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Post 20

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:24amSanction this postReply
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Now I'm confused, Robert.  Are you saying that Jamie Kelly is a "little man" because he likes baseball and sex, instead of ... what?  What is it that "the great" like?  Is there a list somewhere that delineates the things that great people must like in order to be labelled "great"?

Why do you think that praising "the little man" has to be at the expense of "the great"?  Is there something intrinsically bad about baseball that makes a person who likes it a "little man"?


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:24amSanction this postReply
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Maybe my tone is being misunderstood. I'm not trying to crap on anyone, just curious is all.

Sarah

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Post 22

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:42amSanction this postReply
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"Jamie Kelly" loves baseball, and the small of a woman's back, and bowling, and every little thing in life that reminds me of the big thing in life, which is that life is to be enjoyed and not forensically picked apart with lamentations and dissected with psychic tedium until the day passes that all those "little" things, those "redneck" things, those things that should be celebrated every goddamn day of your life, are no longer within your grasp, and you're wallowing in your own regret that you didn't stop to admire a good fastball and have more sex.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:47amSanction this postReply
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Jamie,
Well said.  (Except for the bowling.)
Glenn


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:48amSanction this postReply
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By the way, Robert ...
If my "redneck" credentials bother you, you might know that I am a jazz and classical pianist. While we do like our women barefoot, preg'nt and in the kitchen cookin' up deer meat on the griddle, we ain't ALL about that lowly redneck stuff like bowlin' and baseball and drinkin' Coors here in Montana. Does that suit Your Highness?
(Edited by Jamie Kelly
on 10/26, 7:50am)


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:50amSanction this postReply
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Andrew hit the nail on the head with his comment.

I never thought I would find myself on SOLO having to explain these things.  I think there are a lot of people here more suited to Stoly's puritanical philosophy than to SOLO.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:56amSanction this postReply
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I like this quote very much. Celebration of life comes FIRST. Without a sense of celebration of life there is no motivation for achievement. Achievement is part of the celebration. If you don't have the capacity for enjoyment of life that this quote suggests, you only have DUTY to motivate you to achieve. The sense of life engendered in this quote is thoroughly objectivist.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 7:59amSanction this postReply
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Jamie, Jodie, and Ashley have just save the rest of SOLO from having to endure a long tedious post from me!

Bill Sipes
 PS- I thank the universe for AC/DC and rational women with big round butts!


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 8:05amSanction this postReply
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Who in the hell actually likes soft porn?

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 9:20amSanction this postReply
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That quote defined the essence of that person, not the part... if you consider yourself to be a Crash Davis, then you are limiting yourself...  this is not to say those, or some at any rate, mentioned are innemical to the flourishing life, only that, in this quote, they are taken as an essence - a big difference...
(Edited by robert malcom on 10/26, 9:22am)


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 3:39amSanction this postReply
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I have to mention that Costner is only the only actor who says that Oswald acted alone and in another movie that Oswald was in a conspiracy.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:59amSanction this postReply
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Amen, brother. Let me just must add outlawing interleague play to the Crash Davis Amendment.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 9:57amSanction this postReply
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Who in the hell actually likes soft porn?

I'm not really a fan of any porn.  I guess I've just never thought of sex as a spectator sport.

SmS


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 10:26amSanction this postReply
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Greg Mullen, I don't like soft porn either. If I'm going to have porn, then I'm going to go whole hog and have hardcore porn. Why screw around and watch people pretend to fuck?


(Edited by Matthew Graybosch
on 10/26, 10:28am)


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 11:25amSanction this postReply
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Sometimes there is no choice but to be the spectator. :(

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 11:29amSanction this postReply
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Sometimes there is no choice but to be the spectator. :(

Are you familiar with the term, "preaching to the choir"?  Then again, I haven't really been all that receptive lately, so I have no one to blame but myself.

SmS


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Post 36

Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 12:42pmSanction this postReply
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Ashley,

Bonk. You wrote:
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.
Offer what you like. Do not let the wolves win.

If I ever see anyone trashing the precious things that you see fit to share with others here, I am one who will speak out against them.

Michael


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 1:45pmSanction this postReply
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I never thought I would find myself on SOLO having to explain these things. I think there are a lot of people here more suited to Stoly's puritanical philosophy than to SOLO.
Did I miss the memo about objective reality necessitating objective tastes?

Sarah

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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 4:33pmSanction this postReply
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Sarah-
Did I miss the memo about objective reality necessitating objective tastes?

Yes.


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Wednesday, October 26, 2005 - 5:28pmSanction this postReply
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Jody,

Oh, well then maybe that crazy Marotta wasn't so full of it after all.

Sarah

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