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To: ransomnote
when it comes right down to it, the foundation of our discontent is that we were raised to think of life as "fair"....that govt is "fair"...that people are righteous and not devious...

even at my age of 67 it still stings to know that life, and the govt is NOT fair....far from it....

we have to fight for our crumbs, thru thick and thin....that is just the truth.....never more obvious then this fight of good vs evil, patriotic vs traitor...

nothing shocks me anymore...nothing....

972 posted on 05/08/2021 11:20:19 AM PDT by cherry (we are the dominionated)
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To: cherry

My biggest disappointment is that I always thought mankind was getting better but it seems to me it’s gotten dramatically worse. Still fighting the same battles we were in 1960 and probably 1900 was the same. waving the bloody shirt. race riots. concessions. Shake downs. Union thugs. Jobs you just can’t have unless you’re “connected”. Tawdry.


986 posted on 05/08/2021 12:25:45 PM PDT by ichabod1 (#notmypresident #resisttyranny #resisttranny)
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To: cherry

even at my age of 67 it still stings to know that life, and the govt is NOT fair....far from it....
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I’m not going to touch the idea of a government being fair, cherry, but as for life, I’ll guess that you were never a golfer. Occasionally, you’ll hit the most magnificent shot that hits a sprinkler head and takes a sideways jump in a completely wrong direction and ends up in a poor and undeserved spot.

Other times, you’ll hit a dreadful shot that deserves to come to rest in a pond or somewhere in the forest, never to be seen again, but it hits a stone or a tree and is deflected back into a great but equally undeserved spot. It doesn’t take even a week of playing for a golfer to quickly discover that golf is not fair, or even meant to be so ... just like life.

I think golfers learn this sooner than some due to the harsh and solitary nature of the game. Its unpredictable bounces have parallels to life’s bounces, though without the specter of death. It sounds hyperbolic, but playing golf has probably made me a more adaptable and cheerful human being.


1,055 posted on 05/08/2021 4:06:40 PM PDT by LittleLinda
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