(12-29-2021, 07:50 PM)BIAD Wrote: You scare me at times.
Nah, I'm mostly harmless. Just knowing how to do something and having a wee bit of practice at it is not the same thing as doing it now. If there is no need for it's use, it just stays dormant, locked in my head where it can do no harm!
I mean, Oppenheimer knew how to make nuclear bombs, but he didn't go 'round blowing stuff up with them all the time!
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’