Re: Today's Good News Reply #250 – 2015-04-07, 15:26:59 Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2015-04-02, 23:17:34Would you kindly point out an example of what "reasoning out our existence" is? And, then, give a few examples of what you mean by rationality.Why there is something, instead of nothing (and not the vice versa you adhere to), without reverting to 'whim' (which you love so well). EDIT: Oh, I meant 'abraso' of course.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #251 – 2015-04-07, 17:44:46 Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2015-04-02, 18:17:34I, too, wish you well, James. And, as someone who's been "reading" James Joyce's Finnegans Wake for more than 40 yearsYou're a slow "reader", aren't you?
Re: Today's Good News Reply #252 – 2015-04-07, 19:09:52 Maybe he has a lazy streak and why he is a slow reader?
Re: Today's Good News Reply #253 – 2015-04-08, 06:37:55 Maybe I like to understand what I'm reading… (When I'm really drunk, I can almost understand it! But I don't like to get really drunk, very often.) Has anyone else here "read" that book?
Re: Today's Good News Reply #256 – 2015-04-15, 13:34:13 Quote from: jax on 2015-04-08, 10:43:26Nope. I'm waiting for the movie.Wait no longer![video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cibQA_LNe9s[/video]Or just give this a gander.QuoteSir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen- 4core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy 5isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor 6had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse 7to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper 8all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to 9tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a 10kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in 11vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a 12peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory 13end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface. Last Edit: 2015-04-15, 13:51:22 by Jimbro3738
Re: Today's Good News Reply #257 – 2015-04-16, 02:47:30 Quote from: OakdaleFTL on 2015-04-08, 06:37:55(When I'm really drunk, I can almost understand it! But I don't like to get really drunk, very often.) Has anyone else here "read" that book? Difficult reading doesn't say much, it is just difficult and non-interpretive to the individual reader. Difficult is not good in nature and less good in literature...yes, I read it--hated it. Keep thinking about it for another forty years my friend and you will still get nowhere, I guarantee it.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #258 – 2015-04-16, 05:08:08 Quote from: jseaton2311 on 2015-04-15, 18:47:30Difficult is not good in nature and less good in literature...yes, I read it--hated it.Your first quoted phrase is mysterious… Would you care to elaborate?The second conjunct is certainly arguable. But I'll let it pass.That you hated it, I don't doubt. But did you actually read it through? That I do doubt! (I mean no criticism by that…) And your understanding may have been hampered by a lack of knowledge and training!For instance: Are you familiar with Medieval vocal musical notation systems? I'm not sure, yet, that I hate it. But I've liked some of it…I specially liked this true story it gave me:Having got a hundred pages into James Joyce's Finnegans Wake, I was intrigued. Before book II, I was merely bemused: It was more than passing-strange! Shortly into that second section began, I'd found an acceptable way to read this book: Drink bourbon!Somewhat further in, I found that only a sufficient amount of bourbon would do… It had to be fairly precise: Else the pages blurred to unreadable.Long story short: The Penguin Centennial Edition had more than a few double-stamped pages. That I could make my eyes bring them into focus with bourbon was a practical joke (on me…) that still makes me chuckle!
Re: Today's Good News Reply #259 – 2015-04-16, 08:40:35 Our bits of learning lend little compass to any understanding of any thing. Indeed, we both seem daft. The manypointing proselytizing essays asexculpatory evidence of sense are meager, and mostly beside the point. Certainly, there is a compromise? Joint,honest and sincere testament, hence,the Gospel truth:Well. I'll finish this later… Or one or more of you can!I'm tired and need sleep, Last Edit: 2015-04-16, 22:13:18 by OakdaleFTL
Re: Today's Good News Reply #260 – 2015-04-28, 15:39:39 Anyone that knows me will know this is a matter dear to my heart.Bournemouth will be promoted to the England Pre oar League (*)It is a remarkable feat for a very small club. They play like tigers.(*) unless they loose their 19 goal difference advantage in the last remaining game of the season. Last Edit: 2015-04-28, 16:45:58 by string
Re: Today's Good News Reply #262 – 2015-05-04, 07:20:56 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-32417699 QuotePhysical activity has little role in tackling obesity - and instead public health messages should squarely focus on unhealthy eating, doctors say.In an editorial in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, three international experts said it was time to "bust the myth" about exercise.They said while activity was a key part of staving off diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and dementia, its impact on obesity was minimal.Hear, hear!
Re: Today's Good News Reply #263 – 2015-05-04, 21:33:42 I went to the gym this morning for some healthy exercise and stopped on the way back for a burger and fries. I feel a bit sluggish.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #264 – 2015-05-05, 06:39:38 You would never keep up with my new hiking boots.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #265 – 2015-05-08, 02:06:04 It's midday, and soon I will decide what I will eat for lunch.All over the world there are those who don't make that decision. The best they can hope for is to discover whether or not they WILL eat.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #266 – 2015-05-08, 06:36:24 Yep and Jimbro and his good lady have to decide regularly whether McDonald's or Burger King.....
Re: Today's Good News Reply #267 – 2015-05-08, 18:50:34 Quote from: rjhowie on 2015-05-08, 06:36:24Yep and Jimbro and his good lady have to decide regularly whether McDonald's or Burger King.....Says the UK's version of "Jared" of Subway.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #268 – 2015-05-17, 15:01:35 Oh (groan) an ex-colonist working up to trying to be intellectually satirically flippant! Wonder what he will come up with next? Maybe giving up trying to rule the world, live off wars and deal with the inside of the country? Nah too practical.
Re: Today's Good News Reply #269 – 2015-06-29, 10:50:14 There's good news in the worst of places, hence, The Bush Bazaar!http://www.dawn.com/news/1097264
Re: Today's Good News Reply #270 – 2015-06-29, 23:24:43 Quote from: string on 2015-04-28, 15:39:39Anyone that knows me will know this is a matter dear to my heart.Bournemouth will be promoted to the England Pre oar League (*)It is a remarkable feat for a very small club. They play like tigers.(*) unless they loose their 19 goal difference advantage in the last remaining game of the season.Congrats string!
Re: Today's Good News Reply #272 – 2015-06-30, 20:13:09 Quote from: string on 2015-04-28, 10:39:39Bournemouth will be promoted to the England Pre oar League (*)I'm at a loss. What is a Pre oar league?
Re: Today's Good News Reply #273 – 2015-07-04, 01:44:16 Today is July 4, and those of us from the U.S.A. will celebrate in as many diverse ways as there are diverse Americans among us.One or two of us, who believe all Americans are the same, will find a reason to say mean-spirited and ignorant and ungrammatical things about America and its customs and for that I am sorry.The U.S. is a magnificent country whose people and government generally behave in a humane and sensible manner and a country to which the world owes much. Rejoice in your milestone in your diverse ways: with quiet contemplation, with prayer, with parades, or with a little bombast if the fancy takes you. You've earned it. Last Edit: 2015-07-04, 04:04:03 by tt92
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