Good Karma

[cs]

Once again we will try the good karma approch that has been done before. At this time I think we need some good Karma. So I will give you a week to present your best argument to be the recipiant of good karma.

I've made couple of post with quotes from this book and I will repeat them here.


There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet-except in dreams. The wings of the rushing wind seem to be bearing you onward, you know not where. You are no longer the low, plodding, puny thing of clay, creeping tortuously upon the ground; you are a part of Nature! Your heart is throbbing against her heart! Your spirit is at one with hers; your limbs grow light! The voices of the air are singing to you. The earth seems far away and little; and the clouds, so close above your head, are brothers, and you stretch your arms to them.
I do not wish to be insulting, but I firmly believe that if you took an average towline, and stretched ti out straight across the middle of a field, and then turned yor back on it for thirty seconds, that, when you looked round again, you would find that it had got itself altogether in a heap in the middle of the field, and had twisted itself up, and tied itself into knots, and lost its two ends, and become all loops; and it would take you a good half'hour, sitting down there on the grass and swearing all the while, to disentangle it again.The book is "Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)" by Jerome K. Jerome.

Chad

[ 10-07-2004, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: cs ]

[Bruce Hooke]

Good idea. We could use some uplifting quotes around here. Here's one...


When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of Canaan to spring from the wasteland, I am convinced that in spite of everything, humanity is admirable. But when I compute the unfailing greatness of spirit and the tenacity of benvolence that it must have taken to achieve this result, I am taken with an immense respect for the old and unlearned peasant who was able to complete a work worthy of God.From The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

[cs]

Just to add the person who gives the best reason for good Karma will get this book sent to them from me at no charge to them.

Chad

[stevenj]

edited: didn't want to detract from the generous offer being presented.

thanks
stevenj

[ 10-07-2004, 04:41 PM: Message edited by: stevenj ]

[cs]

What!? Nobody wants good Karma?

Chad

[Popeye]

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Impotent Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer - board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

LXXV

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss'd you down into the Field, He knows about it all - he knows - He knows!

LXXVI

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

LXXVII

For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they will not - each Is but one Link in an eternal Chain That none can slip, nor break, nor over - reach.

LXXVIII

And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently rolls as you or I.

Omar Khayyam:
The Rubiayat, c. 1120 CE

[Beowolf]

I promise that should the Lions beat the Falcons this weekend, I shall be a gracious winner and not rub it in the faces of any Falcon fans that may be present here on the forum. (Somehow, I'm not to worried about having to deal with that particular situation though... :( )

And in the event that the Lions should lose, I will accept with equal grace, the nonstop barrage of sense remarks and tauntings from all those SOB Falcon fans and their stupid little dirty birds and don't even get me started on the ones who don't even live in Georgia!... Oh. Ummm.. This is a uh, karma thread, hmmmm. yeah, ahh just forget about that last little piece, 'kay?

;) Take Care.

Jeff

[Concordia..41]

My karma is in neutral right now because I won The Proving Ground by G. Bruce Knecht in Billy Bones' thread, and I'm selfishly hanging on to it so that I can read it again, rather than pass it on to another Forumite as per the karma code. :(

[cs]

Jeff I promise not to rub it in if we win. ;) Besides I'm afraid my football karma might balance out this weekend with TN playing Georgia. :(

Chad

[cs]

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[mmd]

Sailing is...
by Silver Donald Cameron, from Once Upon a Schooner: A Foreign Voyage on Bluenose II

Sailing is not so much a job as a calling, a vocation. Voyaging is one of the great metaphors for life itself - life stripped of its fever and fret, focused on ultimate concerns. The mysterious, tragic quality of the sea echoes the unknowable reaches of the human situation, of our relationship to chance and destiny, glory and disaster. Sailing requires a powerful development of crucial human qualities: courage, determination, ingenuity, cooperation, honesty, competence. The sailor daily confronts the possibility of suffering and privation, even death. Like one or two other ventures - mining and battle, for instance - sailing makes great demands on people and bonds them closely together in the full recognition of their interdependance despite their human frailty. It is understandable, as Noel Monstert puts it, that "for so many centuries shipwreck struck man as the epitome of irony and despair: the failure of himself at his proven best, within a rope's throw of salvation."

[Beowolf]

I just experienced a karma adjustment. After watching my Spartans win yesterday and my Lions win today, my sewer line backed up into my basement. Looks like it's between the home and the street as blasting the street line had no effect. Roto-rooter is coming tomorrow.

:(

Basement is not good.

Jeff

[cs]

Sorry to hear that Jeff, hope it can just be fixed by snaking.

Chad

[cs]

To the top

[Hwyl]

I'll claim the Karma. I must have spent most of the weekend volunteering--Yacht club on Saturday. Daughter's theater on Sunday www.schoolhousearts.org (http://www.schoolhousearts.org) . Some political stuff too, but I'm not sure that's worthy of karma--parties are so divisive. I won the 50/50 raffle at the theater(to cries of "fixed") it was just $14 but I spent it on my kids (I thought of sneaking it into the box office drawer--their book keeping is not watertight).

I read "three men in a boat " in my teenage years. Isn't there a line about sailing every longitude and latitude in search of treasure. I am always remined of that when my head gets stuck in charts

[ 10-11-2004, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: Hwyl ]

[cs]

back up

[SUE H]

I'm in college at a . . er. . tender age, happily married, have a wonderful daughter and family, and a great job. I think my karma's already arrived!
Chad, as a side note, I admire what you're doing in here and believe in it. Optimism is the key, and you've got karma to spare in that department.

[Popeye]

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"The time was when ships passing one another at sea backed their topsails and had a "gam," and on parting fired guns; but those good old days have gone. People have hardly time nowadays to speak even on the broad ocean, where news is news, and as for a salute of guns, they cannot afford the powder. There are no poetry-enshrined freighters on the sea now; it is a prosy life when we have no time to bid one another good morning."

-- Capt. J.S.

[cs]

All the way on the second page. Will have to bump to top once again.

Chad

[cs]

A winner will be anounced today around lunch.

Chad

[cs]

After much meditation and recieving guidance from the spirits and decision has been reached. Even though the recipient wanders with the bad football spirits of The Lake of the Stinking People (fitting for his own current woes ;) ) he has been a faithful follower of the spirits of the boats who speak to us in our dreams.

This karma's recipient is none other than Jeff of the Beowolf.

Contact me off forum with a current and correct mailing address and the book will be yours.

Chad

[Beowolf]

First, I'd like to thank the academy....Oh wait...wrong speech.

Thanks Chad. I've been itching for a good read.
Email is on the way.

Jeff

[cs]

Jeff, I haven't recieved your e-mail as of yet.

Chad

[Beowolf]

Received a package in the mail today, thank you very much, good sir.

Can't wait to dig into it.

Be on the lookout for when this book pops up again!
(Although I'm a rather slow reader)

Jeff

[cs]

Glad it came in. Hope I didn't wrap it too much.

Chad