaped. He is reassured that a gorilla recovery unit is on the way and is told to remain calm.
A few minutes later, an old beat up truck, displaying the Gorilla recovery unit logo on its panels, pulls up to the house. The elderly driver proceed to recover from the back of the truck, a Chihuahua dog, a pair of handcuffs, a ladder, a baseball bat and a 12 gauge shotgun.
Puzzled on how this lone elderly was to solve the problem of this gorilla who had by now torn half the roof apart, the chap ask him how he will go about doing this.
As he hands him over the .12 gauge shotgun, the zoo employee explains
the plan:
- First I'll climb up there with the ladder;
- Then I approach the gorilla and knock him off the roof using the baseball bat;
- As soon as the gorilla hits the ground, the specially trained Chihuahua dog will attack its private parts;
- When I get back on the ground, the gorilla will have lowered it's hands to it's groin area to protect itself thus making it easy for me to slip on the handcuffs;
- Then, I lead him to the truck, lock him up and take him back to the zoo...
Amazed at the procedure, the somewhat startled house owner, 'asks why he was handed the 12 gauge shotgun?
"Well... " explains the experienced gorilla retriever, It's just a precaution should thing not go exactly as planned. In the unlikely event that once on the roof the gorilla knocks me off with the baseball bat,
Shoot the dog...
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Real Life Facebook.... thank you Florida.
These people talk a bit odd, to me. Also, warning.... contains Facebook language...
These people talk a bit odd, to me. Also, warning.... contains Facebook language...
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It would nice if the mods were to add the Emoticons back into the mailbox again.It seems so blank in that particular area without them.
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Dedovix: Happy new year...
Happy New Year to you Dedo.....
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Just got through seeing a guy backing his truck up to a fence of a public park throwing a pit bull puppy over the fence and when the puppy landed it's leg had been broken.
People like that should be taken to the highest peak of a mountain and dropped off or dropped into a vat of lye.
But of course the guy will most likely just get a slap on the wrist and have to pay a small find as often happens.
People like that should be taken to the highest peak of a mountain and dropped off or dropped into a vat of lye.
But of course the guy will most likely just get a slap on the wrist and have to pay a small find as often happens.
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Malicious gossip....
If you have a gripe or have heard a rumour, take it to the person concerned to verify.
If one slings enough mud at the other(particularly behind the scenes), eventually some of it will stick unfortunately.
Don't be the one responsible.
If you have a gripe or have heard a rumour, take it to the person concerned to verify.
If one slings enough mud at the other(particularly behind the scenes), eventually some of it will stick unfortunately.
Don't be the one responsible.
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BerrySmoothie: Malicious gossip....
If you have a gripe or have heard a rumour, take it to the person concerned to verify.
If one slings enough mud at the other(particularly behind the scenes), eventually some of it will stick unfortunately.
Don't be the one responsible.
If you have a gripe or have heard a rumour, take it to the person concerned to verify.
If one slings enough mud at the other(particularly behind the scenes), eventually some of it will stick unfortunately.
Don't be the one responsible.
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It's foggy and raining here.
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What did i miss on the "One Track Mind" thread 
anyone in jail 
I'm never going to sleep again pffft!!
anyone in jail I'm never going to sleep again pffft!!
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