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2013-09-15 Home Front: Culture Wars

Choices become actions, actions become habits, and habits become our character

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Posted by Uncle Phester 2013-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Spare the rod...

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-09-15 03:42|| 2013-09-15 03:42|| Front Page Top

#2 More to life than dichotomies, but all great advice, distilled to its essence. Thanks for that one...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-15 06:15|| 2013-09-15 06:15|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the one I was looking for. Yes, it's from that hokey old show Kung Fu, but it does espouse how sometimes there's a range of choices and an overarching strategy to consider:

"Perceive the way of nature and no force of man can harm you. Do not meet a wave head on: avoid it. You do not have to stop force: it is easier to redirect it. Learn more ways to preserve rather than destroy. Avoid rather than check. Check rather than hurt. Hurt rather than maim. Maim rather than kill. For all life is precious nor can any be replaced."

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-15 06:24|| 2013-09-15 06:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Then again, some forces just need to be killed, right away, on general principles...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-15 06:26|| 2013-09-15 06:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Hmm most of those are a false dichotomy.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-09-15 06:26|| 2013-09-15 06:26|| Front Page Top

#6 If taken as "this" or "that" with no in between, you are correct, BP. In life, everything is a compromise.

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-15 06:41|| 2013-09-15 06:41|| Front Page Top

#7 "It is by will alone I set my mind in motion."

Not a lesson plan, but a good reminder. I like this one (paraphrased): Concerning baseball, but really any sport:

You are going to take the field and play your best, and you are going to win 1/3 of your games, and lose 1/3 of your games; its what you do with those close games which gets you to the playoffs.

Yes, fresh fried calamari is good. And catfish. Trout.

Posted by swksvolFF 2013-09-15 10:43|| 2013-09-15 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I want chicken fingers with Frank's hot sauce...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-15 15:00|| 2013-09-15 15:00|| Front Page Top

#9 It'll stain my mouth red, but do nothing for my mind...

Posted by M. Murcek 2013-09-15 15:01|| 2013-09-15 15:01|| Front Page Top

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