Alyssa Said:
Lacey, the original poster has been inactive for quite some time, indeed far long than you have even been active. For heaven's sake, this topic is three years old! I really don't understand why you posted here, unless you didn't see the dates.
Please, please, please, people --- when you look at a topic, especially a "related topic" --- pay attention to the dates on it! If not, you risk bumping up an irrelevant topic at the expense of the visibility other topics that are likely of more interest to people. And, you might look rather foolish too!
Lacey Replies:
Hun, I appreciate your sentiment and understand its origin. Kindly consider this, please:
Many years ago, I received an academic scholarship to the best undergraduate college in the U.S.A. at that time ... rated above Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc. That college was at the University of Chicago.
Our courses consisted of The Classics the origins of which were decades and even centuries in the past. Why was that? Because, THE PRINCIPLES were ... TIMELESS! Hence, my alluding to the aforesaid posted thread, of old origin though it may have been. And, why did I do that?
Because, the original topic is as apropos and germane to any TS girl today as when it was originally posted. Hence, there is ageless wisdom contained therein to enrich the lives of all of us. This is precisely why I alluded to it.
Alas, alack and anon, there is no rule, law or decree that pontificates: "Thou shalt not revive posts older than 30 days." Moreover, where there such a decree, then buncombe and balderdash upon it, say I.
So much of modern society is in the undeniable tizzy that it is ... because we ignore the timeless principles of antiquity that guided great societies of yore to resplendent preeminence. May I heartily conject that we would be wise indeed to reassert this most hallowed tradition of learning from the wisdom of the ancients ... when it has proven to be truly wise?
Sorry to come on so strong, Hun. Yes, I can be foolish, true. However, in this case, I surely was not. I dare say that my insight in the referred to post was both prescient and cogent and imparted very good advice ... that is timeless ... not because I say so, but rather because the principles upon which it is based have proven to be most valid ... for centuries.
Remember, Hun, in 1905 and then again in 1913 when Albert Einstein challenged the authority of the Newtonian worldview, sages, pundits and martinets the world over thought him to be a blithering fool ... until the atomic bomb unleashed heretofore un-thought-of efulgence over the poor cities of Hiroshima and then Nagasaki, Japan in 1945. Once that happened, there was irrefutable evidence that he who they thought was an idiot, Albert Einstein, was right after all. By gosh, by golly, by gum, The Fool had instantaneously transmogrified into The Genius. What about him had really changed to bring this most remarkable change in status and esteem about? Not a single scintillum ... except others' PERCEPTION of him. My, oh, my ... Imagine That!
Why was he right? Because, he opened his mind enough to realize what other people COULD HAVE realized but had closed their minds so that they COULD NOT realize the same.
The Point: Open our minds enough to realize that wisdom is wise regardless of its point of origin in history.
If you consider me foolish for honoring proven wisdom of the ages, then I wear the label of Fool with honor, pride and insight! Remember, they called Einstein a fool too for decades ... until he proved to be on to something unthinkably grand that his critics could not even begin to fathom. I rest my case ... its tone and tenor of invective and inveigh notwithstanding!
Sorry to be erudite, avuncular (inasumch as I'm still a guy at this point) and jocund, but, as The Ancients used to say: Q.E.D. or Quad Erat Demonstrandum; i.e., That Which Has Been Shown.
Thanks, Babes!
Hugs!
