Why is it that the mind prefers to slumber far from the place right where is needed, it seems to me that life is what happens while you worry about the future. — Ariel D'Leon
Ultimately, it is worry that placed the northern hemisphere societies that elevated them politically and in war industry that helped them to create industrial societies, which subjugated the rest of the world. It was all due to worry, because other features of humans living elsewhere were and are comparably equal to norhtern hemisphere denizens. — god must be atheist
So how about finding the perfect balance between planning and living, how to find the right path, without letting your mind run amok? — Ariel D'Leon
Ah, yes. That's why we northern Europeans are the Master Race. — T Clark
I actually did not say that, and I deny the truth of your statement. — god must be atheist
So how about finding the perfect balance between planning and living, how to find the right path, without letting your mind run amok? — Ariel D'Leon
No. You just spouted some jingoist pseudo-anthropology that said the same thing. — T Clark
Ah, yes. That's why we northern Europeans are the Master Race. — T Clark
I think everyone should read postings through thoroughly before leaving their critical messages. — god must be atheist
Ditto. You are biassed against a posting because you were too tired, too bored, too lazy, or too impatient to read it through.
Please next time don't do this. — god must be atheist
If you switched the races ten thousand years ago, and put the Africans into Europe, and the Europeans into Africa's lands, then the history would have repeated itself, with the only exception that it would have been the African Black race, living in Europe, who would colonize the world. — god must be atheist
Big pictures and small pictures at the same time, with a modicum of lateral thinking thrown in, will learn to harmonise after almost a lifetime! — Fine Doubter
Ultimately, it is worry that placed the northern hemisphere societies that elevated them politically and in war industry that helped them to create industrial societies, which subjugated the rest of the world. It was all due to worry, because other features of humans living elsewhere were and are comparably equal to norhtern hemisphere denizens. — god must be atheist
I think planning and living aren't separate things. As it appears to me all plans are about how people want to live. — TheMadFool
I actually have the opposite problem. I don't worry near as much as I should about the future. — Terrapin Station
Understanding that success and failure is not entirely up to individuals, helps one stay in the present. Worry yes -- but remember a lot of it is out of your control, so relax. — Bitter Crank
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