tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post7855855471738352473..comments2024-03-13T16:06:11.396-05:00Comments on the anti-soma: False. Self-serving.Heroditus Huxleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-66704330839951770022013-11-25T16:49:12.194-06:002013-11-25T16:49:12.194-06:00Exactly.Exactly.Heroditus Huxleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-15705004173564901312013-11-25T12:18:03.038-06:002013-11-25T12:18:03.038-06:00Couldn't have said it better myself. If you fi...Couldn't have said it better myself. If you find yourself at the bottom of the ladder because you refuse to try to climb, then don't be surprised if I get tired of giving you a hand up.DaddyBearhttp://daddybearsden.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-31376785516170954862013-11-23T15:06:47.880-06:002013-11-23T15:06:47.880-06:00Sadly true. I've had several, this past semes...Sadly true. I've had several, this past semester. And then, there's the one that turned out to have Graves Disease, which has just moved into the worst possible level of it. The poor little thing has had her thyroid killed once with radiation therapy, and now she has a zombie thyroid, that they're going to have to try again to kill with more radiation therapy over Thanksgiving break. I suppose, if this doesn't work, she's going to have to have it removed altogether.<br /><br />Needless to say, I'm being far more lenient with that one than I'm willing to be with others.Heroditus Huxleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-64820765681154229352013-11-23T14:54:08.656-06:002013-11-23T14:54:08.656-06:00Thoreau said it. And the average mortal being les...Thoreau said it. And the average mortal being less driven, less determined...well, there's no excuse for that, either. If someone wants out, they can get out. All they have to do is stop making stupid decisions.<br /><br />Heroditus Huxleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-45062004970295450882013-11-23T13:30:13.331-06:002013-11-23T13:30:13.331-06:00Actually, I think you have more drive, more motiva...Actually, I think you have more drive, more motivation, and more determination than the average individual. I'm not being unctuous, I simply think that's true . The average mortal is easily discouraged, given to despair, and without much hope. Who was it that said "most men lead lives of quiet desperation." Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-15783893717514141642013-11-23T12:38:51.590-06:002013-11-23T12:38:51.590-06:00I've seen much more minor situations where peo...I've seen much more minor situations where people made poor life choices and then expected others to come behind them and sweep up their problems. And I admit, my sympathy in that is stretched to the limit. Some years back, someone published some "rules for success" that included things like "don't drop out of high school" and "Don't have sex if you are not prepared to have/support a baby" <br /><br />The problem is, a lot of people don't think past the next day. As you pointed out, they've kind of been trained not to. So they decide they really want that expensive thing now, and they'll figure out how to pay it off later, even if it means bankruptcy.<br /><br />The problem is, those people who have lived responsibly often wind up paying for the others' screw ups. rickihttp://ranting-ricki.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-34976159506563338722013-11-23T08:34:34.918-06:002013-11-23T08:34:34.918-06:00I am nothing special. If I got out of that situat...I am nothing special. If I got out of that situation with no encouragement from my family, and only a Pell Grant, Vocational Rehabilitation, and my boyfriend then fiance then husband to support me through college, it goes to say that anybody can get out with minimal help from anyone else. <br /><br />No excuses.Heroditus Huxleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11049569750742829144noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7529212130092758272.post-21071435695760557672013-11-22T23:35:15.884-06:002013-11-22T23:35:15.884-06:00Did you ever see the movie The Inn of the Sixth Ha...Did you ever see the movie The Inn of the Sixth Happiness ? If you did, do you remember the part where the heroine,Ingrid Bergman, is bargaining with the bandit chieftain who wants her to use her medicines to save one of his wounded men?<br /><br />She says he has to promise not to pillage or rob for six weeks, and when she won't bargain he flys into a rage and says " you are getting very hard, Jeniah, like a man."<br /><br />You are getting very hard, Heroditus Huxley. ;-)Harry Flashmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05071021900005041592noreply@blogger.com