| LIFE Thought for the Day

[It Takes Eleven]

“After meeting our basic needs as creatures, we enter into the human universe of desire. And knowing what to want is much harder than knowing what to need.”

- Luke Burgis

 

[alabama mike]

A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

 

[TerryP]

I got started thinking about this a few weeks ago. It was in the context of watching kids wearing masks.

Here's my thought.

My biggest pleasure in life is making someone laugh. I'm a dimwit, of sorts. So, it can be challenging.

 

[TerryP]

Are you born without objectively? Do you lose it?

 

[TerryP]

I find out that nine of the top ten songs sang in churches originated from my church.

Who the hell am I to experience these things, first hand? Humbled.

 

[TerryP]

Things that don't land well.

When you talk to a gal you went to a Christian, private school and you find out how many kids she's had.

"Damn, you like to fuck."

 

[bama alum]

Do Amish people consider a candlelit meal romantic or... an every day event?

 

[TerryP]

Do Amish people consider a candlelit meal romantic or... an every event?

If two vegans get into a fight, is a beef?

 

[XXL TideFan]

If two vegans get into a fight, is a beef?

Beefsteak perhaps

 

[bama alum]

Things that make you go, "Hmm..."

 

[rick4bama]

 

[It Takes Eleven]

You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.

- Erma Bombeck

 

[TerryP]

I caught a good one today.

We've had telephones for 100 years and now people don't want to use the telephone, they want to send really quick letters.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

“The circle of an empty day is brutal, and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose."

- Elena Ferrante

 

[TerryP]

“The circle of an empty day is brutal, and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose."

- Elena Ferrante

A literal example.

A few days ago we had the New Moon phase. People around town were in such a damn hurry to do everything, driving like "bat's out of hell."

It was mid-afternoon when the "New Moon" idea struck me. By four, I'd said, "forget all of this and just went home." I felt like I hadn't accomplished a damn thing.

Hell of a time sleeping...just didn't happen.

 

[TerryP]

A fundamental question that I ask people when I'm gauging their intellectual honesty is to describe for me what the evidence would need to look like in order for them to alter a given position that they hold.

Gad Saad.

 

[rick4bama]

 

[TerryP]

Shame is an important social construct.

 

[It Takes Eleven]

“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realize that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer.”

- Helen Macdonald

 

[TerryP]

As I was driving down Dorchester a few minutes ago I saw a sign, in front of a Gentleman's Club, that said, "Live girls."

How empowering is that? Live.