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Post by BADGER on May 29, 2006 2:44:20 GMT
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Post by BADGER on May 29, 2006 2:59:06 GMT
What i have lived for.
By Bertrand Russell 1872/1970 (Welsh Poet)
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair. I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness--that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found.
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.
Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.
This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.
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Post by floog on May 29, 2006 4:21:16 GMT
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Post by Les on May 29, 2006 7:00:48 GMT
:sozzled: :sheep: :sozzled: :sheep: :sozzled: :sheep: :whisky: Happy Bithday Bernie, hope its a good one.
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Post by bikesnoopy on May 29, 2006 7:55:20 GMT
HHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHDDDDDDAAAAAAYYYYYY Bernie boy...not a boy any more. . .
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Post by Kwackers on May 29, 2006 8:34:48 GMT
:whisky: Happy Birthday Beeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrnnnnnnnniiiiiiiiiieeeeeee! :whisky: :kma:
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Post by Renegade on May 29, 2006 8:52:55 GMT
Happy birthday mate
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on May 29, 2006 15:05:31 GMT
Hapus pen-blwydd bernard Cadwch Loegr yn lan. Danfonwch y sbwriel i Cymru! ;D
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Post by BADGER on May 29, 2006 23:13:21 GMT
Thats racist
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on May 29, 2006 23:19:09 GMT
No, it's common sense.
:mut:
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Post by BADGER on May 29, 2006 23:41:26 GMT
arrr , so your calling the Welsh Common
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Post by lightspeed on May 30, 2006 0:06:04 GMT
MICHAEL, GREM, GO TO YOUR ROOMS, and don't come out until yer ready to talk nicely. or at least go to the bar and tip a few till yer mellowed out! We don't need to reopen the English/Welsh conflicts
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Post by BADGER on May 30, 2006 0:08:43 GMT
was only having a bit of fun. any way he started it
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Post by Renegade on May 30, 2006 23:03:09 GMT
Hapus pen-blwydd bernard Cadwch Loegr yn lan. Danfonwch y sbwriel i Cymru! ;D uuuuuuuuuuh !
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Post by ZRX Gremlin on May 30, 2006 23:31:05 GMT
uuuuuuuuuuh ! ;D That's me off the hook then.
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