Would you rather be famous and rich and applauded for everything you do in life by people who are feigning so as not to offend you and fade into obscurity when you die, or would you rather be ignored in life and have your genius recognized after your death, bringing you eternal fame?
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"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --Solon -
The former without hesitation.Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post"Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtlesigpic -
Who cares about eternal fame? You're dead. You can't enjoy it."The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuaneComment
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Neither. I'd rather not be bothered while I'm living and left alone after death.Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post"Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill
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Show me the money. I will collect my eternal reward by others not of this world.I'm your huckleberry.
"I love pulling the bone. Really though, what guy doesn't?" - CJFComment
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Apparently you haven't retained what you've read of the Classics or Shakespeare.Originally posted by Non Sequitur View Post
I'm not saying you're wrong, but this is a question that has weighed on people's minds for millenia."Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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What is your preference, senor wuap?I'm your huckleberry.
"I love pulling the bone. Really though, what guy doesn't?" - CJFComment
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It's not like Shakespeare opted for temporal obscurity. He was out their hustling, trying to become rich and famous. That he was more appreciated after his death was not his design.Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post"The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuaneComment
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I don't want to taint the class's results.Originally posted by FN Phat View Post"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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I'm talking about the messages in his work, not the man. His oeuvre.Originally posted by Non Sequitur View Post"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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That doesn't seem to have much to do with your original question. His themes dealt with classics and histories, but that was mostly because those were the popular genres of the day.Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post"The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuaneComment
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Think of the speech in Braveheart. "Once more into the breach;" "The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones;" ""Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come."Originally posted by Non Sequitur View Post"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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That speech was given to a bunch of impoverished clansmen in a time when life and death were cheap. You give that speech now to bunch a guys from Alpine Utah with their boats and SUV's and season ski passes and see how valiant they are.Originally posted by wuapinmon View Post"The mind is not a boomerang. If you throw it too far it will not come back." ~ Tom McGuaneComment
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Life is always cheap; death is free.Originally posted by Non Sequitur View Post"Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
The rest of us rarely bother to think about our actions." --SolonComment
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