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GOAT

Tiger really wants to be the GOAT, but since he’s lucky to still have two legs after driving over a cliff at 80 mph*, he’ll have to settle for second place in the statistics. Jack Nicklaus (The Golden Bear) still sits on top of that GOAT mountain.


* an act of self-sabotage
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Beget
To procreate as the father.

1 John 5:18 kjv
We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
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Walker wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:01 am GOAT

Tiger really wants to be the GOAT, but since he’s lucky to still have two legs after driving over a cliff at 80 mph*, he’ll have to settle for second place in the statistics. Jack Nicklaus (The Golden Bear) still sits on top of that GOAT mountain.


* an act of self-sabotage
Right, because golf has been around 'for all time' :lol:
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vegetariantaxidermy wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:15 pm
Walker wrote: Sat Jul 16, 2022 3:01 am GOAT

Tiger really wants to be the GOAT, but since he’s lucky to still have two legs after driving over a cliff at 80 mph*, he’ll have to settle for second place in the statistics. Jack Nicklaus (The Golden Bear) still sits on top of that GOAT mountain.


* an act of self-sabotage
Right, because golf has been around 'for all time' :lol:
Golf was born in Scotland but it will never die. That's because it is ever so great, probably the GOAT of sports. Only you can beat yourself in the golf game, and yet paradoxically, the competition raises the level of your game. This is why it is so shocking that Tiger would self-sabotage. Such a great one does not become so great by self-sabotaging. Does he? The question arises because of the personal lives of Rama, Milarepa and others, before they became well-known names to some households. Not many know the last temptation before the mountaintop.
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Walker wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:00 pm
Golf was born in Scotland but it will never die. That's because it is ever so great, probably the GOAT of sports. Only you can beat yourself in the golf game, and yet paradoxically, the competition raises the level of your game. This is why it is so shocking that Tiger would self-sabotage. Such a great one does not become so great by self-sabotaging. Does he? The question arises because of the personal lives of Rama, Milarepa and others, before they became well-known names to some households. Not many know the last temptation before the mountaintop.
I think it is a sign that we need to question our values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous for being good at hitting a little ball with a stick.
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Harbal wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 4:30 pm
Walker wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:00 pm
Golf was born in Scotland but it will never die. That's because it is ever so great, probably the GOAT of sports. Only you can beat yourself in the golf game, and yet paradoxically, the competition raises the level of your game. This is why it is so shocking that Tiger would self-sabotage. Such a great one does not become so great by self-sabotaging. Does he? The question arises because of the personal lives of Rama, Milarepa and others, before they became well-known names to some households. Not many know the last temptation before the mountaintop.
I think it is a sign that we need to question our values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous for being good at hitting a little ball with a stick.
Feel free to question your values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous doing what you cannot do.
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Walker wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:02 am
Feel free to question your values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous doing what you cannot do.
Of all the things that could have made me rich and famous had I been able to do them, not being able to play golf is probably the one I have the least regrets about.
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Walker wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:02 am
Harbal wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 4:30 pm
Walker wrote: Thu Jul 28, 2022 3:00 pm
Golf was born in Scotland but it will never die. That's because it is ever so great, probably the GOAT of sports. Only you can beat yourself in the golf game, and yet paradoxically, the competition raises the level of your game. This is why it is so shocking that Tiger would self-sabotage. Such a great one does not become so great by self-sabotaging. Does he? The question arises because of the personal lives of Rama, Milarepa and others, before they became well-known names to some households. Not many know the last temptation before the mountaintop.
I think it is a sign that we need to question our values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous for being good at hitting a little ball with a stick.
Feel free to question your values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous doing what you cannot do.
When one is in a certain age the priority is having the next birthday where the same priority exists.
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Dubious wrote: Sat Jul 30, 2022 10:14 pm When one is in a certain age the priority is having the next birthday where the same priority exists.
Fer sure. In the last three decades I've played 2 rounds of golf.
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Alchemy

1: a medieval chemical science and speculative philosophy aiming to achieve the transmutation of the base metals into gold, the discovery of a universal cure for disease, and the discovery of a means of indefinitely prolonging life

2: a power or process that changes or transforms something in a mysterious or impressive way
… the practitioners of financial alchemy that transformed the world of money in the 1980's …
— Gordon Williams

3: an inexplicable or mysterious transmuting
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Voter suppression

- In the US, where photo identification is required to earn an income, to buy shelter and personal transportation, and to collect freebies from the government, where the photo identification itself is free if one has no spare change, where photo ID is required by adults for major necessities ... The Party says that requiring photo ID to vote, is voter suppression.

- In other words, the population has been sufficiently dumbed-down through government indoctrination to accept any nonsense without much of a fuss.
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Honesty n. 1. A philosophical position widely mocked, ridiculed, and avoided by politicians, and most other humans too. 2. An anachronism debunked by NRA MAGA Republicanism. 3. Wishful thinking.
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Hazing


An initiation process involving harassment.

(Merriam and Webster agree on this much.)
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Harbal wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 8:33 am
Walker wrote: Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:02 am
Feel free to question your values and priorities when a man can become rich and famous doing what you cannot do.
Of all the things that could have made me rich and famous had I been able to do them, not being able to play golf is probably the one I have the least regrets about.
Forget rich and famous. Just consider the daily walk through life. A good fairway is bouncy underfoot. Springy. The course is more manicured than the gardens of Versailles. Unobstructed views for hundreds of yards, views filled with breath-taking beauty, especially with lots of sunshine polarized by cool shades. Sky sometimes leaning towards cobalt, sometimes a wispy pastel blue. Golf is mostly mental, you against the impartial elements with a standard of goodness to best, if you're willing and able. You have the challenges of wind, of sun, water, space, air pressure ... you get to be alive in reality because you are intimately interacting with the elements, and your interaction determines the future and you see it all happening, immediately and in real time against a backdrop of beauty, the ball suspended in space and descending far away, just as you imagined. The ball becomes an extension of your imagination, the present becoming the future just as you envisioned. Doesn't get any better, or so sharply defined as when reality doesn't meet your expectation and your ball goes into the water.
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Transcendence

- Transcending one’s precious life, the measure of all things, is a misguided notion.
- It’s among the worst that a straw man or woman can offer.
- Fortunately, transcendence does not refer to life.
- Transcendence refers to limitations.
- Limitations get transcended, not life.
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