Why Must Everything Fit Someplace?

Luckyme · 01-15-2013, 02:24 PM

"... this is a Lounge," said Lucky. "... and does a Lounge not invite for discussion? For talk, musing or contemplating live, the live of humans and their way of life?" When Martin Luther King said, "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see," did he not try to explain the idea he had on life? Did he not try to bring within the grasp of those surrounding him The Idea of Plato? Did Plato not suggest in his Allegory of the Cave that what mankind sees as reality is in truth a collection of shadows cast on the walls of the cave in which we are imprisoned? And are all humans not imprisoned in the cave of their minds? Do not their own ideas, their philosophies hold them prisoner? And does enlightenment only come when an individual grasps the idea that there is truth beyond sense? That truth does not always makes sense?

Would truth always make sense and humans always have the sense to see those truths ... Wouldn't that be an ideal world?

**Exo** · 01-15-2013, 10:56 PM

If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?!

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words: "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then "skinned." I'm not sure what the fourth stage is.

**Janszoon** · 01-15-2013, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?!

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words: "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then "skinned." I'm not sure what the fourth stage is.

TheBig3 · 01-15-2013, 11:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Luckyme

Wouldn't that be an ideal world?

Sounds pretty boring.

Freebase Dali · 01-15-2013, 11:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?!

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words: "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.

If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.

There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then "skinned." I'm not sure what the fourth stage is.

Ah, good old Jack Handey. Always good stuff.

**Exo** · 01-15-2013, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Freebase Dali

Ah, good old Jack Handey. Always good stuff.

I recently read every one of his deep thoughts. Those were my favorites. Hilarious.

Freebase Dali · 01-15-2013, 11:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Exoskeletal

I recently read every one of his deep thoughts. Those were my favorites. Hilarious.

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

When this girl at the art museum asked me whom I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like mayonnaise." She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.

Instead of having "answers" on a math test, they should just call them "impressions," and if you got a different "impression," so what, can't we all be brothers?

If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.

If you want to be the popular one at a party, here's a good thing to do: Go up to some people who are talking and laughing and say, "Well, technically that's illegal." It might fit in with what somebody just said. And even if it doesn't, so what, I hate this stupid party.

It's easy to sit there and say you'd like to have more money. And I guess that's what I like about it. It's easy. Just sitting there, rocking back and forth, wanting that money.

A good way to keep a mob of peasants from killing your monster is when they break into your castle, make them be real quiet, then open a door and there's the monster, sound asleep.

I think a good novel would be where a bunch of men on a ship are looking for a whale. They look and look, but you know what? They never find him. And you know why they never find him? It doesn't say. The book leaves it up to you, the reader, to decide. Then, at the very end, there's a page you can lick and it tastes like Kool-Aid.

If you lived in the Dark Ages, and you were a catapult operator, I bet the most common question people would ask is, "Can't you make it shoot farther?" No. I'm sorry. That's as far as it shoots.

~~fleamailman~~ · 01-15-2013, 11:49 PM

("...I'm subscribed to this thread now, I like TheBig3's reply and can relate to it..." mentioned the goblin who would contribute here, simply he knew luckyme from elsewhere and wished her well here)

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between the pouring rain, and unforgiving sun, geneva, where the goblin lived, has periods of gray dullness like now, in which the goblin would usually sit in the bistro trying to make sense of his life, before giving up knowing that when it all made sense he would only want he life to be a mystery again, sighing "...when I understand is when I don't want to understand anymore..."

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Luckyme · 01-16-2013, 06:15 AM

"... you can't always get what you want ..." Lucky smiles as she thinks on these lyrics and hears the tune. How true and how very human to want nonetheless. To always want more than they can handle and when they have it, often they do not even know what to do with that coveted prize. "... but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need" And how easy humans forget what they need and aim only for what they want.

**Exo** · 01-16-2013, 09:05 AM

I'm confused as to who these people are now.

01-15-2013, 02:24 PM	#1 (permalink)
Luckyme Groupie Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 0	Why Must Everything Fit Someplace? "... this is a Lounge," said Lucky. "... and does a Lounge not invite for discussion? For talk, musing or contemplating live, the live of humans and their way of life?" When Martin Luther King said, "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see," did he not try to explain the idea he had on life? Did he not try to bring within the grasp of those surrounding him The Idea of Plato? Did Plato not suggest in his Allegory of the Cave that what mankind sees as reality is in truth a collection of shadows cast on the walls of the cave in which we are imprisoned? And are all humans not imprisoned in the cave of their minds? Do not their own ideas, their philosophies hold them prisoner? And does enlightenment only come when an individual grasps the idea that there is truth beyond sense? That truth does not always makes sense? Would truth always make sense and humans always have the sense to see those truths ... Wouldn't that be an ideal world?

01-15-2013, 10:56 PM	#2 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	If you were a pirate, you know what would be the one thing that would really make you mad? Treasure chests with no handles. How the hell are you supposed to carry it?! Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself. Mankind. Basically, it's made up of two separate words: "mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind. If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy. There are many stages to a man's life. In the first stage, he is young and eager, like a beaver. In the second stage, he wants to build things, like dams, and maybe chew down some trees. In the third stage, he feels trapped, and then "skinned." I'm not sure what the fourth stage is. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

01-15-2013, 11:49 PM	#8 (permalink)
~~fleamailman~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 11	("...I'm subscribed to this thread now, I like TheBig3's reply and can relate to it..." mentioned the goblin who would contribute here, simply he knew luckyme from elsewhere and wished her well here) repost from elsewhere between the pouring rain, and unforgiving sun, geneva, where the goblin lived, has periods of gray dullness like now, in which the goblin would usually sit in the bistro trying to make sense of his life, before giving up knowing that when it all made sense he would only want he life to be a mystery again, sighing "...when I understand is when I don't want to understand anymore..." 6 Last edited by fleamailman; 01-16-2013 at 03:26 AM.

01-16-2013, 09:05 AM	#10 (permalink)
Exo All day jazz and biscuits Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: NJ Posts: 7,354	I'm confused as to who these people are now. __________________ LastFM SUPREME POO BAH MODERATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE

01-16-2013, 06:15 AM	#9 (permalink)
Luckyme Groupie Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 0	"... you can't always get what you want ..." Lucky smiles as she thinks on these lyrics and hears the tune. How true and how very human to want nonetheless. To always want more than they can handle and when they have it, often they do not even know what to do with that coveted prize. "... but if you try sometimes you just might find you get what you need" And how easy humans forget what they need and aim only for what they want.