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« Reply #1095 on: July 04, 2012, 06:24:32 PM » |
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Given my undying positive attitude, a good reason to be cheerful is just being alive. As an atheist I value this life, the only life I have, and I do my best to live it to the fullest and be as good as I can be every day. My chances of actually being here are so small that sometimes I marvel at my own existence. I feel very fortunate to be privileged enough to live in a western country where I can have food and water at any time, and that I have a good job that helps me pay the bills.
I have my health, family, and friends. And most of all, my wife. She's the best.
These are all reasons to be cheerful.
-Terry
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« Reply #1096 on: July 04, 2012, 06:38:37 PM » |
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Spent the day swimming in the river with Mom, Mom's SO, and the Rottweiler. Then came home and had ribs on the grill. A very good day indeed.
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« Reply #1097 on: July 05, 2012, 12:00:05 PM » |
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I'm hoping to find some reasons soon. Been a while since I've had any.  |
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 I am familiar with carpentry and I don't know who my father is. So, am I the messiah? I don't know, I could be, I'm not ruling it out. -Charlie Kelly "I support and oppose many things, but not strongly enough to pick up a pen." -Bender "Bending" Rodriguez |
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« Reply #1098 on: July 05, 2012, 01:10:26 PM » |
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Dear Husband's sister is having a baby! More cousins for wee man! Yaaaay!
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"We’ve thought of life by analogy with a journey, with pilgrimage which had a serious purpose at the end, and the THING was to get to that end; success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven after you’re dead. But, we missed the point the whole way along; It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or dance, while the music was being played." - Alan Watts
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« Reply #1099 on: July 05, 2012, 01:48:45 PM » |
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Yay! Congrats DJ, YA, and WM.
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« Reply #1100 on: July 05, 2012, 02:07:38 PM » |
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I'm hoping to find some reasons soon. Been a while since I've had any. It pleases His Grayness that you find being cheery unreasonable. There is hope for humanity, after all... *Musing* Maybe delay the asteroid impact a little... */Musing* |
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« Reply #1101 on: July 05, 2012, 07:28:37 PM » |
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Dear Husband's sister is having a baby! More cousins for wee man! Yaaaay!
Congratulations! I'm guessing she's due around January, so a snow-baby. For my part in cheerfulness, I saw a podiatrist today who said I had the feet of a 20 yr old. I'd rather have the knees of a 20 year old, but I'm happy with young feet. |
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« Reply #1103 on: July 06, 2012, 01:13:46 AM » |
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^ Did you get a D, too? Yesterday the charity I support took some disabled people to an excellent local adventure centre. The staff went several extra miles to give them a good time, but this beats all:  This lad is wheelchair bound and has no leg function at all. He took it into his head he was going to ring the bell at the top of the 40 foot climbing wall. This was impossible with the normal safety harness, but the instructors rigged up some extra kit and literally hauled him up. At the same time they let him get the impression that he was doing most of the climbing himself. When he rang that bell, the cheers could be heard for miles! That's one very proud and happy lad. |
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« Reply #1104 on: July 06, 2012, 08:28:52 AM » |
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Git, that choked me up a little. That is awesome! I took "Adventure Experience" in high school (basically a rock climbing gym class) and I have to say that ringing that bell at the top is one of the best feelings ever even for someone who is able bodied.
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« Reply #1105 on: July 06, 2012, 02:41:57 PM » |
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^ Did you get a D, too? Yesterday the charity I support took some disabled people to an excellent local adventure centre. The staff went several extra miles to give them a good time, but this beats all: This lad is wheelchair bound and has no leg function at all. He took it into his head he was going to ring the bell at the top of the 40 foot climbing wall. This was impossible with the normal safety harness, but the instructors rigged up some extra kit and literally hauled him up. At the same time they let him get the impression that he was doing most of the climbing himself. When he rang that bell, the cheers could be heard for miles! That's one very proud and happy lad. That's so cool OG. They should put those types of stories in the media instead of the kind of stuff they put there. Yes, I got a D. Still have a slight chance of getting a C with a retest, but I'm not counting on it. I put that in this cheerful thread because it's objective data that something else is going on rather than just me.  |
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"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." - Douglas Adams
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."- Seneca the Younger
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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance… it is the illusion of knowledge. - Stephen Hawking
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« Reply #1106 on: July 06, 2012, 04:24:57 PM » |
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Two words: Sung Kang I am seriously in love with him. |
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"Law 35- You got to go with what works." - Robin Lefler Wiggum:"You have that much faith in me, Homer?" Homer:"No! Faith is what you have in things that don't exist. Your awesomeness is real." “I was thinking that perhaps this thing called God does not exist. Because He cannot save any one of us. No matter how we pray, He doesn’t mend our wounds. No matter how we plead, He doesn’t strike down our enemies. There hasn’t been an instance where He has cured our sick. Powerless, we can only wait to be tossed onto the dirt of a foreign land. He doesn’t have a thread of spiritual existence. If only there were a shadow, a whisper. But I haven’t felt Him once.” — 稲荷家房之介 - Giglio  |
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« Reply #1107 on: July 06, 2012, 06:15:21 PM » |
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Old Git, that picture and story REALLY made me smile.  Thanks for that. I needed it. |
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 "Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb we are bound to others. By every crime and act of kindness we birth our future." - Cloud Atlas "To live in the hearts of those we leave behind is to never die." -Carl Sagan |
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« Reply #1108 on: July 07, 2012, 07:07:57 AM » |
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I have somebody looking a Vinnie tomorrow. She wants a horse to take on the trails and just ride for fun. Crossing all of my available appendages that this goes well.
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« Reply #1109 on: July 07, 2012, 07:11:15 AM » |
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I shall ask the FSM to cross His Noodly Appendage for you, too.
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Touched by His Noodly Appendage.
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