BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004

Subject: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 02:07 PM

Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting :

".....holy shit... what a ride!!"

A

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 03:49 PM

Damn straight! But...I thought alcohol would help preserve me?

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 03:54 PM

If the saints won't -- which they probably will not -- then alcohol will, but not in the manner to which you have hitherto grown accustomed!

A

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 03:57 PM

;^)... true 'nuff... however... the metaphor also applies to moral and ethical responsibilities too...
ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 05:03 PM

The ultimate way to leave life (as we know it) is by transmuting into white light. Very few have managed it. This method leaves behind no dead body. I intend to end this life with a well-preserved body, but I'm not sure if I'll manage that or not. We'll see. As for the ride, it has been absolutely remarkable thus far. No complaints there, except that it would have been fun to have had some more happy love affairs along the way.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 05:07 PM

You're not planning to pop your clogs, are you LH? Get out there and get in a few more happy love affairs!

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: jacqui.c
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 05:45 PM

I'll go along with LH on this one. I reckon that a bit of work keeping the body fit makes the ride even better and I'm finding that it's all getting to be more fun the older I get. To my mind I'm not much more than half way there yet so there's still a lot of fun to come.

As for the happy love affairs - I think I might even have cracked that one as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 07:13 PM

No, BPL, I'm not planning to check out any time soon. :-) But I've kind of got my mind less on love affairs now than when I was younger, that's all. Not that it's not still within the realm of possibility... What I am saying is that it would have been nice to have had a lot more expertise and good sense regarding such matters back when I was in my teens and twenties, in particular! By the time I began to really understand how to court women I was almost at the point where I couldn't be bothered doing it anymore. Sheesh! I would love to be 21 again and know exactly what I know now about that and life in general.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 07:17 PM

Just for the record, although I enjoy the quote offered, I did not write it -- it was in an email, unattributed. Sorry.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: GUEST,freda
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 12:27 AM

great quote, amos. i feel very lucky - i've had a great ride (yes, very bumpy here n there) and among the dips in the water have also had a long and very happy romance, which lasted a decade and a half. i'm looking forward to a few more mountains to climb before that last gallop into the sunset!

freda

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 01:42 AM

Spontaneous combustion, that's my plan. And I certainly hope i don't have to spend my next life repeating the lessons of this one. I wouldn't want to have to start from scratch all over again.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Peter T.
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 03:32 PM

I don't know about this grave thing. My eco-side says go with the earthworms, but every animal corpse I have seen crawled over with worms, pill bugs, beetles, and the rest gives me the creeps (literally). The thought of bugs crawling all over me is too grim. Sure I will be dead, but it is still pretty gross. I am afraid cremation, wasteful as it is, is my preferred method.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 04:27 PM

Well, if you arrive at your furnace with that same exhilarated feeling Peter, then you will start off your next round with much higher energies than if you stumble in full of remorse or apathy or whatever. I think the quote still applies, whether it is a grave, a fire, or the endless sea.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 02:01 PM

I am working on avoiding the next round.

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 02:13 PM

Me too!! Bail on the Wheel!! That's my philosphy. Screw this for a game of sojers.

Love,

A

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Peter T.
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 02:33 PM

Bail on the Wheel! Where is a bumper sticker maker when you need one. Although I will miss (in no particular order and not exhaustively): the smell of mown grass, beaches, "She Loves You", popsicles and icicles, and the Shirelles.....

yours,

Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 02:36 PM

You may just be able to take all those with you, pal...who knows what miracles cascade from the depths of Aware Will?


A

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 02:57 PM

Cremation is not wasteful. It's burying people that can, in some cases, be wasteful...given a shortage of usable land. This is why they prefer to cremate people in India.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 03:40 PM

I agree that Apathy is a Drag, Amos, but I'm not sure about remorse.
We might be talking about different things, ie remorse might mean something different to you than to me. We tend, though, to be more lenient on people who have committed crimes if they show remorse than if they don't. Not that I'm saying we're all criminals in the end, just that remorse implies an awareness that your actions affect other people.

Just for the sake of argument, let's say there is a Day of Judgement. Theoretically, on this day all our deeds are weighed in the balance, to see if the good we have done outweighs the bad. Let's say I'm the one being judged, and the scales are just about even, good balancing more or less with bad. It could go either way. Would a little remorse on my part tip the balance in my favor? Would having lived more cautiously than you, or with less gusto, tip the balance against me?

Not that I don't see your point about starting the next "round" with a little momentum going for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Quote for the Day: August 3, 2004
From: Amos
Date: 05 Aug 04 - 04:10 PM

SueB:

Let's make a fine distinction, then, between remorse and regret. One is recognizing something in the past was ill-chosen or would have been better done differently (remorse). The other is the desire to change what has happened in the past.

While remorse may be indicative of sentience, regret is a waste of time since it accomplishes nothing. To face one's own past and move forward bravely is the best skill one can have, I think. Some past events are harder to face than others.

A