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notapplicable
Aug 23, 2012, 3:21 PM
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jstan wrote: Have just had a chance to get back to this thread. I think it turned out to be pretty interesting. The power of whimsy on full display.
Well played with the OP. This turned out to be a funny read.
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jstan
Aug 24, 2012, 11:41 AM
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Now I am serious.
I think "Not" is right. It was good reading. Why?
Here is what I was trying to demonstrate. It is possible to talk about serious things with serious emotion, and even use the short words
but still get a message across ( a rare accomplishment)
as long as you do one thing.
Come from the point of view that you are just as imperfect as the other guy.
That's all.
Good show wjca. I cross posted your stuff to ST and Kerwin said
"ho man. Pure gold"
I am sure you know KLK. That's some really high praise from a great source.
Good crew here.
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ninepointeight
Aug 24, 2012, 2:21 PM
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dan2see wrote: Are you a comedian?
I think you got trolled by a famous climber.
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dan2see
Aug 24, 2012, 3:21 PM
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ninepointeight wrote: dan2see wrote: Are you a comedian? I think you got trolled by a famous climber. 
Henry David Thoreau wrote: Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.  |
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jstan
Aug 24, 2012, 3:39 PM
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I think the book "Surely you are joking Mr. Feynman" is a great read. Feynman led the group doing the calculations that solved the very difficult real time diffusion problems presented during creation of the atomic bomb. And did it all in a matter of months. His wife, Arlene (who was dying of tuberculosis), asked him why he cared what anyone thought.
She asked a very good question everyone faces. Everyone faces problems and if one still lives they can be said to have solved them. As the years go by one ends up sitting above a stack of them and they have an outlook. That outlook is called self-confidence.
That's really why we climb. It develops self-confidence faster. That being the case it becomes perplexing why it is climbers on web sites are so fixated on having to seem better or "always right."
Being better is an illusion as is being always right. Self-confidence is the ability to fix those cases where one happened not to be right. Self confidence also allows one to admit you are as imperfect as the other guy.
Lack of self confidence and immaturity was about all there was in RC years ago so I left about the time I posted. Then last week I discovered there was some real talent here.
Face it folks. You are beginning to get somewhere.
The bar is getting a little higher each day.
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ninepointeight
Aug 24, 2012, 4:03 PM
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jstan wrote: That's really why we climb. It develops self-confidence faster. That being the case it becomes perplexing why it is climbers on web sites are so fixated on having to seem better or "always right."
Reflecting on my pursuits, on occasion I have remarked that what draws me to participate in activities like climbing or spelunking isn't that I'm some kind of thrill seeker. It is the active and methodical repulsion of fear and the camaraderie of having done so with another.
(This post was edited by ninepointeight on Aug 25, 2012, 3:58 PM)
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