05-12-2018, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by spitfire
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So do I.
05-12-2018, 11:39 PM
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forget all that Phd stuff on snowlakes or it's use to denigrate people - the excitement of waking one morning, opening up the curtains and watching snow flakes fall gentle done [baring storms of course!] has never left me and four years ago it happened in the state of Victoria where I resided for a while. you can see it every year in the aussie snow fields - I call it God shaking off his dandruff - it is blessed and sent with love!05-12-2018, 11:42 PM
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Originally Posted by gumbud
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forget all that Phd stuff on snowlakes or it's use to denigrate people - the excitement of waking one morning, opening up the curtains and watching snow flakes fall gentle done [baring storms of course!] has never left me and four years ago it happened in the state of Victoria where I resided for a while. you can see it every year in the aussie snow fields - I call it God shaking off his dandruff - it is blessed and sent with love!
Where is the mountain story Gummy?
High on a hill stood a lonely .......
05-12-2018, 11:48 PM
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I , like JEM, enjoy recalling some of the old accounts of early days on this EarthI particularly recall the account of Alexander the Great, the greatest leader and soldier the world has ever known.
that's what he reckoned anyway.
Alexander was in awe of Diogenes, the greatest thinker the world has ever known.
from wiki, I've run out of puff
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According to legend, Alexander the Great came to visit the Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. Alexander wanted to fulfill a wish for Diogenes and asked him what he desired.[5] According to the version recounted by Diogenes Laėrtius, Diogenes replied "Stand out of my light."[6] Plutarch provides a longer version of the story:
Thereupon many statesmen and philosophers came to Alexander with their congratulations, and he expected that Diogenes of Sinope also, who was tarrying in Corinth, would do likewise. But since that philosopher took not the slightest notice of Alexander, and continued to enjoy his leisure in the suburb Craneion, Alexander went in person to see him; and he found him lying in the sun. Diogenes raised himself up a little when he saw so many people coming towards him, and fixed his eyes upon Alexander. And when that monarch addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, "Yes," said Diogenes, "stand a little out of my sun."[7] It is said that Alexander was so struck by this, and admired so much the haughtiness and grandeur of the man who had nothing but scorn for him, that he said to his followers, who were laughing and jesting about the philosopher as they went away, "But truly, if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."[8]
06-12-2018, 02:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Sweetie pie
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It is lovely to look at, but too cold to hold.Where is the mountain story Gummy?
High on a hill stood a lonely .......
"High on the hill stood a lonely goat turd''.
[I always wondered how they got away with those lyrics...]
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