This resonated with me.

[mark]

About sums it up.

Tribalism, cults of personality, ignorance, fear, and hate, will be our downfall.

We are capable of so much better.

[George K]

@Jolly said in This resonated with me.:

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Don't sweat the petty things.

And don't pet the sweaty things.

[Jolly]

Something I've told my crew many times:

What's the worst that can happen? They kill us, cook us and eat us. And that probably isn't going to happen.

[Jolly]

@George-K said in This resonated with me.:

@Jolly said in This resonated with me.:

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Don't sweat the petty things.

And don't pet the sweaty things.

You better pet the sweaty things occasionally or you may never ride them again.

Oh, and don't put them up wet...

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Especially the part about trivialities.

Although I had to look up Bukowski to make sure he wasn't a serial killer.

Why? I fail to see the connection. We all breathe air, therefore we should all love each other? Why not hate each other? It's no less valid a philosophy than love...

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for loving my fellow man, but not simply because we're all going to die. That's no justification in my mind.

[Mik]

Ax, how did you hack Lufin???

[LuFins Dad]

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Ax, how did you hack Lufin???

I did think “Wow, this sounds pretty much like Ax” when I wrote it…

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in This resonated with me.:

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Especially the part about trivialities.

Although I had to look up Bukowski to make sure he wasn't a serial killer.

Why? I fail to see the connection. We all breathe air, therefore we should all love each other? Why not hate each other? It's no less valid a philosophy than love...

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for loving my fellow man, but not simply because we're all going to die. That's no justification in my mind.

Congratulations, that's officially the stupidest thing I'll read all day. And I'm going to be in marketing meetings so that's really saying something.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Horace said in This resonated with me.:

Aqua will be displeased that you had to look up bukowski.

My eye was indeed twitching.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Catseye3 said in This resonated with me.:

I've redd other short stuff by him, though I can't remember any of them now, and he struck me also. I think you would like his other work.

A lot of it is glamorizing loserdom—kinda like Steely Dan, but Bukowski's more hardcore about it.

Laughing Heart and Roll the Dice are masterpieces, though, and I usually hate free verse.

[Jolly]

Just call me Deacon Blues.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Jolly said in This resonated with me.:

Just call me Deacon Blues.

This guy gets it.

[LuFins Dad]

@Aqua-Letifer said in This resonated with me.:

@LuFins-Dad said in This resonated with me.:

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Especially the part about trivialities.

Although I had to look up Bukowski to make sure he wasn't a serial killer.

Why? I fail to see the connection. We all breathe air, therefore we should all love each other? Why not hate each other? It's no less valid a philosophy than love...

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for loving my fellow man, but not simply because we're all going to die. That's no justification in my mind.

Congratulations, that's officially the stupidest thing I'll read all day. And I'm going to be in marketing meetings so that's really saying something.

Do I get a prize?

Seriously? I'm not saying that we shouldn't all love each other. I'm just saying that the fact that we're all going to die someday is irrelevant to the issue... If we weren't going to die then it's okay for strife and conflict?

[Mik]

Aqua will be sending you your prize. It will appear to have been sent by mail, but….

[Aqua Letifer]

@LuFins-Dad said in This resonated with me.:

@Aqua-Letifer said in This resonated with me.:

@LuFins-Dad said in This resonated with me.:

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Especially the part about trivialities.

Although I had to look up Bukowski to make sure he wasn't a serial killer.

Why? I fail to see the connection. We all breathe air, therefore we should all love each other? Why not hate each other? It's no less valid a philosophy than love...

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for loving my fellow man, but not simply because we're all going to die. That's no justification in my mind.

Congratulations, that's officially the stupidest thing I'll read all day. And I'm going to be in marketing meetings so that's really saying something.

Do I get a prize?

Seriously? I'm not saying that we shouldn't all love each other. I'm just saying that the fact that we're all going to die someday is irrelevant to the issue...

Not learning how to love others makes every aspect of your life worse. Not just in a metaphysical, theoretical sense. It makes people want to avoid you, it limits your opportunities, both in terms of understanding yourself (which is essential to solve higher order problems, whose solutions provide greater rewards) and in understanding others (which leads to others being more willing to work with and be around you), and ultimately brings no satisfaction in the end. All it does is hold you back: personally, professionally, spiritually.

It only starts with holding you back, though. It also takes a lot of time to repair that damage, and more time still to catch up to where you should have been, had you learned how to love others sooner.

When you have a limited life span, wasting your time is the biggest waste there is.

It's amazing to me you can't see any of this.

If we weren't going to die then it's okay for strife and conflict?

That's the adverse of what he said. Whether or not one thing is true is independent of whether or not its adverse is true. It's equally surprising to me that you seem to have forgotten this.

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Aqua will be sending you your prize. It will appear to have been sent by mail, but….

In keeping with the spirit of the original post in this thread, I'd like to point out that I try like really hard not to do that kind of thing anymore.

[Mik]

@Aqua-Letifer said in This resonated with me.:

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Aqua will be sending you your prize. It will appear to have been sent by mail, but….

In keeping with the spirit of the original post in this thread, I'd like to point out that I try like really hard not to do that kind of thing anymore.

The exception proves the rule?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

@Aqua-Letifer said in This resonated with me.:

@Mik said in This resonated with me.:

Aqua will be sending you your prize. It will appear to have been sent by mail, but….

In keeping with the spirit of the original post in this thread, I'd like to point out that I try like really hard not to do that kind of thing anymore.

The exception proves the rule?

It could be that LD's confused about this message because he wasn't as much of an obnoxious ass-clown when he was younger. It's not like my opinions on the matter come from being a shining example.

[Catseye3]

@Aqua-Letifer said in This resonated with me.:

Not learning how to love others makes every aspect of your life worse. Not just in a metaphysical, theoretical sense. It makes people want to avoid you, it limits your opportunities, both in terms of understanding yourself (which is essential to solve higher order problems, whose solutions provide greater rewards) and in understanding others (which leads to others being more willing to work with and be around you), and ultimately brings no satisfaction in the end. All it does is hold you back: personally, professionally, spiritually.
It only starts with holding you back, though. It also takes a lot of time to repair that damage, and more time still to catch up to where you should have been, had you learned how to love others sooner.

It's amazing to me you can't see any of this.

Troubling to clarify Bukowski's point, about the costs of not learning to love others, and following it up by sharing your amazement at your listener's stupidity kind of cancels the point, doesn't it?

[Aqua Letifer]

@Catseye3 said in This resonated with me.:

@Aqua-Letifer said in This resonated with me.:

Not learning how to love others makes every aspect of your life worse. Not just in a metaphysical, theoretical sense. It makes people want to avoid you, it limits your opportunities, both in terms of understanding yourself (which is essential to solve higher order problems, whose solutions provide greater rewards) and in understanding others (which leads to others being more willing to work with and be around you), and ultimately brings no satisfaction in the end. All it does is hold you back: personally, professionally, spiritually.
It only starts with holding you back, though. It also takes a lot of time to repair that damage, and more time still to catch up to where you should have been, had you learned how to love others sooner.

It's amazing to me you can't see any of this.

Troubling to clarify Bukowski's point, about the costs of not learning to love others, and following it up by sharing your amazement at your listener's stupidity kind of cancels the point, doesn't it?

Read my post to Mik just above your own.