Topic started by Nith :-) (@ spider-wm054.proxy.aol.com) on Fri May 25 11:22:23 .
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I dont know if this fits exactly under the Poems/Kavidaigal section, but I received this from a friend and thought might be interesting to share it with all the Forum Hubbers.
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Interesting Thoughts.............

1. I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
2. No man is worth your tears, and the one who is ,won't make you cry.
3. Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
4. A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.
5. The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have
them.
6. Never frown, even when your are sad, because you never know who is falling in love
with your smile.
7. To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
8. Don't waste your time on a man/woman, who isn't willing to waste their time on you.
9. Maybe God wants us to meet a few wrong people before meeting the right one, so that when we finally meet the person, we will know how to be grateful.
10. Don't cry because it is over, smile because it happened.
11. There's always going to be people that hurt you so what you have to do is keep on trusting and just be more careful about who you trust next time around.
12. Make yourself a better person and know who you are before you try and know someone else and expect them to know you.
13. Don't try so hard, the best things come when you least expect them to.
REMEMBER: WHATEVER HAPPENS, HAPPENS FOR A REASON.

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• From: Mithra (@ 136.181.195.25) on: Fri Jul 6 13:20:30
  
  Thanks Kurankaatti.
  
  -Mithra
  
  
• From: Its me:) (@ 12.3.72.52) on: Tue Jul 24 16:43:01
  
  Wow,This is quite interesting.On my part....
  
  "Kindness in words creates confidence.. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness.. Kindness in giving creates love.."
  
  
• From: The Other Guy (@ ncao.vtcif.telstra.com.au) on: Thu Jul 26 01:10:12
  
  PERSPECTIVE ON LIFE ACCORDING TO GEORGE COSTANZA (Seinfeld):
  "The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A death. What's that, a bonus?!? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you go live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, go collect all your super, then, when you start work, you get a gold watch on your first day. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You drink alcohol, you party, and you get ready for High School. You go to primary school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last 9 months floating with luxuries like central heating, spa, room service on tap, then you finish off as an 0rgasm!
  
  
• From: stg (@ st54-new.aramco.com.sa) on: Sun Aug 5 02:31:53
  
  A similar quote like bishop vincent's .
  'An army of invasions can be resisted but not an idea whose time has come'.. this was said by Victor Hugo.
  
  
• From: Mutziputz (@ netcache2-acld.auckland.clix.net.nz) on: Sun Aug 5 16:37:14
  
  Hi, everyone. I've just been reading and enjoying this thread for the first time. There is a lot of wisdom in many of the postings. Here's a little contribution.
  
  "No incident or event in life is either good or bad, it's how you interpret it, how you handle it as to whether it has a positive or negative influence on your life."
  Prof. Alan McDiarmid. (Winner of the Rutherford Medal, 2000)
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ spider-we033.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Aug 7 14:00:25
  
  Hi all,
  
  I had'nt been here for awhile and I had no idea this thread was still active.
  
  To: The Other Guy,
  
  I loved the George Costanza way of looking at life, its so like George to come up with something like that....Its funny and certainly a fun way of anlyzing life.....Thanks for that.
  
  Cheers,
  Nithya :)
  
  
• From: stg (@ st54-new.aramco.com.sa) on: Wed Aug 8 02:28:47
  
  Some more interesting thoughts though in a diff way. We all hear about patriotism and culture day in and day out by all sorts of persons right from PM to samiyars. Can anyone define patriotism? dont say love for the country for I will ask what is that. Similarly whats culture that everyone wants to preserve at at least want 'others' to follow?
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ spider-mtc-tg041.proxy.aol.com) on: Wed Aug 8 20:06:43
  
  Patriotism is love for the country....If you ask me what's that??? Then its Patriotism.
  
  Cheers
  Nithya :)
  
  
• From: stg (@ st55-new.aramco.com.sa) on: Sat Aug 11 03:20:38
  
  Nithya I see your inability to answer what is patriotism.. dont worry you are not alone .. in fact you are with everyone.
  
  
  
• From: Nithya (@ spider-wa053.proxy.aol.com) on: Sat Aug 11 22:02:37
  
  Hello stg,
  
  I was only kidding around, it had nothing to do with wheather I can answer what's patriotism or not.....I visit this forum for pure relaxation and fun, to sort of get away from the everyday stuff. I dont like getting involved in lenghty serious discussions like some people do in this forum. Sorry to have offended you, again it was just a joke.
  
  Cheers,
  Nithya :)
  
  
  
• From: stg (@ st65-new.aramco.com.sa) on: Sun Aug 12 08:38:21
  
  Oh Nithya sorry to have misread your reply.. take it easy..even my posting was intented only as a hilarious musing not very serious.
  
