Bazza Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 About 20 years ago, in an on-line community that no longer exists, one member said that his retirement plan was to shoot himself on his 65th. I suggested that he behave even more obnoxiously than he usually did, and then raffle off the role of who'll do the shooting. Pariah and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 That's not an uplifting thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Well, it's actually sounder than the post-retirement support plans of rather too many people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 ... Gotta start planning for that soon ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 About 20 years ago, in an on-line community that no longer exists, one member said that his retirement plan was to shoot himself on his 65th. I suggested that he behave even more obnoxiously than he usually did, and then raffle off the role of who'll do the shooting. I'm partial to the cyanide capsule plan myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 21, 2015 Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 I'd settle for an unknown brain aneurysm rupturing catastrophically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 When I go, I want to go quietly and peacefully in my sleep, like my grandpa did . . . not screaming in terror, like the passengers in his car. tkdguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 I don't think I want to know or choose. I just hope to be ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkdguy Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Are we ever truly ready for the great unknown when our time comes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 YEs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 It's like the old saying goes: Live each day as if it were your last--and one day, you'll be right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Ahem....I'm gonna live forever, so far, so good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 Hey Cancer have you by any chance read any of Erwin Schrodinger more philosophical works? I'm thinking of buying (and not buying*) an anthology type book collecting his "Nature and the Greeks" and "Science and Humanism". Any comments? *because...joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 22, 2015 Report Share Posted October 22, 2015 I don't think I've read anything actually written by Schrödinger. Just read about his physics, as described in textbooks and science history works. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Okay, cheers. Thanks for replying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 23, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Watched Tomorrowland. Enjoyable. I like these positive hopeful films/tv shows. It really is a ray of sunshine in the doom-and-gloom of practically everything else produced. As an example, watch Touch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Social phobia -- the gift that keeps on giving. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Found out yesterday (from my son) that someone on these boards is also a part of an on-line community my son "lives in", and was profanely amazed and defiant-in-a-NFW-way at my son's assertion there that Cancer (here) was his dad. So he wants to post a screenshot of his login there and my login here side by side on the same box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 I don't think it's me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 He didn't identify to me clearly which of the three or four communities he frequents was the one with the overlap. The idea of infiltrating one of them in a clandestine way and building things up slowly over time to get to the analog of "Luke, *I* am your father" is more work and more geeky than even I want to do. Pariah 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted October 23, 2015 Report Share Posted October 23, 2015 Everyone should have a hobby. Bazza 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 The more things change the more they stay the same. Or to phrase it using actual fragments from Heraclitus & Parmenides The more ‘on those stepping into rivers staying the same other and other waters flow’ the more ‘that it is and that it is not possible not to be’. Yes that is how the fragments translate them. I can provide actual sources if you are interested. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted October 24, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2015 FYI Astronomia Nova by Johannes Kepler Second edition, completely revised, of the only English translation of Kepler's 1609 masterpiece. A work of astonishing originality, Astronomia Nova stands, with Copernicus's De Revolutionibus and Newton's Principia, as one of the founding texts of the scientific revolution. Kepler revolutionized astronomy by insisting that it be based upon physics rather than ideal geometrical models. Includes many new features, including a comprehensive index. About the TranslationThe first edition of this translation was published by Cambridge University Press in 1992, but has long been out of print. After Green Lion Press acquired the rights, Donahue completely revised the translation with the assistance of classicist Bruce M. Perry, and added much material, including a listing of Tycho Brahe's Mars observations and accounts of Kepler's use of them, as well as a comprehensive index, which was lacking in the Cambridge edition http://www.greenlion.com/books/astronomianova.html Also available is Johannes Kepler's Optics and titles by Michael Faraday & James Clerk Maxwell, amongst others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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