06-03-2019, 02:58 AM
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Re: Progress and Life
I guess if we take Spitty's characteristically cryptic point a little further and elaborate, perhaps we can explain what we deduce from his "Progress and Life" comment.For me progress in a work capacity ended when I left the RAF in 2000. I had done years and was happy, looking to do my full 22 years service. I would probably have progressed much further staying in and leaving then, moving into a more satisfactory job with better prospects.
This was curtailed because I met my wife a little while beforehand and decided to leave the forces for a life back with her in Hull, finding different employment.
I am so happy to have met my wife and lived with her for the past twenty years but I also think that my working life could have been so much better.
Is this the sort of thing you're getting at, Spitty? Or have I missed the point?
06-03-2019, 08:04 AM
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Re: Progress and Life
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Why is it that in the animal kingdom, only Humans need to progress, such progression being apparent, sometimes in less than one lifespan of an individual being?
However one need only look at isolated pockets of humanity dotted around the world to see they havnt really progressed at all in hundreds possibly thousands of years ( I’m taking certain desert and aboriginal tribes , people on islands untouched by modern man etc) so I’d guess part of us evolution takes us so far , part of us an enquiring mind as to what is the other side of the mountain takes us so far and I imagine a few would even suggest altering of human DNA back in our past has indeed led us to be the only ‘thing’ like us on the planet but that’s a different thread
06-03-2019, 09:43 AM
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Re: Progress and Life
Originally Posted by spitfire
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Why is it that in the animal kingdom, only Humans need to progress, such progression being apparent, sometimes in less than one lifespan of an individual being?
06-03-2019, 10:22 AM
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Re: Progress and Life
Originally Posted by Floydy
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I guess if we take Spitty's characteristically cryptic point a little further and elaborate, perhaps we can explain what we deduce from his "Progress and Life" comment.For me progress in a work capacity ended when I left the RAF in 2000. I had done years and was happy, looking to do my full 22 years service. I would probably have progressed much further staying in and leaving then, moving into a more satisfactory job with better prospects.
This was curtailed because I met my wife a little while beforehand and decided to leave the forces for a life back with her in Hull, finding different employment.
I am so happy to have met my wife and lived with her for the past twenty years but I also think that my working life could have been so much better.
Is this the sort of thing you're getting at, Spitty? Or have I missed the point?
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