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Jester156
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Name: Jeff
Country: United States
State: Arizona
Metro: Phoenix
Gender: Male
Interests: Music. Politics. Government. Military things. Airplanes. Iowa. Christmas. Famiy. Friends. Band. Eating.
Expertise: Making people mad.
Message: message me
AIM:  saxplayer156
Member Since:
11/28/2004
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| "One man, scorned and covered with scars, still strove with his last
ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be
better for this"--Cervantes
Senior year.
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| "The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No
Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless,
set aside a day of thanksgiving."
-- H.U. Westermayer
That the most improverished group of
people in history--after a year of death, of agony, of pain, sickness,
and uncertainty--set aside an entire day to thank God for all that they
had...that is Hope.
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| So here I go:
This girl in my Physics class (she also is in Humanities,
which means she has read Ishmael) was talking about her future
plans. She wants to be an anesthesiologist. That's all
great and everything, if you're doing it for the right reasons, but her
reason is so she can have a lot of money to go home to every
night. So she can live in a big house and have a big-screen
TV. What she really wants to do is be an actress, but can't stand
the hard work she might have to go through to make it.
The guy that sits next to her, and the girl that sits in front of him
have similar aspirations and are similarly going to destroy their
lives. I cannot even fathom why they believe that having money
and a large house is all there
is to happiness. Yes, it helps. I admit that openly and
freely...it helps. But it's not everything! To me, it's
hardly anything. Do what you want to do and live your life with
whom you want to live it.
Marry someone you love. Work a job you love. Live where you
want to live. Travel to places you want to see. "Go
confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've
imagined!"- Thoreau. Do not shy in the face of hard work or
adversity...rise up and meet it head on. That's how you have a
good life.
Crazytown:
In 1910 football teams were penalized 15 yards for an incomplete forward pass.
Ancient Romans at one time used human urine as an ingredient in their toothpaste.
This year, more than 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers!
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| One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a figure in
the distance. As he got closer, he realized the figure was that
of a boy picking up and gently throwing something into the ocean.
Approaching the boy, he asked, "What are you doing?"
The youth replied, "Throwing starfish into the ocean. You see,
the sun is coming up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw
them in, they'll die."
"Son," the man said, "don't you realize there are miles and miles of
beach and hundreds and thousands of starfish? You cannot possibly
make a difference."
After listening politely, the boy bent down, picked up another
starfish, and threw it into the ocean. Then smiling at the man,
he said, "but I made a difference for that one."
--Loren Eiseley
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| I wish we lived by nature. Specifically, I would like to live in
a suburban-esque town (all the amenities and such) but with a forest
about a block from my house that I could take a walk in and get lost
forever...or until I wanted to go home. I've never been anywhere
that seemed like I could get lost and no one could find me and,
frankly, I want that right now. Not because I want to die or
become a recluse or because I'm mad at my friends and want to get
away...just because I want to be in nature and experience some of this
stuff Whitman and Thoreau were talking about. (Yes, English
actually did something to/for me.) I think it would be very nice
to go into the woods either alone or with one or two friends and just
sit and think in silence. Once we had our little breakthroughs,
we could either talk about them or drive/walk back home in silence—I
really wouldn't care. I just want to experience the feeling of
the possibility of getting
lost in something so large and powerful and undiscovered and untouched
as a forest. I don't know why I thought of all that, but I know I
was outside making a call in the perfect weather and thought wow, that fence, shed, pool, and house are really tacky...go away fence, shed, pool and house!
This brings me to my next point. Okay, it really doesn't but I
like the saying. I have made a lot of bad decisions throughout
the course of this school year—most of them early on— and then I spent
a lot of time feeling regretful when I lost the stuff I had
gained. I now realize that I was stupid and I couldn't have
anything better than I have now. The people who don't like me,
the people who hate me, the people who talk about me behind my back are
inevitable. What I have now is better, so thank you—all of
you—for sticking with me, even though I was pretty much a stuck-up jerk
to all of you. If you have any ill-feelings, please bring them up
to me so I can try to make things right.
I've been looking for a funny little story (fact or fiction) I could
tell to make people laugh so if anyone has one, please post it for me
and/or send it to me. 
"If you’re going to be able to look
back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it
now." Marie Osmond
"It's not me who can't keep a secret, it's the people I tell who can't." Abraham Lincoln
"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows...for love is the beauty of the soul." (Saint Augustine)
- There are more nutrients in the cornflake package itself than there are in the actual cornflakes.
- WAL-MART generates $3,000,000.00 in revenues every 7 minutes
- World’s heaviest primates: morbidly obese humans. After that: gorillas at 485 lbs.
- McDonalds' salads contain up to 60% more fat than their burgers
The facts are supposed to be blue...are they on your computer?
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