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Posts: 1457 02/02/06 00:21:25 Moderator |
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camping | #42 | ||
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Posts: 1457 02/08/06 20:34:51 Moderator |
Camping was a blast, I do find it odd the things that people believe. One of our campers firmly believes that every year a cat pees on his tent.
There is no actual evidence of this as far as I can tell, Funny yet odd. Later |
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Posts: 3169 02/08/06 21:24:00 Indisputable BookTalk Master |
Maybe he means "cat" in the jazz sense of the word. In which case, one of you could be the culprit.
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Chris OConnor |
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Posts: 9511 02/08/06 22:06:54 BookTalk Owner |
I peed on Matt's tent.
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Posts: 1457 02/09/06 00:44:39 Moderator |
Well... there ya go!
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 02/09/06 21:47:46 Moderator |
Something just occurred to me, I have spent over of a century training to hurt, kill, or destroy people, places and things, I am very good at this, but I have rarely needed to use these skills. (Thankfully) Does this mean that I have wasted all that time? I don't think so, but who knows, maybe I have prepared for something that will never happen to me.
So my question is, was Sung Su correct? Is it better to be prepared for a war you don't fight? Later |
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Posts: 3169 02/10/06 14:57:41 Indisputable BookTalk Master |
Well, the other way you can think of it is, has a person who dies the day after their college education wasted all that time?
Boethius' answer would be that the practical end of your training is secondary, because you never know what fortune will throw your way. What really matters is what sort of intrinsic worth it confers on you. In terms of Eastern philosophy, I'd say this relates to the difference between jitsu and do, as with jujistu and judo, or kenjitsu and kendo. One is practical training, and if you don't use it, it's wasted. The other is more about what it imparts to you as a person. So the question -- and only you are qualified to answer it -- is whether or not you're a better person for your training, regardless of whether or not you ever put it into practice. |
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 02/10/06 20:14:21 Moderator |
Well of course I am going to say I am a better person because of it,
 but in all seriousness yes, because of the training I have good muscle mass, a healthy heart, improved concentration, motivation, sickness is nearly unheard of, and a wonderful tolerance for pain. Add to this the moral standards I have come to embrace that I mentioned in my opening statement. Anyway thanks for an objective view point. Later |
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 02/22/06 22:56:38 Moderator |
Well, I lost a guy from my team at work. He was one of the good ones; I had him trained up good and proper, for a former marine. I can't say much about what happened; suffice it to say he crossed the line of professional behavior.
Now, a choice has to be made, my company is going to send us either another hard core jar head or a pansy egg head. We will probably get stuck with the egg head, to offset our overwhelming coolness. Look at me being all positive. I am positive we are going to get the egg head.  Later |
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Chris OConnor |
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Posts: 9511 02/23/06 00:06:08 BookTalk Owner |
What do you mean by "lost a guy from our team?" He died? How?
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 02/24/06 00:13:31 Moderator |
He did not die; he got to aggressive with someone when it was not appropriate.
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 02/24/06 00:15:53 Moderator |
Oh, I almost forgot we got the egg head.
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 03/23/06 01:00:37 Moderator |
I'm off!
I'm being deployed again. This time it looks as though it could be up to 12 weeks. (12 weeks of MRE's yuck!) Anyway this assignment is so cloak and dagger I do not know much about it. I will keep posting until I leave but I do not know when that is going to happen yet either. Possibly in the next week or so. Later |
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Chris OConnor |
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Posts: 9511 03/23/06 01:03:08 BookTalk Owner |
Do you need me to keep the wife occupied while you're out of town?
 I see you online right now. I'm about to go to bed. Give me a buzz before you leave and fill me in on everything you know about this deployment. 12 weeks is a long time. 
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 03/23/06 01:12:53 Moderator |
O'Tay Butwipe
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Frank 013 |
shreveport La | #56 | ||
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Posts: 1457 04/30/06 09:08:28 Moderator |
Well I am here in Shreveport La, its much like tampa, except the gene pool seems much shallower, sort of puddle depth.
I am working personal protection for a high level corperate suit from Excide. Excide is closing a plant out here and 200 + employees either have to find new work or relocate. The local union was not happy because the decisition was kept secret from the employees until the day of the closure. The work is probally the most dangerous I have done outside the military, also the most exciting. personal protection is awesome! the employees at the plant believe that I might be FBI and they are akward and nervous around me. Funny I never thought I was that scary looking.  Over all, things have been quiet so far, very few people have challenged our security measures and the belief that the FBI might be involved is keeping the general staff off balance. I will continue to check in when I have time. Later |
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Posts: 9511 04/30/06 10:10:34 BookTalk Owner |
You've always been pretty scary looking to me.
 Two weeks ago Tina and I went kayaking on the Weeki Wachee River. Afterwards we drove out to the ranch to see what it looked like these days. We saw horses in the stalls and apparent activity, but the ranch didn't look as well maintained as when we lived there. I snapped a few pictures with my digital camera, so let me know if you care to see them. The mining road is now quite overgrown, and driving a Lexus on those rocks was rather nerve racking. They aren't built for rough roads. I remember how we tore up and down the roads in our cars back then, but this time it took 5 minutes just to get down the mining road.  |
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Posts: 1457 05/06/06 10:05:57 Moderator |
Well, the personal protection part of my job ended yesterday with no problems!
Now we just protect the site and the last few workers while they get the equipment out. We should finnish up by July 1st. |
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Posts: 9511 05/06/06 10:07:18 BookTalk Owner |
You're going to be out of state till then?
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Frank 013 |
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Posts: 1457 05/07/06 09:49:02 Moderator |
yep.
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- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - by Daniel Dennett
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- The Time Traveler's Wife - by Audrey Niffenegger
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- Ender's Game - by Orson Scott Card
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - by Mark Haddon
- Value & Virtue in a Godless Universe - by Erik J. Wielenberg
- The March: A Novel - by E.L. Doctorow
- The Ethical Brain - by Michael Gazzaniga
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism - by Susan Jacoby
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed - by Jared Diamond
- The Battle for God - by Karen Armstrong
- The Future of Life - by Edward O. Wilson
- What is Good? The Search for the Best Way to Live - by A.C. Grayling
- Civilization and It's Enemies: The Next Stage of History - by Lee Harris
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space - by Carl Sagan
- How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God - by Michael Shermer
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- The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature - by Stephen Pinker
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- Atheism: A Reader - edited by S. T. Joshi
- Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century - by Howard Bloom
- The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History - by Howard Bloom
- Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - by Jared Diamond
- Demon-Haunted World: Science As a Candle in the Dark - by Carl Sagan
- Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - by Dee Alexander Brown
- Future Shock - by Alvin Toffler
