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Wasn't this posted once before?

Post 1

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 4:16pm

Well, if it wasn't, it damn well should have been :-)

In fact, I think I'll post it again next week.

Anyone wanna do it the week after?

Ross

Post 2

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 4:30pm

Hmmm, now that I think about it, you may be right.
But goddamn, is that not poetry? THAT'S why I love that movie so much. Unabashed celebration of "sin." Fucking and booze and sports. I especially like the scene in the locker room where the Christian baseball player Jimmy announces a daily prayer meeting before practice, and one of the other players says, "Goddamn it, Jimmy, lighten up and get laid."
(Edited by Jamie Kelly
on 10/25, 4:37pm)

Post 3

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 4:47pm

Unabashed celebration of "sin."

Why celebrate "sin?" Because someone else told you not to? Because it feels good? I see nothing wrong with practicing (in moderation) what "they" call sin, but what's there to celebrate?

Sarah

Post 4

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 5:04pm

What's there to celebrate about sex and baseball? Are you really asking what's there to celebrate about sex and baseball? Am I to understand that you're asking me what there is to celebrate about sex and baseball?

Post 5

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 5:14pm

This was already posted at

http://solohq.com/Spirit/Quotes/Author_309.shtml

Is there some way to delete duplicate quotes from the archives?

Post 6

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 6:22pm

Jamie,

Yes.

Sarah

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 7:09pm

Sarah-

wrong with practicing (in moderation) what "they" call sin, but what's there to celebrate?

What's there to celebrabe!?! Moderation!?!
Beauty, achievement, thrall, exstasy, 'the small of a womans back', smell, sight, taste, touch, Nolan Ryan at 44 in the bottom of the ninth striking out the final batter for his unprecedented 7th no-hitter, did I mention achievement, did I mention life, did I mention sense of life, did I mention everything I hope to experience in everyday of my life. This quote would do well to be permanently placed on SOLO's credo page.

Post 8

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 9:08pm

Jody,

Pulling out sense of life ain't gonna work this time, bud. Achievement I can understand celebrating. The sport in general? The small of a woman's back? I just don't get it. And must I really pull out an Aristotle quote on moderation? Alcohol is fine, drunkenness isn't. Sex is fine, an obsession with sex isn't. See where I'm coming from?

Sarah

Post 9

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 9:14pm

I just don't like Kevin Costner. Seeing this makes me hear his voice. I hate Kevin Costner. Did I mention I hate Kevin Costner? I mean that I don't like him and don't like to hear his voice.

Post 10

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 9:14pm

WaterWorld my heinee.

"Nyquil's taken my mind, sorry...)
(Edited by Joe Maurone
on 10/25, 9:53pm)

Post 11

Tuesday, October 25, 2005 - 10:51pm

Achievement I can understand celebrating .... The small of a woman's back? I just don't get it.

Sarah, I never thought I'd see myself type this, but this is one of those cases where, "To those who understand, no explanation is necessary. To those who don't, none is possible."

Post 12

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 2:09am

Achievement I can understand celebrating .... The small of a woman's back? I just don't get it.

Sarah, I never thought I'd see myself type this, but this is one of those cases where, "To those who understand, no explanation is necessary. To those who don't, none is possible."

I don't get it either. I mean, celebrating the small of MY womans back - which means, the small of a lovers back, which means, something achieved, which probably means celebrating something greater than the small of the back, but embodied by it - I get, but the small of the backs of those women over there? No, I want nothing to do with them. Let someone else celebrate them. But then maybe I just don't understand, or I have a poor sense of life.

Post 13

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 4:36am

The one thing I don't know that I get about objectivists is the impulse to crap all over other people's "good stuff." I mean, if someone has made an error in fact, or moral judgement, by all means, open up the debate. But in a forum which is first and foremost about celebrating beauty and passion, I am extremely hesitant to offer up any of the things I hold most precious because there is the equivalent of a pack of wolves ready to rip it to fucking shreds and make me feel lilke an idiot for ever feeling anything about it.

I don't particularly care for Kevin Costner, but I love baseball, and I love the Durham Bulls, and I thought the real Crash Davis was a real nice guy. The movie Bull Durham celebrated some of the good things in life, and no matter about the politics of Tim and Susan, it was sexy and romantic and even though nobody really talks like that I get what Jamie likes about that quote because it captures a certainty that the character had that you rarely find in people now. And I think the small of most any woman's back rates a second look, unless she is a beast. In which case I didn't see it the first time.

Post 14

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:18am

This is a redneck's view of the 'joy of life', and in that context, is a cause of celebration... but the criticisms leveled at it are yet appropriate, as that is a very limited view of the joy of life, a non-intellectual human flourishing view, which in terms of human qua human debases the best within...

Post 15

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:59am

Because this is getting strangely hostile, just want to say that I was teasing a bit (not trying to crap on anyone's good time.)

Still don't like Kevin Costner. But I'll deal with that...somehow...

Post 16

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 6:21am

Thought he did ok in Dances with Wolves and The Postman, but no, not liked Waterworld...

Post 17

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 6:40am

I agree that it's getting strangely hostile. It's like some bizarre weather phenomenon is affecting people. Here in Sydney, the temperature is climbing as we move into another hot summer, and people's brains are starting to be addled by the heat, but obviously most people on this site are in the US and many in Florida. It must be the hurricanes.

Post 18

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 6:46am

Robert said:

This is a redneck's view of the 'joy of life', and in that context, is a cause of celebration... but the criticisms leveled at it are yet appropriate, as that is a very limited view of the joy of life, a non-intellectual human flourishing view, which in terms of human qua human debases the best within...

Don't you think that this is just a tad elitist?
Ashley said:

The one thing I don't know that I get about objectivists is the impulse to crap all over other people's "good stuff."

The kind of pettiness you're describing crosses all philosophical boundaries, but objectivists have no excuse.
Thanks,
Glenn

Post 19

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 6:57am