I was about to write that it does not help that we fail recognize or reward those
who's price is too large to be reached...and realized that it would be like
asking for the pay off in a different currency.  It hurts when I discover that my
innosense...may not be as pure as I had hoped.

Still, I would rather deal with Abe, who took his payoff in the form of good
stories, than the alternative.

-jc

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> In a message dated 00-12-28 00:31:30 EST, Ken wrote:
>
> <<
>  If you are not comfortable, if you do not like something, then either change
>  it or change yourself... but I refuse to take the viewpoint that says that we
>  all need to eat crap from the world-at-large, particularly the crap of doing
>  business with people that we do not like under the guise of *making* money. I
>  r >>
> Hear hear....... does anyone remember that old contractor joke about Abraham
> Linclon who after refusing to take a bribe finally threw the bribe maker
> down the steps of the capital in a fit of rage at his last offer..
> .Why did you do that said the contractor ???
> because you were close to my Price"... said honest Abe..!!!!
>
> as a sailor(pirate) who has had to abandon ship in dire circumstance
> I always liked Freud's comment which  I will misquote (help anyone)
> about " humans  despite their progress in consciousness
> will at any given moment
>  be reduced to their lowest common denominator".
> ...the bottom line is perhaps
> you simply were not PAID enough  for your pain an suffering.
> ..signed women and children first; or what are we Mice or Men... (squeak
> sqeak)