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Originally Posted by Charles

I don't know either.

I would like to make a point. I've never found anyone who I agreed with 100% on everything. Now I have one buddy with which we pretty much agree 80% of the time. But we've been getting drunk together for a good 35 yrs, and as much as I love him, at times he bores me to tears. In a way, it's like getting drunk by yourself while looking in a mirror.

I find it more entertaining to get drunk with my liberal buddies. Maybe that's why I waste so much time on this forum.

As a rule, we agree on what we want from society, and life. But we do parry over the best means to get from point A to point B. And as a rule, we reach for a consensus, as opposed to getting all pissed off at one another. Not that that doesn't happen at times. But I find these conversations to be far more interesting than those with my old buddy with whom we pretty much agree on everything. We are basically using one another as sounding boards...with predictable results.

Now please don't take my following statements as a personal insult, as they are not meant to be. These are only my observations, and as such, are certainly open for debate.

But, IMHO, you have already made you mind up, and should anyone disagree with you, you not only dismiss them out of hand, but become angry. Hell, I was pretty much the same way until I turned 50, and realized that I was nobody or nothing, and I really didn't know shit from beans. And getting all bent out of shape about is was the dumbest thing I could do. Anger is a self inflicted wound.

There's a lot to be said for being nobody or nothing, and dumber than a day old pig. You're not expected to hold they keys to the universe.

What's say we get along. Sometimes we agree, sometimes not.

But it beats the shit out of going through life with a bug up your ass. It's a fools burden, and one which can be left beside the road at any time. To everyone's benefit.

Now I'm 100% correct on this one, and one of the few statements from which I refuse to back down from.

And allow me to wish you an enjoyable evening, Kind Sir. Whether it is or not is entirely in your hands. I was miserable for 50 yrs, and most of it was due to what I allowed to clutter my mind.

Chas

you have the monopoly on miserable here Chas I do not. I must be getting to you since you always respond to me.....perhaps I am dumber than a day old pig. You are just like me except I do not have to be so cryptic. If I am dumber than a day old pig you sure must be enjoying my posts. The Tea Party is not going to fool this day old pig. Besides, who was in charge on Animal Farm?