Guard Dog Posted June 17, 2022 Author Posted June 17, 2022 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 17, 2022 Author Posted June 17, 2022 Woman About to be Evicted Was Saved By Neighbors Who Bought the Home For Her 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 26, 2022 Author Posted June 26, 2022 Watch White Sox fulfill young fan's dream "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 26, 2022 Author Posted June 26, 2022 Scottish Islanders Save Couple’s Wedding Across the Ocean After Nightmare Airport Saga Lost Their Luggage I think most folks are pretty decent when given the chance to be "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 26, 2022 Author Posted June 26, 2022 Firefighter rescue dog trapped in submerged car 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 26, 2022 Author Posted June 26, 2022 NY Libraries giving away free books to kids 3 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted June 26, 2022 Author Posted June 26, 2022 Iraqi Drought Reveals Stunning 3,400-Year-Old City Covered By Tigris River I think I sacked this city while playing Old World. 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted July 19, 2022 Author Posted July 19, 2022 Tourist Survives 18 Hours at Sea By Clinging to a Soccer Ball WILSON! Is that you? "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted July 19, 2022 Author Posted July 19, 2022 Family Left Stunned When Their Dog Escaped–Only to Return Later With a Dog Show Ribbon 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted July 19, 2022 Author Posted July 19, 2022 Russian journalist sells his Nobel prize for a record $103.5 million to help Ukrainian children 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted July 19, 2022 Author Posted July 19, 2022 How the phrase 'Let's go Brandon' made a little boy with autism feel loved Something good comes from something stupid. 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted July 19, 2022 Author Posted July 19, 2022 Pizza Delivery Driver Saves Five People From a Fire 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gorth Posted January 21, 2023 Posted January 21, 2023 Wherever you are @Guard Dog, I hope you're busy enjoying the more positive sides of life rather than raging against the establishment It's not a secret, that I'm no fan of religious institutions, but sometimes you hear about people that are sounds like they are "good people" despite being religious. Or maybe they listen more to the ethics of their religion than they listen to the people claiming to speak on behalf of said religion. Anyway, enough of my own ranting https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64354823 His family described him as a humble, God-loving man, who would often send handwritten get-well cards and share vegetables from his garden with neighbours. But even his family didn't know one big secret. Every month, for nearly a decade, Mr Childress donated $100 (£80) to the local pharmacy for anyone who couldn't afford to pay for a prescription. Over the years, he gave nearly $12,000 to the community, but his generosity came with one condition: don't tell anyone. ... He passed away at the age of 80, after having saved both lives and quality of life of an unknown number of people through his (secret) generosity. The world needs more of his kind 1 “He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice.” - Albert Einstein
Guard Dog Posted March 17, 2023 Author Posted March 17, 2023 29 Species Have Recovered Enough in Australia to be Taken Off Endangered List 1 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 17, 2023 Author Posted March 17, 2023 The ‘Rainbow Bridge’ has comforted millions of pet parents. Who wrote it? 3 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 17, 2023 Author Posted March 17, 2023 Dunkin' customer surprised beloved employee with fully furnished home after eviction "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 17, 2023 Author Posted March 17, 2023 Don't know about you guys but I think good news is more important than ever. 6 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gromnir Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 for a true depressive, realizing good news keeps happening to other folks will make them feel more miserable. counter-intuitive, tales o' woe have cathartic value as those who see each new day as a cause for lament is able to find some small solace in the recognition that in spite o' their isolation, only in their suffering is they other than alone. that said, and as crazy as it sounds, am having been told our pov is a bit cynical... serious. am also self-aware enough to recognize how a guy who has joyce's the dead memorized is likely not the best role model for achieving healthy warm and fuzzy. HA! Good Fun! "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Guard Dog Posted March 17, 2023 Author Posted March 17, 2023 I have to admit my optimism has taken a hit of late. But like CS Lewis said, the sun is always shining somewhere else. It makes me happy to be reminded of that. Yeah, I know that wasn't where Lewis was going with that thought but I'm putting my own spin on it. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Gromnir Posted March 17, 2023 Posted March 17, 2023 3 hours ago, Guard Dog said: Yeah, I know that wasn't where Lewis was going with that thought indeed. lewis observed we need live in the shadowlands while the sun shines somewheres else. ... "God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world… no doubt pain as God’s megaphone is a terrible instrument-- it may lead to final and unrepented rebellion. it gives the only opportunity the bad man can have for amendment. it removes the veil. it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul." -- c.s. lewis on the redemptive power o' suffering you do have a habit o' reading quotes so they mean the opposite o' what the author intended, but am s'posing is refreshing in a way. (our quote is from memory, so is likely we got a word or two reversed. apologies.) nevertheless, unlike c.s. lewis, am actual agreeing with your observation 'bout the value o' good news. am just observing how for the genuine hopeless, good news is yet another hammer blow from fate. isn't necessarily rational, but if you ever try and cheer up a depressed person with good news, you may not get the reaction you intended. the sun shining over the next hill or down the road cements the knowledge that the depressed must endure the shadowlands and while such pain may be proof o' God for the diehard catholic, it is a cruel jest for the disconsolate. HA! Good Fun! 1 "If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."Justice Louis Brandeis, Concurring, Whitney v. California, 274 U.S. 357 (1927) "Im indifferent to almost any murder as long as it doesn't affect me or mine."--Gfted1 (September 30, 2019)
Guard Dog Posted March 20, 2023 Author Posted March 20, 2023 I can understand the need to say "why me". Despite my best efforts not to I have caught myself saying it at times. But I don't believe in predestination, or some grand master plan for the warp and woof of life. It's all just random. Things happen because they happened. The undeserving prosper and the deserving fail as often as the reverse I guess. You do your best with what you have and things work out as they work out. My faith in God makes me believe that, in the end, we will find out that all those things we found so unbearable and caused us so much pain were not a big deal at all. It's like when your high school girlfriend dumped you and you thought the world was ending. Later on as you grew in experience you realized it wasn't a big deal at all. I think, hope, it will be like that after we have left this life behind. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 20, 2023 Author Posted March 20, 2023 New York landlord becomes legal guardian of 93-year-old Holocaust survivor: 'She had no one else' 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 20, 2023 Author Posted March 20, 2023 Maple Leafs fans belt out US national anthem in Toronto after singer’s mic cuts out Leafs fans get a bad rap. They're ok. Not their fault their team breaks their hearts every year. 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 20, 2023 Author Posted March 20, 2023 Over 60 dogs rescued from burning building 2 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted March 22, 2023 Author Posted March 22, 2023 500 Baby Sharks to be Released in Unprecedented Rewilding of the Ocean anyone else humming "baby shark"? 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
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