Like the illusion of Wall Street, with its vast and powerful investment banks, now shuttered, China too is an illusion perpetuated by the Globalists that gave us the 15,000 mile Caesar salad, poisoned cat food and lead based paint on babies' pacifiers. Like the illusion that money would come from thin air to always push housing prices higher, China has spent a generation pursuing its illusion. Pursuing an unattainable dream to be like the West, while 6000 years of its carefully shepherded top soil blows into the sea.
Joined: Apr 08, 2006 Posts: 1464 Location: Somewhere there
Posted: Mon Aug 11, 2008 10:57 pm Post subject: Things not to miss thread
When I was growing up in a poor family behind the Iron Curtain, I thought I will do it all. I thought I will see it all. I never had a single doubt. Now, with three passports in the pocket and higher than average income l realize how much of all precious things I will miss , no matter what. How many good books I will never read; how many natural sceneries I will never see; how many works of art will never touch any of my senses. I find it to be very sad, to say the least. Life is short, and a lot of time is wasted.
Lets list here everything that is worth doing/seeing/reading/hearing/tasting/expierencing/ets.
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:01 am Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
Don't miss your change to spend time with your closest ones. You don't know when you'll lose them. _________________ The best about PO is that it constantly unbores me.
Joined: May 06, 2006 Posts: 873 Location: Tustin, CA
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:11 am Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
I would add these:
-The South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I am not easily impressed; but the first time I saw it from the road even before we parked the car, I exclaimed "LOOK HOW BIG IT IS"!!
-The Stars from Glacier Point, Yosemite (good view of Half Dome from there too). Go this summer or maybe next when there will be Amateur Astronomers with Big Telescopes to show you Galaxies 70 to 100 million light years away!
-The evening horizon an hour or more after sunset from any Western Pacific Island (I lived on Guam in the Marianas for 2 years). If you sit on a beach in a place that is dark, you can watch lightning bolts a hundred miles out at sea light up anvil head clouds like a lantern. In the late spring you might see the stars of the Southern Cross placed right next to it! _________________ Skeptical scrutiny in both Science and Religion is the means by which deep thoughts are winnowed from deep nonsense-Carl Sagan
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Joined: Nov 25, 2006 Posts: 1543 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:45 am Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
s0ul5 wrote:
Don't miss your change to spend time with your closest ones. You don't know when you'll lose them.
Word. And if any of them start talking suicide don't assume their just a big puss who won't do it.
IMO, women are more intersting than any art museum or cultural artifacts, if I had it do over I'd flirt, connect, perhaps get physical (though the chase is usually better than the catch) with dozens more. I'm grateful for all my hobbies, even my Internet forum addiction. F*ck it, every moment is beautiful in it's own way. I'm happier here posting, on the couch, leaning on a pile of unfolded laundered clothes, by the light of my LED lights than following some tour guide's itinerary.
I wish I had more confidence when I was younger, but these things come with age. I wish I learned about many of the things I now know when I was earlier. I wish a lot of things but but wish-washing I'm just killing more time & I don't want to do that. Learn the lesson --> move on. As best as possible anyway. _________________ My PO Amazon store (shameless plug).
Joined: Sep 03, 2007 Posts: 640 Location: Sunny Virginia, USA
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:40 am Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
Sticking your feet into the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, the great lakes, and the Gulf of Mexico.
A summer weekend camping in Northern Wisconsin, a week in the Blue Ridge Mountains during the fall, and a winter month in Arizona. 4th of July in Washington, DC.
Speaking of DC, go and see the Declaration of Independence, the monuments, and the museums. It will take weeks to do it right but even a weekend will give you a good glimpse of our country's history.
Disney Land and World, Sunset in Clearwater, FL, Mardi Gras, and sunrise on any unspoiled mountain. _________________ When somebody makes a statement you don't understand, don't tell him he's crazy. Ask him what he means. -- Otto Harkaman, Space Viking
Joined: Oct 23, 2005 Posts: 1851 Location: East of Eden
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:53 pm Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
SILENTTODD wrote:
-The South Rim of the Grand Canyon. I am not easily impressed; but the first time I saw it from the road even before we parked the car, I exclaimed "LOOK HOW BIG IT IS"!!
I had exactly the same reaction! Any photo you've seen is barely even a vague likeness. _________________ "If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst." — Thomas Hardy
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:24 pm Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
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Enjoying an evening at the Flying J Ranch in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
I had a g/f who asked if we could go to the Flying J when we were in New Mexico. She had been there as child.
It was a fun place, they did a nice job, but it was not mind blowing to me. But she smiled from ear to ear all night long! I see her expression in my mind's eye to this day.
Take someone where they would love to go and enjoy their joy!
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 11:43 pm Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
Just got back from 10 days camping in the Eastern Oregon high desert. Seven days on a mountaintop 100 miles from the nearest town. Watched the sun come up, the clouds move across the sky, listened to the coyotes howl at sunset, set out and watched the meteors in the darkest sky I've ever seen. Read some Discworld novels. No radio, phone or news.
Sunday we hit a rock moving to another camp site, killed the engine. Spent a day and half on a ridge at 6000 feet 35 miles from the nearest thing most people would call a road tearing things apart and putting them back together again, got it running well enough to make it 300 miles home in 3d gear.
Trips to the desert are highly recommended despite the intrusion of too much adventure at times.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 10:24 pm Post subject: Re: Things not to miss thread
Fiddlerdave wrote:
Quote:
Enjoying an evening at the Flying J Ranch in Ruidoso, New Mexico.
I see her expression in my mind's eye to this day.
Take someone where they would love to go and enjoy their joy!
What a nice post. I spent a few days in Ruidoso once, with my DH. It was a "home" place for him, exotic for me. It was a very happy time.
I've spent a little time in most states, Mexico and Canada. Would love to go farther away, Bali sounds like heaven. May get to Hawaii next year.
But the best thing of all is connecting with other humans (nature) in those places. The real experiences. I don't want to ride on a tour bus or visit the zoo. I know you all know the feeling. What man has made is sometimes astounding, but what God has made is always so.
Oh yeah, that ocean pic made me remember, if you're so inclined, try mushrooms on an ocean beach in the snow. Very powerful.
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