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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:27 PM Original message |
How Do You Handle Having Insight |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. I studied rocket science. It's not that hard and it gives you confidence |
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roguevalley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 11:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
65. by holding to the belief that all things are cyclical and that in the end |
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Fredda Weinberg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 12:48 AM Response to Reply #65 |
66. Amen! n/t |
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The Magistrate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. By Cultivating, Ma'am, The Faculty For Morbid Curiousity.... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. Other than considering changing my name to Cassandra |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Like the name Cassandra |
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But.... (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
5. Sis... |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. I've been hanging on |
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But.... (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. Ya got that right... |
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John Q. Citizen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:33 PM Response to Reply #6 |
21. Tom Robbins said, "There are two kinds of people in the world.. One kind thinks there are |
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opihimoimoi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yup, K&R 37465867x times....good one... |
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Tangerine LaBamba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. Hello, and welcome to DU .......... |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Best Post of the Day. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 06:19 PM Response to Reply #8 |
48. That's right |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 08:46 PM Response to Reply #8 |
60. Amen to that... |
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jimshoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:50 PM Response to Original message |
9. A lot of us who post here knew in our hearts |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
11. A large sense of humor, and a bit of humility, helps. |
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ThomWV (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 02:56 PM Response to Original message |
12. One day I was standing on top of a hill in Viet Nam and at once understood |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I totally agree with you |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:27 PM Response to Reply #12 |
19. Agree that Raygun years ruined our country....but |
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tomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:01 AM Response to Reply #19 |
75. you guys are all wrong if you think our demise is that recent. |
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tom_paine (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 09:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
61. "Not the least of which is what cowards we have all become." |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
14. My husband & I both feel we grew up during the best years of the USA. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:12 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I hope the hell the 90's weren't the best time in my life |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Maybe I wasn't clear. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. I hopefully believe |
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CrispyQ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. No problem. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. I had such bigger dreams |
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mwb970 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:08 AM Response to Reply #20 |
70. The 50s and 60s were America's peak, I'm afraid. |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
16. We must be twins separated at birth. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:23 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. Awh my long lost sister |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:35 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. And that, my dear, will be our saving grace. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:43 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. YAY!!!! |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:46 PM Response to Original message |
26. Three ways: |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:49 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Agree |
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dave29 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:41 AM Response to Reply #26 |
68. Funny, my response to the OP was simply going to be |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:34 AM Response to Reply #68 |
72. I have been |
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dave29 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:46 AM Response to Reply #72 |
79. riding home to Bloomington Indiana |
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happydreams (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
29. One thing I do... |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:06 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. Very true |
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trof (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:13 PM Response to Original message |
31. My insight: We aren't going to hell in a handbasket. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:30 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. Need a hummber |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
32. It's a great burden to have insight. Perhaps that's one reason why |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:23 PM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I know what you mean, I had set up a job in Ontario Canada |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:31 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Even if Obama wins and has coattails for Dem Congress, look at what |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 02:05 PM Response to Reply #36 |
84. I had a conversation with a Bosnian guy the other day |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:20 PM Response to Original message |
33. I don't handle it, at least not very well. |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
37. The earth shook and I got the hell outta Dodge. |
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blues90 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 04:56 PM Response to Original message |
38. I look back through it all and realize it was all one long sick joke |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:08 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. We are like in a really bad day |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:13 PM Response to Original message |
40. When I get really distressed about earthly things |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:31 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. But we and the life on this planet are all we've got |
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Blue_In_AK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:39 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. Oh, don't get me wrong, |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:20 PM Response to Original message |
41. I grew up in a community of freethinkers and without television |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:33 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. It sounds like your beginning life was bliss` |
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Tashca (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
45. I read this earlier |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 05:59 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. In 2005 |
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mnhtnbb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 06:37 PM Response to Reply #46 |
49. Wow. Indeed. Helluva rant. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 06:44 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Don't piss me off |
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Tashca (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 10:20 PM Response to Reply #46 |
64. Yes....that is quite the rant |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 06:01 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. And any time I can stimulate |
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NancyG (483 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:04 PM Response to Reply #45 |
53. I remember cringing when an airplane flew overhead. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:21 PM Response to Reply #53 |
57. I went to catholic school |
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latebloomer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 08:20 PM Response to Reply #45 |
59. I too remember being traumatized by the threat of nuclear war |
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proud patriot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
51. hanging on by my fingernails shouting for help |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
52. Live a life of quiet desparation. |
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drexel dave (452 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:06 PM Response to Original message |
54. I predicted the Los Angeles riots two years before they happened, from APPALACHIA |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:07 PM Response to Original message |
55. You've witnessed an incredible amount of change, are and still doing so. |
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Cleita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
56. Good history in a nutshell. |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 07:37 PM Response to Reply #56 |
58. Just making sure |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
62. that curse of insight thing... |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-28-08 09:34 PM Response to Reply #62 |
63. Helps me to |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:14 AM Response to Reply #62 |
71. Curse the lesson and bless the knowledge |
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autorank (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 03:07 AM Response to Original message |
67. You make "knowing" the highest value. Then you're never disappointed. |
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tomp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 09:03 AM Response to Reply #67 |
76. beautiful. thanks. nt |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 06:02 AM Response to Original message |
69. As funny as Carlin is and was...... You need to be part of this |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
73. I am a published poet, and a painter and photographer. |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 08:41 AM Response to Reply #73 |
74. "Most people are afraid/mistrustful/angry at/those people having insight" |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:36 AM Response to Reply #73 |
77. Thank you for your insight |
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RandomKoolzip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
78. I thought the war started in early 2003... |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:50 AM Response to Reply #78 |
81. It did start in 2003 |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
80. Much as you do, I have a very small circle of close friends and, |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 01:21 PM Response to Reply #80 |
82. Glad to know |
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Janeite (43 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 01:51 PM Response to Original message |
83. This is the best discussion on DU |
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seemslikeadream (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
85. It's just a ride |
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lynettebro440 (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jun-29-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #85 |
86. Well I love rollercoasters |
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