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Me and Steve and Steve
#13980956 - 02/17/11 07:58 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I was in Silicon Valley in the halcyon days and worked alongside Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak (but not at Apple Computer).
Both Steves are very rich - and I am not. Both Steves were into fitness. Now Wozniak is twice the size as when I knew him and Jobs is gaunt as a Dachau victim and dying of cancer.
We are all roughly the same age. (I am slightly younger than both.)
What is my point? I guess just a reflection of health, wealth and mortality.
I feel like fate passed my by in stock options and fancy houses and cars - yet I feel very healthy and will ilkely have many more good years.
So who really won the game of life out of the three of us?
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The one who had the most fun while they were here.
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Re: Me and Steve and Steve [Re: Icelander]
#13981011 - 02/17/11 08:10 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Well, that counts me out.
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Yeah me too. But at least I don't give a shit so much anymore. 
I ran into the ex (you know who) the other day. Found myself oddly pleased I'm no longer involved. Now that's progress. I actually wondered what the fuss was all about.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: Me and Steve and Steve [Re: Icelander]
#13981082 - 02/17/11 08:21 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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aawww, just look at you two. You are like the dodgy online father figures I have always wanted.
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Each person wants different things in life. The one that is the most satisfied and happy with what he has received/earned wins. In other words the one that is the most self-actualized. Unfortunately life can be a bitch and make it harder or impossible to get what we want from it. A lot of the time we are our own bitches though .
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Blondell_Letrange said: aawww, just look at you two. You are like the dodgy online father figures I have always wanted.

And you are like the daughter I always wanted to molest.
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A lot of the time we are our own bitches though
Oh yes. After years of playing the victim, I realised that I am usually the one holding the whip.
Self flagellation of the mind...the could'ave, should'ave, would'ave.
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Blondell_Letrange said: aawww, just look at you two. You are like the dodgy online father figures I have always wanted.

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A lot of the time we are our own bitches though
Oh yes. After years of playing the victim, I realised that I am usually the one holding the whip.
Self flagellation of the mind...the could'ave, should'ave, would'ave.
I also do that. I try to avoid it as much as possible. I guess it's not as bad as being other people's bitch. It's best to avoid that as much as possible or make it unintentional .
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Edited by dustinthewind13 (02/18/11 11:32 AM)
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sorry about your friend's cancer this means nothing in your cosmology except as an opportunity to be compassionate. end of story you knew 'em you did not get rich beside them you did not get sick with them. you still post at shroomery me too
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It was the best of Steves; It was the worst of Steves...
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redgreenvines said: sorry about your friend's cancer this means nothing in your cosmology except as an opportunity to be compassionate. end of story you knew 'em you did not get rich beside them you did not get sick with them. you still post at shroomery me too
I no longer post at the shroomery and haven't for several years now.
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OrgoneConclusion said: I feel like fate passed my by in stock options and fancy houses and cars - yet I feel very healthy and will ilkely have many more good years.
So who really won the game of life out of the three of us?
I've noticed that you are very concerned with winning and losing. Are you just now realizing that a successful life is not about fancy houses and cars?
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Are you just now realizing that a successful life is not about fancy houses and cars?
You mean in your opinion. 'Cause I wonder how it would be if you actually made such a claim for every other living being.
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How would you know what life is about for anyone but yourself? Get off your high horse and btw you are just as concerned about winning and losing as anyone else. Your posts demonstrate that.
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Go ahead and edit yourself into the wikipedia on backgammon already.
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Re: Me and Steve and Steve [Re: Icelander] 1
#13983816 - 02/18/11 10:15 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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Icelander said: How would you know what life is about for anyone but yourself? Get off your high horse and btw you are just as concerned about winning and losing as anyone else. Your posts demonstrate that.
I don't own a high horse, but if I did own a horse, I don't think I would let him/her smoke any pot.
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Why not?
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Are you just now realizing that a successful life is not about fancy houses and cars?
I am just now realizing that an old friend is near death because his gaunt image and pancreatic cancer news has been flashed on the tube. Should I not reflect on this?
How do you react when you hear such news of someone who was a part of your past?
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OrgoneConclusion said:
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Are you just now realizing that a successful life is not about fancy houses and cars?
I am just now realizing that an old friend is near death because his gaunt image and pancreatic cancer news has been flashed on the tube. Should I not reflect on this?
How do you react when you hear such news of someone who was a part of your past?
I found out that my old nanny died, and I celebrated. 
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Icelander said: How would you know what life is about for anyone but yourself? Get off your high horse and btw you are just as concerned about winning and losing as anyone else. Your posts demonstrate that.
I don't own a high horse, but if I did own a horse, I don't think I would let him/her smoke any pot. 
If you did, he'd probably be bored out of his mind.
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OrgoneConclusion said:
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Blondell_Letrange said: aawww, just look at you two. You are like the dodgy online father figures I have always wanted.

And you are like the daughter I always wanted to molest. 
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HippieChick8
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OrgoneConclusion said:
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Are you just now realizing that a successful life is not about fancy houses and cars?
I am just now realizing that an old friend is near death because his gaunt image and pancreatic cancer news has been flashed on the tube. Should I not reflect on this?
How do you react when you hear such news of someone who was a part of your past?
I'm not saying you shouldn't reflect on it. I heard about a coworker who died of brain cancer in '99. He died so suddenly I didn't have time to reflect on the process of his dying.
Anyway, what I was trying to say is that in my opinion life isn't about winning. I don't think the 2 Steves are better or worse than you due to their financial situations.
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HippieChick8 said:
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OrgoneConclusion said:
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Are you just now realizing that a successful life is not about fancy houses and cars?
I am just now realizing that an old friend is near death because his gaunt image and pancreatic cancer news has been flashed on the tube. Should I not reflect on this?
How do you react when you hear such news of someone who was a part of your past?
I'm not saying you shouldn't reflect on it. I heard about a coworker who died of brain cancer in '99. He died so suddenly I didn't have time to reflect on the process of his dying.
Anyway, what I was trying to say is that in my opinion life isn't about winning. I don't think the 2 Steves are better or worse than you due to their financial situations.
I would be surprised if anyone was suggesting that.
However financial situations do not only manifest in objects (eg displays of wealth) it can also be a huge bonus for health care.
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But because of what?
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MushroomTrip said: But because of what?
I don't understand the question.
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I was replying to this:
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I don't think the 2 Steves are better or worse than you due to their financial situations.
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Apparently nothing is better or worse than anything else. The whole idea of comparison is meaningless and everything is all the same.
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OrgoneConclusion said: Apparently nothing is better or worse than anything else. The whole idea of comparison is meaningless and everything is all the same.
Everything is ultimately meaningless.
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DieCommie

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Thats not true. Just because meaning is relative, subjective and somewhat arbitrary does not mean it is invalid or nonexistent.
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Re: Me and Steve and Steve [Re: DieCommie]
#13985288 - 02/18/11 03:14 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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DieCommie said: Thats not true. Just because meaning is relative, subjective and somewhat arbitrary does not mean it is invalid or nonexistent.
Ultimately we will all die. I think it is up to Orgone Conclusion to "prove" that he is the winner in the game of life over the 2 Steves. It is not up to me to prove that there are no winners or losers at life.
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I was trying to say is that in my opinion life isn't about winning.
Yet that's what you are all about. You try to thrive (win) within the framework of your personal goals.
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