Welcome to DU! The truly grassroots left-of-center political community where regular people, not algorithms, drive the discussions and set the standards. Join the community: Create a free account Support DU (and get rid of ads!): Become a Star Member All Forums Issue Forums Culture Forums Alliance Forums Region Forums Support Forums Help & Search

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:55 AM Mar 2013

For: Survivors and all of you who support us ~

[img][/img] always and forever ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~


[img][/img] I want to celebrate not being celibate.
[img][/img]


Importance of Original Knowledge
Principle #1: Don't trust retellers, get hold of the original sources.

A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.

So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what's wrong.

"The word is celebrate not celibate," says the old monk with tears in his eyes.
http://www.orcca.on.ca/~elena/site/DidacticJokes.html




namaste

In The Wind




42 replies = new reply since forum marked as read
Highlight: NoneDon't highlight anything 5 newestHighlight 5 most recent replies
For: Survivors and all of you who support us ~ (Original Post) In_The_Wind Mar 2013 OP
Excellent! ohiosmith Mar 2013 #1
It is! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #2
Chuckling antiquie Mar 2013 #3
me too In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #4
Love it. eom littlemissmartypants Mar 2013 #5
Life is grand! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #8
LOL ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #6
teh hot In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #9
teh hot - I don't get it ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #18
a nice hot bath In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #19
just got out ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #28
imo: it will get better! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #29
I know ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #31
easy does it. one day at a time. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #32
An excellent way to make an excellent point Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #7
Laugh and the world laughs with you! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #10
And you do make me laugh! Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #11
obviously. that's what in the wind is here for. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #12
No,...I think you bring much more than humor! Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #13
! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #14
She is a beautiful, loving, caring and mischievous presence here siligut Mar 2013 #21
Well said siligut, well said indeed! Sekhmets Daughter Mar 2013 #22
I've missed you! In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #24
" Laughter Is The Best Medicine" yes I agree ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #20
A 'man of culture' indeed! 'A contented heart.' 'Well adjusted.' In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #23
In The Wind Loryn Mar 2013 #15
Loryn In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #16
"The word is celebrate not celibate," ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #17
wee bit In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #25
got it ConcernedCanuk Mar 2013 #30
I've always suspected that the word was 'geek', not 'meek' lunatica Mar 2013 #26
imo: the geek are only meek because they are not stupid. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #27
For Survivors, and all that support us. Yes. sheshe2 Mar 2013 #33
as a pathway to peace . . . . . . . . . In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #34
Invictus: a poem and pathway to peace sheshe2 Mar 2013 #35
Sheshe, I remember that one. Do you remember this one by Kipling? freshwest Mar 2013 #36
Be true to yourself, yes freshwest. sheshe2 Mar 2013 #38
Sorry you hadn't seen it before. It helped me. I see much of our president in that poem, Sheshe. freshwest Mar 2013 #40
As do I freshwest! sheshe2 Mar 2013 #42
I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #37
Not only are you the master of your fate, In_The_Wind... sheshe2 Mar 2013 #39
You ~ sheshe2 ~ have brought great joy to my heart as few others have done. In_The_Wind Mar 2013 #41
 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
6. LOL
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 11:45 AM
Mar 2013

.
.
.

oh yeah



just pouring myself a bath

yeah

this being able to be clean is a bit of a trip!

found I wasn't so tanned after all - just a dirty white boy . .

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
31. I know
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:58 PM
Mar 2013

.
.
.

but I sorta am disgusted with how dirty I've been for the last 5 years -

I believe it's not my fault, but still

am a wee(maybe I shouldn't use that word?) ashamed of smelling so bad

ya don't notice it as it creeps into your clothes/body/house on a day to day basis

but NOW?

as soon as I go back to my trailers I smell everything in there

and it ain't nice

but you are correct

it'll get better

ty



In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
32. easy does it. one day at a time.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 02:02 PM
Mar 2013

yes, that is from a 12 step program
in the wind was the chair . . . for over 2 years.

siligut

(12,272 posts)
21. She is a beautiful, loving, caring and mischievous presence here
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:22 PM
Mar 2013

Very good to have her around And on our side

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
20. " Laughter Is The Best Medicine" yes I agree
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 01:19 PM
Mar 2013

.
.
.

I think my second album as a young teen was by Dr. Murray Banks

called "how to Live with yourself or What to do until the psychiatrist comes"

It was in the 50''s

so no there ain't no video

oh

just did a google





check it out

he is both informative and entertaining

there is more than one album in there

apparently the web caught on to his wisdom

 

ConcernedCanuk

(13,509 posts)
17. "The word is celebrate not celibate,"
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 12:59 PM
Mar 2013

.
.
.

just a wee bit of difference there doncha think??




Think I'll go with the celebrate thing




sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
35. Invictus: a poem and pathway to peace
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 08:56 PM
Mar 2013

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.


In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.


Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.


It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.



By William Ernest Henley

“…a good poem is like a sacred mind-altering substance: you take it into your system, and it carries you beyond your ordinary ways of understanding.” ~ Kim Rosen, author of Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words


, I_T_W,
she

http://yogaofwriting.net/?p=1815

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
36. Sheshe, I remember that one. Do you remember this one by Kipling?
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 09:21 PM
Mar 2013
IF...

IF you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
'Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!


While not a man, this has seen me many days of my life, that ran like that. I'll bet it reminds you of someone else, too...

sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
38. Be true to yourself, yes freshwest.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 09:45 PM
Mar 2013

When others doubt you, when they want to hammer you down, we must be true to ourselves!

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:



Thank you, freshwest. This is one I had not read!

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
37. I am the master of my fate. I am the captain of my soul.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 09:23 PM
Mar 2013

[URL=.html][IMG][/IMG][/URL]

I know those lines well . . . . . . . . .


she
namaste
in the wind

sheshe2

(83,355 posts)
39. Not only are you the master of your fate, In_The_Wind...
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 09:57 PM
Mar 2013

~You have a beautiful soul.

Robert Louis Stevenson


The Wind
From Child's Garden of Verses

I saw you toss the kites on high
And blow the birds about the sky;
And all around I heard you pass,
Like ladies' skirts across the grass--
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!

I saw the different things you did,
But always you yourself you hid.
I felt you push, I heard you call,
I could not see yourself at all--
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!

O you that are so strong and cold,
O blower, are you young or old?
Are you a beast of field and tree,
Or just a stronger child than me?
O wind, a-blowing all day long,
O wind, that sings so loud a song!


she

In_The_Wind

(72,300 posts)
41. You ~ sheshe2 ~ have brought great joy to my heart as few others have done.
Sat Mar 2, 2013, 10:07 PM
Mar 2013

When you speak to me ~ I truly feel your words.
Like the warm caress of a midnight summer breeze.

You are amazing. I feel honored by all that is . . . to know you.

Latest Discussions»The DU Lounge»For: Survivors and all of...