Seasons

*pats footnote* What a nice little footnote.

What if people make imperfect choices in an imperfect world based on the best they can do at a given time given the information and skills they have?

All choices are imperfect by their nature - they risk an ineffective cause excluding a more desirable future effect. But I do not presume to weigh relative merits accurately in the scales of what limited wisdom I might or might not possess. And I greatly distrust those who claim to be able to.

I have only the power to choose my own actions. I cannot choose for others, nor predict the outcomes of any of the choices that are made. I just have (what to many people may seem an entirely irrational) faith that it will work out alright in the end.

If it doesn't, please feel free at the end of time to tell me that you told me so.


<-1>Ψ<0> - a footnote for prob

Ψ - a footnote for prob *grabbing foot note and running quotes line from cheap fantasy book.* Truth without morals has no dominion. Guess it works both ways..morals without truth have no dominion

It works all ways

Truth without morals has no dominion

womanhood shouts nutritional mirth
withhold trim humorous annotations

anagrams and sticks, that's all Reality is.

Hey! Her footnote is Greek! I want a fancy Greek footnote too!

*Looks at branches and sees fractals*

Man is heroic? How?

Man is only men (and women). And some men (and women) are heroic. Take Martin Niemöller (something of a hero to me at least,) - a thoroughly unpleasant and bigotted antisemite in his early days, but I'd have to consider him more than redeemed by his 8 years in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps and subsequent liflong activism in many spheres.

It's easy to be heroic when you don't have to stand up for your beliefs in the face of persecution or death, or are too proud or conceited to change beliefs you come to realize are unworthy, but he's an example of heroism I hold dear to my heart.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Niem%C3%B6ller

Hey! Her footnote is Greek! I want a fancy Greek footnote too!

και σί?

<-1>ΩΚ - μὴ οὖν μεριμνήσητε εἰς τὴν αὐριον, ἡ γὰρ αὐριον μεριμνήσει ἑαυτῆς· ἀρκετὸν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἡ κακία αὐτῆς.<0>

Under the terrible pun of it's all Greek to me. I have tried several Greek English translators with no luck..What does that mean?

"you too?

OK - take therefore no thought for the morrow, for the morrow shall take care for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

(Matthew 6:34 - one of my favourite precepts, and slightly relevant in a discussion about consequences)

I agree with Prob123. This was my original response:

Ddiolch Psimagus , namyn online chyfieithwyr ydy mo iawn da. Beth ddeudaist?

You don't have to answer. Did you know there are no Welsh words for "Psimagus" or "online"? Go figure. I'll bet they have thousands of words for "Eliminate the vowels; it will drive the rest of them nuts." and "Be careful! He's got bagpipes!"

Irina--did you notice the Greek footnotes propagating? See there, Ψ propagates. In fact, looking at the way it gyrates with Prob, I'd say it dances like a hoochie momma.

Ddiolch Psimagus , namyn online chyfieithwyr ydy mo iawn da. Beth ddeudaist?

Da iawn! Am wni ar gyfer "online" defnyddiwn "rhyngrwyddol" (jyst ansoddair, llythrennol "internetting",) yn Ngymraeg<-2>1<0>.<0><0> They're reliable enough for basic communication, but it'll be a few years before there's software that can properly handle the consonant mutations (let alone dialects.)

"Eliminate the vowels; it will drive the rest of them nuts."

Cela'r lafariaid; amhwyllan!

and "Be careful! He's got bagpipes!"

Perygl! Caiff pibgod!


<-2>1<-2> - Don't trust my grammar - I learnt my Welsh from road signs and Max Boyce tapes!