Thought for the day

[2020hindsight]

Consider sacrificing your participle at the beginning of a sentence but never, if it is dangling.

lol, good one noi, - had to go look it up to refresh my memory

"Walking back home yesterday, a tree nearly fell on my head."
If logic is applied to that sentence, it would mean that the tree was walking back home: the subject of the main clause of a sentence (here, a tree) is assumed to be the subject of a phrase attached to the main clause.

http://www.usu.edu/markdamen/WritingGuide/10dangpt.htm

Dangling Participles. Adjectives ending in -ing (and sometimes -ed) are called participles and must be used with care. :

After being whipped fiercely, the cook boiled the egg.
Flitting gaily from flower to flower, the football player watched the bee.

 

[noirua]

There are only two things that taste like fish and one is fish, the other is ...

Whilst composing a thought for the day, fell off blackberry, trampled by bulls and beasts?

 

[noirua]

At times in life we have to make the best wrong decision from a group of them. Having made that decision we must turn that favoured wrong decision into a right decision.
How clever a person is and the wealth they were born into fades into the sunset compared to making the right decisions and very many of them - good luck my friends.

 

[noirua]

Do you tend, more, to talk the talk instead of walking the walk?????????????

 

[bassmanpete]

Some people talk the talk, others talk and walk, and still others walk the walk; I just walk. What does that mean? Buggered if I know!

 

[noirua]

Do you tend, more, to talk the talk instead of walking the walk?????????????

Some people talk about doing it whilst others do the job, and they who talk continue to talk the talk whilst watching others walk, as in walk the walk. This in life that is, achievement of doing it against talking about it - [I'm tired now of walking the walk and increasingly move to talking the talk.]

 

[Buckeroo]

At times in life we have to make the best wrong decision from a group of them. Having made that decision we must turn that favoured wrong decision into a right decision.
How clever a person is and the wealth they were born into fades into the sunset compared to making the right decisions and very many of them - good luck my friends.

Mmmm, deep thoughts here. The decisions we make are sometimes wrong because our priorities are screwed.

An example - consider the important things in life list:

Family
Health
Friends
Leisure
Education
Work
Status
Money
Possessions

How important is money & possessions in peoples lives when compared to the other things in the list. Then, consider how much time we spend pursuing these.

Yes, I'm guilty just as much as the next person

Cheers

 

[noirua]

Check that hotel room so carefully or you may wake up dead.

 

[noirua]

The secret of happiness is being able, everyday, to live in the present.

 

[MrBurns]

If you're happy with what you've got you're a wealthy person.

 

[noirua]

If you're happy with what you've got you're a wealthy person.

That is easy said but most people look forward and do not therefore live in the present. So being "happy with what you've got", could be a false reasoning.

 

[MrBurns]

That is easy said but most people look forward and do not therefore live in the present. So being "happy with what you've got", could be a false reasoning.

The theory is impeccable.
There are some who are happy with their lot, but they are in the minority I admit.

 

[noirua]

The theory is impeccable.
There are some who are happy with their lot, but they are in the minority I admit.

I can't see that's true at all though (except with some who have learning difficulties- in a politely put manner, of course). It is reported that elderly people with nothing to look forward to are happiest in their living in the present.

Stressed up people are often quite young, or married with or without children living at home or even worse, stressed up youngsters living on their own and pretending they're managing but only because of dollops of support they don't acknowledge.

Mind you this blog could put a different picture on it: http://Kansassunflower.blogspot.com/2006/07/nothing-to-look-forward-to.html

 

[MrBurns]

I can't see that's true at all though (except with some who have learning difficulties- in a politely put manner, of course). It is reported that elderly people with nothing to look forward too are happiest in their living in the present.

Stressed up people are often quite young, or married with or without children living at home or even worse, stressed up youngsters living on their own and pretending they're managing but only because of dollops of support they don't acknowledge.

Not quite with you on all of that BUT getting back to basics, the theory is that if you're wealthy you're happy.

Therefore if you're happy with what you've got you're already wealthy.

It's complicated because why should a man give up the desire to own a Ferrari for instance, it's hormones isn't it so even though perhaps at some stage we should be happy ...we want more, it's always a case of wanting more isn't it ? Ever since Oliver Twist.

The pursuit of happiness or contentment is a case for a whole new thread, please go ahead and create one

 

[noirua]

Not quite with you on all of that BUT getting back to basics, the theory is that if you're wealthy you're happy.

Therefore if you're happy with what you've got you're already wealthy.

It's complicated because why should a man give up the desire to own a Ferrari for instance, it's hormones isn't it so even though perhaps at some stage we should be happy ...we want more, it's always a case of wanting more isn't it ? Ever since Oliver Twist.

The pursuit of happiness or contentment is a case for a whole new thread, please go ahead and create one

If you are looking forward you cannot be happy because you are not living in the present. Having wealth could make a person look forward to using or how to give it away, they can't be happy therefore.

 

[MrBurns]

If you are looking forward you cannot be happy because you are not living in the present. Having wealth could make a person look forward to using or how to give it away, they can't be happy therefore.

Cant agree there, I think looking forward is just living your life watching kids grow watching Labor Govts fall (sorry couldnt resist) I dont think looking forward excludes the possibility of attaining happiness or being as it is being "wealthy"

 

[Julia]

If you are looking forward you cannot be happy because you are not living in the present. Having wealth could make a person look forward to using or how to give it away, they can't be happy therefore.

Disagree, Noirua. Why can't someone be happy about having enough wealth to meet his/her needs, thus allowing ongoing pleasure in everyday living, plus have the happy thought that in the future they will never have to struggle?

 

[noirua]

Disagree, Noirua. Why can't someone be happy about having enough wealth to meet his/her needs, thus allowing ongoing pleasure in everyday living, plus have the happy thought that in the future they will never have to struggle?

The secret of happiness is living in the present without need for a future.

 

[noirua]

Cant agree there, I think looking forward is just living your life watching kids grow watching Labor Govts fall (sorry couldnt resist) I dont think looking forward excludes the possibility of attaining happiness or being as it is being "wealthy"

Ah yes! Looking forward [the future] which indicates future. Happiness requires no thought of the future only the present.

 

[MrBurns]

The secret of happiness is living in the present without need for a future.

Happiness is understranding the human condition and accepting that we all will die one day.