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Oh even better
Drug test
The republicrats & demoncrats both,   

And I am sure we would be surprised

Term limits would be good too
Give everybody a chance to put it to us 
The other day I was listening to the tv and thought that ...
...It is funny to hear someone talking that is a rich person and act like they are one of us
Ha 
Oh this is random thoughts and a good thing
Cause I would like to see a flat 10% tax rate no deductions for anyone
Hmmmm
Oh well maybe that is too far 
Everyone pay the same

Love that last post Ice!!!

And I am 100% behind term limits Linville!!!

Oh so wise that one was

Nice willie

Your kidding me

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Nope I’m out

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“On line at the check out in the super market, I watch as an old woman digs in her purse for every last coin in there to pay for the few items she has bought. A well dressed, clearly affluent man standing behind her watches. Very gently he says “Don’t worry— I’ll take care of the rest,” and reaches into his pocket to pay for her things. “Thank you, but no” the old woman says to him and is not smiling. Instead she tells the cashier to put aside a container of sour cream she had planned to buy but now wouldn’t. Putting her three purchases into a bag and without looking at the man again, she left. The man was embarrassed. The cashier told him not to mind— this was the second time that had happened with the woman. The guy shrugged and walked out of the store. I’ve been thinking about the scene since it happened. The small kindness of the man’s gesture, the old woman with her pride, the cashier who remembered that it had happened before. 

— JONATHAN CARROLL

That’s a good example of why pride is one of the deadly sins...affecting everyone around them negatively.

Discouraging kindness...what a way to go through life. Especially bothersome because an “old” lady should be in the know.

(11-09-2017, 11:25 PM)Popster Wrote: [ -> ]That’s a good example of why pride is one of the deadly sins...affecting everyone around them negatively.

Discouraging kindness...what a way to go through life.  Especially bothersome because an “old” lady should be in the know.

I have to respectfully disagree with that. There's a difference between hubris and pride, and i think the latter is admirable. The old woman declined help not because of excessive self-confidence, but pride. And the foundation of her pride is her self-sufficientcy; she would rather have less but have earned it herself. 

And, to be fair, she did say thank you.

Kindness should be encouraged and graciously accepted.
It is in this way that we can assist and serve others.

(11-10-2017, 04:42 AM)Chantilly Wrote: [ -> ]

(11-09-2017, 11:25 PM)Popster Wrote: [ -> ]That’s a good example of why pride is one of the deadly sins...affecting everyone around them negatively.

Discouraging kindness...what a way to go through life.  Especially bothersome because an “old” lady should be in the know.

I have to respectfully disagree with that. There's a difference between hubris and pride, and i think the latter is admirable. The old woman declined help not because of excessive self-confidence, but pride. And the foundation of her pride is her self-sufficientcy; she would rather have less but have earned it herself. 

And, to be fair, she did say thank you.

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“Memory is weightless, yet sometimes it weighs a thousand kilos.
— JONATHAN CARROLL