Philosophy thread

[Sandman]

I've always thought of Oxygen as a bull in a china shop among elements. A reckless and prolific lover (if you will) who uses up other elements, often in an explosive or corrosive manner. Always combining to force change, and - when it comes to materials we use to build our structures, combining to wreck and ruin.

Hydrogen, with its simple structure and single electron is much more that I would describe as the pure, though hugely violent in it's own potential. It takes two of them to combine with oxygen in a unique relationship to form water - a substance almost literally bursting with harnessed energy, which behaves in a manner unlike pretty much everything else in the universe - and thank God (if you'll pardon the old fashioned expression) that it does.

A volatile ménage à trois rather than a traditional romantic love story.

Water is the life-bringer. It is also the ultimate destroyer of everything we see around us. If we were ever to disappear (leave the planet or die out) it would be water that cleanses the world of our visible presence over millions of years, just as it wears down the mightiest ranges of extinct volcanoes or the tallest of mountain ranges. One drop at a time, one ice crystal at a time.

Water giveth, and water taketh away, to once again use that old fashioned language.

That is absolutely beautiful Lardi. May your open mind and acceptance of life give you eternal peace.

 

[Sandman]

After reading your theory she turned a funny colour and had to go for a lie down.

A bit like the match thread then?

 

[Sandman]

"A good relationship is based on give and take"

Q: Why doesn't this sentence make sense?

 

[lardiman]

It appears to make sense, though not perhaps if taken literally.

Generally, I think the majority of relationships are improved if both partners recognise that some ground must be given from what each would consider the ideal (from their own point of view). Any relationship where one party has everything their way and the other party is genuinely happy with that, would not be a very healthy one in my view.
The best relationships in my experience are those where giving to please the other party is joy in itself - equally for both sides.

 

[Sandman]

It appears to make sense, though not perhaps if taken literally.

Generally, I think the majority of relationships are improved if both partners recognise that some ground must be given from what each would consider the ideal (from their own point of view). Any relationship where one party has everything their way and the other party is genuinely happy with that, would not be a very healthy one in my view.
The best relationships in my experience are those where giving to please the other party is joy in itself - equally for both sides.

Is the correct answer. Give and earn would be correct, for if we take that puts us in conflict with the first rule of thermodynamics, basically, you cannot get something for nothing.

 

[The Penguin]

Is the correct answer. Give and earn would be correct, for if we take that puts us in conflict with the first rule of thermodynamics, basically, you cannot get something for nothing.

Nothing for nothing and precious little for sixpence.

 

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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

 

[The Penguin]

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

HELP

John Lennon

 

[Sandman]

HELP

John Lennon

A spit out coffee moment for me.

 

[Sandman]

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[Sandman]

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Marie Curie

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Marie Curie is one of the few inventors that died from cancer, though she didn't help matters by carrying radio active isotopes in her pockets. The current chances of someone in the Western World developing cancer is 50%, but just 2,8% for inventors. Inventors also live longer and have better long term health. My research into this helped me to find the coding of cancer.

Research papers available.[/QUOTE]

 

[Sandman]

Nothing for nothing and precious little for sixpence.

When I was a kid, for sixpence you could go to the cinema, buy a bag of chips and still have enough left for your bus fare home.

ps. And Wagon Wheels were a metre in diameter.

 

[The Penguin]

When I was a kid, for sixpence you could go to the cinema, buy a bag of chips and still have enough left for your bus fare home.

ps. And Wagon Wheels were a metre in diameter.

Showing your age. The saying was first recorded in Punch in 1869, and in that year the aforementioned items would not leave you enough for your bus fare home.

 

[Sandman]

Showing your age. The saying was first recorded in Punch in 1869, and in that year the aforementioned items would not leave you enough for your bus fare home.

My body may show the ravages of age, but I think no differently than I did 50 years ago. If I became a pop star that would be a great swan song, much more edifying that a 5 years music career that ends at the age of 25 and then you spend the rest of your life trying to better it. I mean to go out on a high.

 

[The Penguin]

My body may show the ravages of age, but I think no differently than I did 50 years ago. If I became a pop star that would be a great swan song, much more edifying that a 5 years music career that ends at the age of 25 and then you spend the rest of your life trying to better it. I mean to go out on a high.

So when you see your reflection you think "Who's that old bastard there?"

 

[lardiman]

I recall taking empty glass bottles to get a deposit back when I was a nipper.
And the bus fare for our weekly shopping expedition being in old money.
And those shiny ticket machines the conductors on the Routemasters used to have...

 

[The Penguin]

I recall taking empty glass bottles to get a deposit back when I was a nipper.
And the bus fare for our weekly shopping expedition being in old money.
And those shiny ticket machines the conductors on the Routemasters used to have...

Yes, I used to pick up lemonade bottles from the football terraces for the deposit.
Also take old clothes round to a firm which reused them, would weigh them and give me some change.
We would also go round the phone boxes pressing buttons A and B, and sometimes change would popout. Once a Half Crown came out, and I can still remember the sheer joy. All the money went on sweeties.

 

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Yes, I used to pick up lemonade bottles from the football terraces for the deposit.
Also take old clothes round to a firm which reused them, would weigh them and give me some change.
We would also go round the phone boxes pressing buttons A and B, and sometimes change would popout. Once a Half Crown came out, and I can still remember the sheer joy. All the money went on sweeties.

Sweeties from the Blue Light area of Kilmarnock?

 

[Sandman]

So when you see your reflection you think "Who's that old bastard there?"

I don't look that old, plus I'm a bit fit (kick boxing / weights). plus I still roller skate and climb trees. Old is an attitude that can be adopted at any age. My teeth are 125 years old, all 6 them.

 

[Sandman]

If you can fill your head with good thoughts, your concept of time becomes less defined, and even more so if you embrace the chaos that sometimes fragments order. Age is about how we live, not how long we live.