  
  
• From: (\i)(\b)Nithya (@ spider-wm032.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon Aug 13 17:35:35
  
  (\i)(\b)stg,
  
  (\i)(\b)I dont take people online seriously, so (\i)(\b)no hard feelings.
  
  (\i)(\b)Cheers,
  (\i)(\b)Nithya :)
  
  
• From: (/i)(b)Nithya (@ spider-wm032.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon Aug 13 17:37:30
  
  (/i)(/b)Testing
  
  
• From: (@ spider-wm032.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon Aug 13 17:41:25
  
  
  
  
• From: (@ spider-wm032.proxy.aol.com) on: Mon Aug 13 17:43:52
  
  Sorry for the mess, just trying to turn off the bold and italics.
  
  
  
• From: Mithra (@ 172.147.222.154) on: Mon Aug 13 22:06:26
  
  Okay?
  
  
• From: (@ spider-ta014.proxy.aol.com) on: Tue Aug 14 13:43:26
  
  
  
  
• From: The Other Guy (@ ncao.vtcif.telstra.com.au) on: Wed Aug 15 00:39:47
  
  WHAT is patriotism? Is it love of one's birthplace, the place of childhood's recollections and hopes, dreams and aspirations? Is it the place where, in childlike naivete, we would watch the fleeting clouds, and wonder why we, too, could not run so swiftly? The place where we would count the milliard glittering stars, terror-stricken lest each one "an eye should be," piercing the very depths of our little souls? Is it the place where we would listen to the music of the birds, and long to have wings to fly, even as they, to distant lands? Or the place where we would sit at mother's knee, enraptured by wonderful tales of great deeds and conquests? In short, is it love for the spot, every inch representing dear and precious recollections of a happy, joyous, and playful childhood?
  
  If that were patriotism, few American men of today could be called upon to be patriotic, since the place of play has been turned into factory, mill, and mine, while deafening sounds of machinery have replaced the music of the birds. Nor can we longer hear the tales of great deeds, for the stories our mothers tell today are but those of sorrow, tears, and grief.
  
  What, then, is patriotism? "Patriotism, sir, is the last resort of scoundrels," said Dr. Johnson. Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our times, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment for the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities of life as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the average workingman.
  
  Gustave Hervé, another great anti-patriot, justly calls patriotism a superstition--one far more injurious, brutal, and inhumane than religion. The superstition of religion originated in man's inability to explain natural phenomena. That is, when primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature. Patriotism, on the other hand, is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.
  
  Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me illustrate. Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot, consider themselves better, nobler, grander, more intelligent than the living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill, and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
  
  The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that, from early infancy, the mind of the child is poisoned with bloodcurdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc. When the child has reached manhood, he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country against the attack or invasion of any foreigner. It is for that purpose that we are clamoring for a greater army and navy, more battleships and ammunition. It is for that purpose that America has within a short time spent four hundred million dollars. Just think of it--four hundred million dollars taken from the produce of the people. For surely it is not the rich who contribute to patriotism. They are cosmopolitans, perfectly at home in every land. We in America know well the truth of this. Are not our rich Americans Frenchmen in France, Germans in Germany, or Englishmen in England? And do they not squandor with cosmopolitan grace fortunes coined by American factory children and cotton slaves? Yes, theirs is the patriotism that will make it possible to send messages of condolence to a despot like the Russian Tsar, when any mishap befalls him, as President Roosevelt did in the name of his people, when Sergius was punished by the Russian revolutionists.
  
  It is a patriotism that will assist the arch-murderer, Diaz, in destroying thousands of lives in Mexico, or that will even aid in arresting Mexican revolutionists on American soil and keep them incarcerated in American prisons, without the slightest cause or reason.
  
  But, then, patriotism is not for those who represent wealth and power. It is good enough for the people. It reminds one of the historic wisdom of Frederick the Great, the bosom friend of Voltaire, who said: "Religion is a fraud, but it must be maintained for the masses."
  
  That patriotism is rather a costly institution, no one will doubt after considering the following statistics. The progressive increase of the expenditures for the leading armies and navies of the world during the last quarter of a century is a fact of such gravity as to startle every thoughtful student of economic problems. It may be briefly indicated by dividing the time from 1881 to 1905 into five-year periods, and noting the disbursements of several great nations for army and navy purposes during the first and last of those periods. From the first to the last of the periods noted the expenditures of Great Britain increased from $2,101,848,936 to $4,143,226,885, those of France from $3,324,500,000 to $3,455,109,900, those of Germany from $725,000,200 to $2,700,375,600, those of the United States from $1,275,500,750 to $2,650,900,450, those of Russia from $1,900,975,500 to $5,250,445,100, those of Italy from $1,600,975,750 to $1,755,500,100, and those of Japan from $182,900,500 to $700,925,475.
  
  
  
• From: Its me:) (@ 12.3.72.52) on: Sun Aug 26 03:54:34
  
  "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going"
  
  

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