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Subject: Re: JUST PASSING THOROUGH - DID SOMEONE MENTION MY NAME????
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 21:21:13 +0100
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Hello Mister OldGuard,
Whenever I see your name in the headers I always like to read what
you have said. It takes me back to when I was a small boy. At the end
of our street was a wooden bench where old men would congregate.
Invariably they would have a slightly musty and slightly unwashed odor
about them and they would regularly spit on the floor in the most
disgusting way they could manage. Whatever they were talking about,
and they were always talking, it was always to complain or to put
other people down. I think they gained some kind of pleasure from
this, from believing that if each agreed with some statement made by
another it somehow reinforced that statement's credibility. What I
think they were missing was that it was all just a load of mumbo-
jumbo concocted and chewed over by a bunch of irrelevant and
slightly obnoxious old farts. It's understandable that as men get older
they get more entrenched in their often misguided beliefs. Certainly
the men at the end of our street were never going to change anyone's
world except the one within the confines of that bench.
But what I suppose I noticed most about these old guys was that they
seemed to have lost all concept of change. We all know that some
things change for the better and some for the worst and while we
possess our faculties we generally make a fair distinction between the
two. But one problem with getting older is that we can lose our
ability to differentiate. Then, everything is bad, everything is worse
than it was and nothing today is ever like the good old days. You
see, what happens to a lot of old men is that they lose their ability to
THINK logically. As children they only knew what to DO, and as
they grew into men they learned how to THINK. Sadly, so many
of them in their advanced years retain only the ability to REMEMBER,
having lost virtually all capablity to DO or THINK anything.
That's a little sad, I suppose, they fail to wash themselves properly
and all kinds of other things. Eventually many develop dementia
after which their failure in life can lead many to become quite
dangerous.
Anyway, nice talking to you Mister OldGuard.
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