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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:15 PM Original message |
OUR OBSESSION WITH WINNING |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Winning" is rooted in our survival instinct |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. What cost winning if, by winning, we lose our soul? |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:04 PM Response to Reply #3 |
11. We are a primitive bunch |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:34 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. I like your response. May I use your second sentence? I have a hard spot |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Be my guest, as I stole it from someone else. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. How? We can survive without "winning." |
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rAVES (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. If a big lug of a meathead runs over and punches a smaller kids face in, does he "win the fight"? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:26 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yes! And I lost a lot of fights in jr hi. nm |
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undercutter2006 (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
26. you've just described |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:25 PM Response to Original message |
4. Maybe insecurity or low self esteem |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:29 PM Response to Reply #4 |
8. You mention the Olympics. Yeah the US has to enter our pro basketball team |
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undercutter2006 (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
27. russia is going through the similar phase right now actually |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:28 PM Response to Original message |
7. I disagree. Most of us want to learn and be better people. nt |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:31 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. You say most of the people of the US want to learn and be better people? I disagree. Have you been |
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Common Sense Party (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:12 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Have you been to a soccer game in Europe or Latin America lately? |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:29 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. "Ignorance Without Borders". |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Is that what you assert as a test of the character of,...ANY PERSON? |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:43 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. No of course not. Just sayin there are a hell of a lot of people in this country |
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sicksicksick_N_tired (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:13 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Obviously, you FAIL to acknowledge all those who haven't won. |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 12:49 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. You have an unusual method of discussion. What do you intend when you ask me to get off the meme? |
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undergroundpanther (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 05:46 PM Response to Original message |
10. winning meant taking all |
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Mayberry Machiavelli (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:06 PM Response to Original message |
12. It's easier to be obsessed with "winning" when it's not your own flesh and blood that has to be |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 06:08 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Too true. And I like your name. nm |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
20. I never got into the so called sport of winning |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
21. I am not obsessed with winning. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:09 PM Response to Original message |
22. Another description for "obsessed with winning" would be "Understands what's at stake" |
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undercutter2006 (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
24. that doesn't even make any sense when you apply it to iraq |
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rhett o rick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 12:54 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Trying to put myself in their heads, which itself is frightening, I would guess that winning |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-20-07 10:08 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. If you really press them, they will not answer |
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undercutter2006 (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-19-07 08:26 PM Response to Original message |
25. GREAT POINT on vietnam |
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