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Losing All Your Possesions
- Thread starter antincedo
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Quote from MaxxHeatt:
Quote from ChaosNSX:
"So in conclusion, don't take stuff to seriously. Stuff is just crap."
Not only that, but I found that most of my crap required some degree of maintenance, which took up time. Since my time is more valuable to me than most of my crap, I rid myself of much of it.
That is absolutely correct. The problem is trying to get your wife to understand it. I lived an almost stress free existence before I got married. I would not trade my 3 sons in for the world - seriously, no amount or power or money could replace them, but what I would give for a wife who did not give a shit about what others think, do or have.
In short (this is a joke) it could be wives desires for bigger better houses which caused the breakdown of the world financial markets.
Quote from stephenszpak:
In the game of trading, and life, and the part of life that
we use to trade with, things don't always go as well as
we hope.
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"Peak Performance" is an episode from the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The USS Enterprise-D is ordered by Starfleet Command to take part in a combat practice simulation in preparation for the Borg threat. Both Captain Picard and Commander Riker are reluctant to participate, citing Starfleet's traditional role as an exploratory and paramilitary organization, not an actual military. Nevertheless, they follow the orders. A Zakdorn strategist named Sirma Kolrami is sent to the Enterprise-D to serve as tactical consultant and overseer of the simulation. Kolrami's severe condescension toward the crew is only made stronger when he easily beats Riker and Lieutenant Commander Data at Strategema. Data becomes convinced he is malfunctioning, but his crewmates realize he is in fact experiencing a crisis of confidence, a very human response.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: (speaking to Data, an android):
...and Commander: It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness - that is life.
Yeah, but in the end Data played not to lose.
Quote from MaxxHeatt:
"So in conclusion, don't take stuff to seriously. Stuff is just crap."
Not only that, but I found that most of my crap required some degree of maintenance, which took up time. Since my time is more valuable to me than most of my crap, I rid myself of much of it.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
The only thing you truly own is your soul (spirit, mind, whatever you wanna call it). Anything else is just an illusion.
Quote from coolweb:
i on the other hand don't hang out with any misfits, only rich, and successful people, they give me the mentality of continue strive for success,
then you really don't understand what life is about. Many "rich and successful people" are constantly doing self-destructive things. They make a lot, and find out their life is no more meaningful than it was before. Backstabbing, me-too, expensive toys, etc. fill the closet, not the soul. In fact, it can be downright empty...
Try hanging around with some people who could use encouragement, mentoring, vision, hope, concern, and a lot of other things. Be a teacher, not a GQ poster boy.
Success is much more about close friends & family, finding your place in the world, giving back, leaving some kind of meaningful legacy, enjoying each day and finding purpose, etc. etc.
There is no U-Haul behind your hearse. You go out as quickly, naked and cold as the poor.
Reminds me one time, a rich man had his coffin filled up with gold. When he got to heaven, he was toting his 24K ingots around. An angel saw him and asked, "why did you bring paving stones? (the sidewalks were gold, lol)...
Quote from 9999:
Couldn't have said it better myself.
The only thing you truly own is your soul (spirit, mind, whatever you wanna call it). Anything else is just an illusion.
(You don't own that either.)
We can't take anything with us. No matter how much wealth
you/I accumulate, it all goes back.
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17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have control over all the work into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun.
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=25&chapter=2&version=31&context=chapter
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Screwtape Letter XXI (by C.S. Lewis)
Screwtape (a high level demon) talks about ownership.
I felt like posting the entire letter, but it's on-line, so only an
excerpt and link will be provided.
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The sense of ownership in general is always to be encouraged...
We produce this sense of ownership not only by pride but by confusion. We teach them not to notice the different senses of the possessive pronounâthe finely graded differences that run from "my boots" through "my dog", "my servant", "my wife", "my father", "my master" and "my country", to "my God". They can be taught to reduce all these senses to that of "my boots", the "my" of ownership.
http://members.fortunecity.com/phantom1/books2/c._s._lewis_-_the_screwtape_letters.htm
Quote from sg20:
Move to another city where people don't know you and start a new; it's the hardest thing when you have to deal with your self trying to be right and those around who think of you differently, IMO.
This is exactly what I am doing. I'm moving to Chicago in early 2009 from Florida.