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I will go with what my Father and Grand father said on Retirement;
"I Wonders sometimes. how I had time to go to work."
Plenty to do in the Garden and House.

 

When i was in Bayawan the dog catchers came around every week a guy on a bike to find and shoot the dog and 3 men in a truck to collect the body. Sounds cruel but every kid could ride a bike or people could walk there dog with out the worry of stray dogs being a problem . But why not here?

 

That reaction would vary depending on our experiences - it is not fixed at birth. Our genes will mostly have expressed themselves by older age but, in some circumstances they may not - I think that certain genes may express themselves only according to the experiences we confront (and perhaps how we deal with them) and this can be at any point in a lifetime. So our reaction would not be the same if we had previous experiences XYZ instead of WXY, for example, or even ZYX (the same experiences as XYZ but in a different order). Perhaps at the moment we are experiencing something that is in itself feeding back into a network (including, crucially, the subconscious as @danbandanna stated) that changes the reaction, or outcome. Free Will depends on experiences and so cannot be free unless we can choose every experience - and even then it depends on making the right decisions and experiencing them in the right order (and no one does that). But I don't agree that early life experiences fix everything for us - some people climb from poverty to wealth and some descend from wealth to poverty. Often there are so many factors involved in those processes that it is like unravelling a millions pieces of string to find the real reasons - a wealthy person could lose everything by gambling and so raise the question 'why did he gamble?' and a poor person could launch a business that makes a billion. Which life experiences led to it? Which ones carried more weight? And many other questions.

 

Well that's a good start to a almost the New Year, ( not that it should make any differences but Rye is also the owner of the forum! )
Guys n Gals the world is in chaos and nobody has the answers what the new year will bring, families are falling into two groups
the forgive's and the forget's.
The forgives forgive and move on and forgets forget none of us are perfect, live and let live, ignore what you dont like, or people
you feel a grievence with, there's a whole lot more out there that is worthy of your concerns.

PS, I left the forum a number of years ago, now I read it, contribute were I feel I keep a positive vibe.
I wish all members Old, New, Past or Present, a very sincere Happy and Healthy New Year in 2021

 

I have never been to a Starbucks and not about to start now. I don't need a $5.00 cup of coffee.

 

A tad too serious, I suspect. So what if he likes to take the p*ss out of himself and Kiwi's or Yanks for that matter... Lighten up it's in meant to be good fun and not attacking anyone personally.

 

Ummm. Welcome to the forum? I think.

 

Who cares if someone criticizes/ trolls/ whatever?

If a stranger/ strangers criticize me I honestly couldn't give a monkeys. By reacting, getting annoyed, or indeed starting a post about it, you are just giving them the attention they desire but don't deserve.

If one ignores them like one would an irritating little child they soon stop