Harbal wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 4:24 pm
Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Mar 03, 2023 3:41 pm
That's definitely true. I tried a few times to play when I was younger and didn't have much idea where the ball would end up. All those fidgets and uncoordinated movements of my arms as I swung didn't seem to serve the purpose of getting the ball to where I wanted it until I got a little more accustomed to it, then I could at least manage to intentionally hit a ball roughly in any of four cardinal directions, front, left, right, or backward
My only experience of golf was when my brother-in-law thought I would enjoy a session on a driving range, and I was too polite to say I hated the idea. They gave me a bucket full of balls and a special stick to hit them with. I whacked a few balls into a field until my fear of a dislocated shoulder cured my politeness. There was a tractor with a metal cage around tha cab, which was driving around the field scooping up all the golf balls. I assumed the object of the exercise was to hit the tractor, but found out later that it wasn't, which then left me wondering what other possible reason there could have been for hitting the balls into the field.
Harbal, that’s horrible. That is not how to take it higher. Any slob off the street or artist can wonder, however this is philosophy country. Philosophers are distiguished by their ability to conclude.
This is how to do it, which coincidentally, is how the denizens around the Lake greeted one another. How.
As Wonder tells us, from the beginning time has known to move on. Eventually the tribes moved on from Lake Stupid and were replaced by other tribes. Redheads, yellowheads, brownheads, even whiteheads and blackheads, in addition to atheists, theists, and all the other tribes of “IST” who replaced the redskins. The same events repeat themselves with different players. Redheads now sometimes traveled across the big pond with hopes of joining a soulmate living in another tribe, in nirvana.
Time has not moved on far enough to change the climate so The Lake remains and the legend of The Brave has not only grown grander in these modern times, it has been absorbed into the DNA of all humans and become a primary characteristic that gets activated by secondary conditions such as the luxuries of tolerance, diversity, and worldwide trust. There is a debate whether the legend of The Lake caused what happened next, or whether the legend has persisted by mirroring a human tendency, a tendency that has become a critical factor in the ordering of purpose and action.
That tendency that has become inherent and gets activated by secondary conditions is called The Pilgrimage. Folks have an inherent tendency to travel in order to pay homage. This is an act of reverence and to make that a happy time the journey becomes a celebration. The object of homage, varies. Popular Pilgrimage sites are of course the old ones of religion. New Pilgrimage sites pay homage to the new objects of reverence. Some of these sites are Las Vegas, Disney World, Davos, national parks, Apple Stores, Burning Man, Cherry Blossoms in DC, Battery Land, and so on. Due to the worship gene, most anything can become an object of reverence. In this sense people are like ducklings and will follow most any mother … as their leader.
Like Virtual Reality (VR), and unlike pilgrimages of olden days, virtual homages require relatively little physical movement, if any. One easy access to the Lake Stupid portal from whence the journey launches is Doublethink, and true to its name one must be sophisticated in order to practice Doublethink.
As you can doubtlessly imagine, because of the negative connonations associated with its translated name, Lake Stupid also has many other names. Other translations. These are easily accepted because those who pay homage to The Lake do so with the irony required to live a sophisticated life in Bizarro World without borders.
Even if it were the case that my virtual soul mate online should find you unattractive, I have to say, I can see why other men would find you attractive, Platonically at least.
