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Apr 20, 2014 - 9:59 AM
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dan the man
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When one gets older, not as silly, we still do interesting things based on personal likings. For instance the name of our kids. In my family such examples were, My aunt named her 2 kids on movie stars she loved -TYRONE- TYRONE POWER, CARY- CARY GRANT-Other relatives included- MAUREEN- MAUREEN O HARA, her kids she wanted to keep the rhyme going so she named her kids, JEANNINE, CHRISTINE, I am surprised she didn't name her third kid EILEEN, instead she went with TANYA, YES, because of TANYA TUCKER.
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Apr 22, 2014 - 4:54 PM
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Grecchus
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Dan, I see you're trying really hard.
You could do a lot worse than go read a book about, say, Maxwell's equations. I'm getting on in years, now, and I've always wanted to have a crack at some understanding of the forces at work when electricity flows down a wire. These are things we are all guilty of taking for granted because we know that using electricity around the house requires no real understanding in order to gain some benefit from using it. I doubt there are many of us who have not experienced what it's like to have 240-250 volts pass unintentionally through us at some point.
In view of these simple facts, I find it incredible there can be anyone around who doesn't at some point feel guilty for not applying themselves to understand something so fundamentally important and interesting when the opportunity is there to be had. To actively grasp at qualitative and quantitative information by the most direct of questions seems to be something for which most people are more than prepared to let someone else assume the mantle of responsibility.
Take, for instance, Flight 93. It, no doubt, became apparent to many of the passengers on that plane they were not going to get to their destination unless they themselves actively took part in attempting to wrest back control of the plane from the monsters prepared to destroy them for reasons effectively beyond comprehension. All those people probably got to experience things we mainly have the luxury of contemplating from a distance, without ever really having to own up to the particulars of that reality by getting our fingers unnecessarily dirty.
To remain confounded by our own circumstances is generally the route most of us go. Pity.
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