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ape
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Introductions are in order!

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Heya all!

What re-interests me about philosophy is that to me it is really all about the Wisdom of Love, which of course led me to the Love of wisdom and all other words.

Since I learned about this, I am open to the ideas of others so that I can re-prove or disprove my own ideas about what I think philosophy is all about.

And that is how I found this forum!

About me, I am male, married to my first wife,
have 2 children, a boy and a girl,
and have 2 grandkids, a boy and a girl.

I love athletics and all sports, and play soccer and racquetball and squash and chess et alia.
I live in the us of a.

I love for a living!
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mfarrugia11
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Post by mfarrugia11 »

Looks like you have come to the right place :) good luck! and good on you for your keen interest in sports, I'm Australian and we value are sports people so thumbs up!
ape
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Post by ape »

mfarrugia11 wrote:Looks like you have come to the right place :) good luck! and good on you for your keen interest in sports, I'm Australian and we value are sports people so thumbs up!
Hi mate!

Thanx for the welcome and good wishes, and sorry about not replying before. I got so taken up with responding to the various totally interesting subjects, I totally forgot to check back here!

I too love the don bradman and lindwall and miller!
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whitetrshsoldier
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Post by whitetrshsoldier »

Ape, you are free to do what you want. I highly dislike when you write !smile! after every sentence, though, and please refrain from attempting to harness the power of guilt, however unintentional or subconscious, while continuing to waive the banner of christianity as you do.

Once again, these are suggestions; I will never demand anything from anybody.
"I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings! I'm obviously just insecure with the ineptitudes of my logic and rational faculties. Forgive me - I'm a "lost soul", blinded by my "ignorant belief" that there's such a thing as reality and truth in the world"
ape
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Post by ape »

whitetrshsoldier wrote:Ape, you are free to do what you want.
Ape:
Well, thank you.
I want to stay and stay in Love.
whitetrshsoldier wrote: "I highly dislike when you write !smile! after every sentence, though,...
Ape:
I highly and tirelessly love whatever you write whenever you write it, except for just one thing.

As justice must only to be done but also seem to be done, so too that 'smile' is meant to convey what is pleasant expression in on my face.

If we had a smiley with a closed lipped smile rather than the one we have here, I wd use that.

Sorry for the offence.
So no more 'smiles' in my posts to you.
whitetrshsoldier wrote: ...and please refrain from attempting to harness the power of guilt, however unintentional or subconscious,...
Ape:
Now I am guilty of being innocent of that charge, but will accept, in Love of myself as guilty as charged, your honest evaluation of me.

Now, if you would just show me how to eliminate what you charge me with, I'll act to suit, I promise you.
whitetrshsoldier wrote: ... while continuing to waive the banner of christianity as you do.
Ape:
The Banner of Love is as much atheistic as theistic since both atheists love and theists love.
whitetrshsoldier wrote: Once again, these are suggestions;
Ape:
Thanx.
whitetrshsoldier wrote: I will never demand anything from anybody.
Ape:
Does that 'anybody' include yourself?
Please always feel free to demand Love and Respect from me.

Here is something from Atheism to cheer you on and up:

"United with his fellow-men by the strongest of all ties, the tie of a common doom,
the free man finds that a new vision is with him always, shedding over every daily task the light of Love.

The life of Man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long. One by one, as they march, our comrades vanish from our sight, seized by the silent orders of omnipotent Death. Very brief is the time in which we can help them, in which their happiness or misery is decided.

Be it ours
to shed sunshine on their path,
to lighten their sorrows by the balm of sympathy,
to give them the pure joy of a never-tiring affection,
to strengthen failing courage,
to instill faith in hours of despair.


Let us not weigh in grudging scales their merits and demerits,
but
let us think only of their need—
of the sorrows,
the difficulties,
perhaps the blindnesses,
that make the misery of their lives;
let us remember that they are
fellow-sufferers in the same darkness,
actors in the same tragedy with ourselves.

And so,
when their day is over,
when their good and their evil have become eternal by the immortality of the past,
be it ours
to feel that,
where they suffered,
where they failed,
no deed of ours was the cause;
but wherever a spark of the divine fire kindled in their hearts,
we were ready
with encouragement,
with sympathy,
[/b]with brave words in which high courage glowed.[/b]"  
A Free Man's Worship
by
Bertrand Russell   
A Free Man’s Worship was written in 1902;
it was republished by Mr. Russell in 1918 in his volume Mysticism and Logic.
Ruwayda Mustafah
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Post by Ruwayda Mustafah »

I love for a living!
Do you get paid?
ape
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Post by ape »

Ruwayda Mustafah wrote:
I love for a living!
Do you get paid?
ape:
Yes, with Love which makes me a Love-billionaire!
But not yet with money!smile
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