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Theresa
Bumppo's Tavern Proprietress
USA
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 Posted - December 11 2002 : 07:31:27 AM
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The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular reason for being happy except that they are so.
~~~W. R. Inge
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Many Flags
Colonial Settler
USA
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Posted - December 11 2002 : 12:06:42 PM
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| Is this like "ignorance is bliss"?? I've always wondered about that!! The more one knows, the more depressing the world and life can be?? Many Flags (iced in and loving it) |
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Theresa
Bumppo's Tavern Proprietress
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Posted - December 11 2002 : 4:49:38 PM
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Originally posted by Many Flags
Is this like "ignorance is bliss"?? I've always wondered about that!! The more one knows, the more depressing the world and life can be?? Many Flags (iced in and loving it)
Quite possibly so, Flags. I know the less tv news I watch, the less newspaper reading I do, the more oblivious to the world I am, there is a calm that settles over me.
Theresa (not quite iced in but freezing my hiney off never the less.)  |
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Scott Bubar
Colonial Militia
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Posted - December 11 2002 : 9:30:18 PM
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Perhaps it's just in the genes.
Or, they're taking Prozac. |
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Many Flags
Colonial Settler
USA
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Posted - December 12 2002 : 05:51:59 AM
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| This is one of the great philosophical questions of all time (I'm taking over for Many Flags who is outside deicing the cabin steps so he can get to the woodshet!!). If education is so good, then why can it make one so depressed? Is it best to know the ills of the world (educated!), to read, to learn about man's inhumanity to man, to realize the world is corrupt, to become jaded to life's "pleasures", to know people for what they really are; but also to appreciate Shakespere, Debussey, Jackson Pollock, Locke, Robert Burns, etc., etc. I'm not sure "ignorance is bliss" is a true theorum.....BUT, I know it's more difficult to be upbeat about the world and the success of civilization as we become more "worldly" and "educated".....Pax Aye! Dr. Uncle Mark (Ahhh, Many Flags is finished with the cabin steps, so I'm off to Syracuse Univ. to pick up daughter Katie for the holidays!!) |
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