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Offline Holden McGroin

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« Reply #15 on: March 28, 2007, 03:27:12 AM »
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I'm a fatalist, I figure when its time to die, you die.


I told my dad that I was a fatalist.  He told me, "If you really think that, why don't you put a pistol to your head and pull the trigger?  If it's not your time, the gun will misfire."

I guess I'm not a fatalist.
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« Reply #16 on: March 28, 2007, 04:29:04 AM »
I've had two "close calls" ... and both times, I was very calm, and mainly just sad for my relatives, I guess that makes me ready.

That feeling changed 180 degrees both times about 15 minutes after the incident, I guess that makes me no-ready to go.


hmmm...
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« Reply #17 on: March 28, 2007, 04:34:02 AM »
Don`t sweat it Saw. Me and Pinky are working on a new formula. :)
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« Reply #18 on: March 28, 2007, 05:57:12 AM »
Will moonshine solve all my troubles?!??? Yay! :D
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« Reply #19 on: March 28, 2007, 06:01:27 AM »
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Will moonshine solve all my troubles?!??? Yay! :D


What troubles? :D
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Offline Rino

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« Reply #20 on: March 28, 2007, 07:20:24 AM »
After my very close call last September, I think the only thing I would
have truly regretted was not being able to say goodbye to my loved ones.

     Sometimes you can't predict what will happen, so let the people close
to you know how you really feel!
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Offline lazs2

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« Reply #21 on: March 28, 2007, 08:24:54 AM »
well.. I have had plenty of close calls on motorcycles and cars and just living the bad old life...  I don't think those count...  They don't count cause I never figured that I was gonna die.

But...  I have twice now had idiot doctors tell me that I had a finite number of years max to live... very few at that.   They were wrong.   I outlived one by a decade already.

Still... the later examples.. when a doctor tells you and gives you time... a couple years..  that makes you think about your own mortality...  Having done so I can say that I am not worried about it.   I will wait and see what is next.. I am in no hurry to leave and will fight to stay but I don't fear it I don't believe.

I did and do think about it from time to time in relation to other things but maybe that is just because I am getting old and soft.

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« Reply #22 on: March 28, 2007, 08:26:51 AM »
why fear the inevitable?  make peace with it and live your life.
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« Reply #23 on: March 28, 2007, 08:29:18 AM »
All of the rabid pro-gun crowd are ready to die to protect their 2nd Amendment Rights I thought.

:huh
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« Reply #24 on: March 28, 2007, 08:34:27 AM »
curval...I think most or us would prefer not to.   I think you would prefer to not die for your children but to live to enjoy them for instance.

Being ready to die not the same as hoping to.

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« Reply #25 on: March 28, 2007, 08:40:05 AM »
who's rabid?  heck most of us here are dispassionate about our bill of rights.  we are steadfast in our defense of these same rights though.  I think you mistake us taking our freedom seriously and taking steps to insure that these rights are not watered down further as a disease.  

I understand how one such as yourself could be confused on such a basic issue.  after all being a foppish subject who lives by the leave of a distant sovereign and it's puppet government must have some negative effect on the collective psyche of such a people.
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« Reply #26 on: March 28, 2007, 08:51:32 AM »
"I understand how one such as yourself could be confused on such a basic issue. after all being a foppish subject who lives by the leave of a distant sovereign and it's puppet government must have some negative effect on the collective psyche of such a people."


lol..oh yeah...your explanation was clear as a bell.  Dispassionate about your rights but steadfast in defense?  Clear as a bell.

The title of this thead is "Are you ready to die?"

It didn't say "Do you WANT to die?"

I just expected to see lots of guys here stating how ready they are to die.  

*shrugs*
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« Reply #27 on: March 28, 2007, 08:59:13 AM »
I think that several have said that they were ready to die but in no hurry.  I don't see what your point is.   Are you saying that there is nothing worth risking your life for?

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« Reply #28 on: March 28, 2007, 09:10:04 AM »
"Noone is ever ready to die."

"But I hope I'm never ready to die."

Here's an interesting one:  "I will give up my life when they tear it from my cold dead fingers!"

Doesn't sound like people are ready to die who have posted in this thread thus far.

My point is simply this:  I read in many other threads chest pounding statements of how people are ready to die to preserve their 2nd amendment rights.

So far this thread ain't stacking up on that point.

Not a big deal, just thought I'd mention it.
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« Reply #29 on: March 28, 2007, 09:30:47 AM »
I'm completely ready (not that I want to die, because I don't). My family ain't ready though. Isn't that the way it's supposed to be though?
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