Guess not.

    * For most gulls, it is not flying that matters, but eating. For this gull, though, it was not eating that mattered, but flight.

    * Most gulls don?t bother to learn more than the simplest facts of flight ? how to get from shore to food and back again.

    * We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

    * Jonathan Seagull discovered that boredom and fear and anger are the reasons that a gull?s life is so short, and with these gone from his thoughts, he lived a long fine life indeed.

    * The gull sees farthest who flies highest.

    * Don?t believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding.

    * If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome space, and all we have left is Here. Overcome time, and all we have left is Now. And in the middle of Here and Now, don't you think that we might see each other once or twice?

    * The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

    * "The only true law is that which leads to freedom," Jonathan said. "There is no other."

Richard Bach - Jonathan Livingston Seagull

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
-Dr. Seuss

Life.....is a series of dogs.    -George Carlin

It's possible to disagree with someone about the ethics of non-violence without wanting to kick his face in.
-Christopher Hampton

Quote from: digitalbuddha on December 20, 2008, 04:01:55 PM

Quote from: digbys kid on December 17, 2008, 10:25:59 AM

Quote from: Dude1967 on December 17, 2008, 12:13:45 AM

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.     -Niels Bohr

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.     -Emo Phillips

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.        -Mike Myers


Is life worth living?
Aye, with the best of us,
Heights of us, depths of us -
Life is the test of us!
    -Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Hope for the best
Expect the worst
Life's a play
We're unrehearsed.
                 --Mel Brooks

Is that some kind of Eastern thing?

East side of Manhattan, I guess, or due east of there, Brooklyn, which may have a bad reputation, though there are some nice folks who live there.

...quite possibly the laziest in New York. ...which would place them high in the runnin' for laziest worldwide--but sometimes there's a man. . . sometimes there's a man.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is   -Will Rogers

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow    -James A Michener

I like this place, and willingly would waste my time in it  -William Shakespeare

I'd give you my seat, but I'm sitting in it       -Chico Marx

in the dude's prayer, it's "forgive us our stresspasses." i like that. the swedish jeff (john jansson) came up with that. dig it here:

http://dudespaper.com/pray-hey-hey-the-dudes-prayer-set-to-music.html/

Wish I'd seen that article earlier, since I got some friends n' family being very UnDude about my choice to be Dudeist.

Thy chill be done- I like that, too.

Dude, a quote here might help your situation................

"Any new ethos is first laughed at, then violently opposed by pulling a piece out on the lane or tossing a coffee cup at a dude's head, and then finally excepted as being a worthy fucking concept"

(the dude version)

Maybe your people are at some form of stage two. Also, I like this quote...............

"Tough times don't last, tough dudes do."

And ah, you know what I'm trying to say; "sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, wha, the bar eats you."


Fuck it, let's all get us a lane.