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    Quote Originally Posted by domer76 View Post
    Yeah, I get all that.

    I had my 50th high school reunion this weekend. Enjoyable and depressing at the same time. Some still look pretty good, some like death warmed over.

    The difference, I noted, was that those who looked the best were those that were physically active. Not the same as when we were in high school, of course. But, at a more moderate pace. Some walked and hiked versus running. Some changed from tennis to pickleball. That type of thing.

    I saw it in my parents and my wife’s parents. When one quits moving, that’s the beginning of the end.

    Keep moving, man!
    I think that is excellent advice.

    I still exercise.
    I also meditate.
    (though neither enough)

    One helps the body.
    One helps the mind.
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    'And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .

    So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.”'


    Hunter S. Thompson

    The ending of his famous, 'Wave Speech'.

    https://genius.com/Hunter-s-thompson...egas-annotated


    For me?

    That was late August, 1998.

    'That place where the wave finally broke...and rolled back'.


    That was the point where I first began to contemplate (subsequently)...that humans had hit their high water mark - for my generation, at least (Gen X'ers).
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    Quote Originally Posted by McRocket View Post
    'The main problem in any democracy is that crowd-pleasers are generally brainless swine who can go out on a stage & whup their supporters into an orgiastic frenzy - then go back to the office & sell every one of the poor bastards down the tube for a nickel apiece. Probably the rarest form of life in American politics is the man who can turn on a crowd & still keep his head straight - assuming it was straight in the first place.'

    'The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low'.
    Trump and his cultists in a nutshell. ^^^^^

    Described to a T.

    Or a tee.
    https://i.postimg.cc/PqVCnGks/gojoe1.jpg
    C'MON MAN!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nomad View Post
    Trump and his cultists in a nutshell. ^^^^^

    Described to a T.

    Or a tee.


    I must admit that 'Trump Rally's' was the first thing that crossed my mind while I was posting that.

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    I think his best quote is When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

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    'Buy the Ticket.
    Take the ride'.


    Hunter S. Thompson

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