Zazen13 please explain "Grace"

[SkyRock]

You first Mr Literature.

haven't read that one.

[LYNX]

Zazen me ol fruit.  Don't you dare go changing your writing style.  I appreciate a concise educated conversation.  I especially like your use of words.  Why use a whole sentence when one word says it all.

Don't let us fiko's drag u down 

[Zazen13]

I kind of enjoy it when Zazen goes through a long period of boredom.  It happens every now and then, and I usually come out of it with a new vocabulary word or two

You'd be suprised just how many new words I learned after having to look up "symbiosis."  The google search led to an interesting read in and of itself

Believe it or not I'm a geek (no crap eh?)  ....I actually talk exactly how I write casually, maybe even a bit moreso as I don't have to spell the words I want to use verbally. I could write for three year olds if I choose, but I figure anyone playing AH deserves some $5 words that will win them a game of Scrabble one day. It's also a public service for the teens that dropped out of high school to play AH for a living. It may be the last educational experience they have until GED class at the incarceration facility at Angola State Prison. My wife's a country girl from the deep south, just by listening to me for the past 6 years her vocabulary has increased 300%, she even beat me for the first time ever in Scrabble the other night (I got stuck with the Q & X  ).

[hlbly]

Dont change a thing zaz . You have a style that reminds me of a 19th century gentleman  . When english was a "graceful" language .

[Zazen13]

Zazen me ol fruit.  Don't you dare go changing your writing style.  I appreciate a concise educated conversation.  I especially like your use of words.  Why use a whole sentence when one word says it all.

Don't let us fiko's drag u down 

Ty Sir  

Yea, I said that in another thread, probably in response to one of these thread stalkers...Why use 5 imperfect words to convey an abstract thought imperfectly when you can just use 1 perfect word, even if it has 7 syllables...I write this kind of casual stuff almost like I would poetry. Some words just go together, some words I use to help with imagery or for double meanings that want to let the reader decide the meaning. It's far less like writing an essay than writing a poem. I really feel badly for those that hate my writing because I really want to amuse and entertain on a discussion forum.

[Zazen13]

Dont change a thing zaz . You have a style that reminds me of a 19th century gentleman  . When english was a "graceful" language .

Yea, all writing back then had a sense of poetry to it. Language was an instrument of inspiration and conveyance of ideas. Now language is an instrument of texting. As an artform it's on life-support.

[bmwgs]

Ty Sir  

Yea, I said that in another thread, probably in response to one of these thread stalkers...Why use 5 imperfect words to convey an abstract thought imperfectly when you can just use 1 perfect word, even if it has 7 syllables...I write this kind of casual stuff almost like I would poetry. Some words just go together, some words I use to help with imagery or for double meanings that want to let the reader decide the meaning. It's far less like writing an essay than writing a poem. I really feel badly for those that hate my writing because I really want to amuse and entertain on a discussion forum.

My biggest complainant is, I get tired of picking up the old college dictionary, and looking up all the definitions of all the words I probably should have learned in college.  I guess that happens when you went to school when Fortran and Colbol were the latest things on the block.   

Fred

[RTHolmes]

Zazen ... concise

 

[lyric1]

 I like to think of Grace as the active principle of righteousness, or "right action".  The universe as it is presented to us each moment in time is a complex latticework of God's design, always in harmonious balance and perfect. A graceful person seamlessly flows with the environment without disturbing it, a function of it, similarly perfectly balanced. Moreover, the truly graceful person does so in an effortless way. Grace is not a function of effort or deliberate intention but an incidental byproduct of an unconscious symbiosis with the "right way" of life. Grace is beautiful because it is passive action. The act of doing something without any semblance of conflict between the individual and the will of the universe, of which we are an inseparable part, to maintain equilibrium in motion. For example, in pool I always tell my students, go with the flow, don't fight it, let the table tell you how to play the shot, don't force your play upon it.

Nicely done. Then he logs off forums & shoots people down.

[yanksfan]

Don't apologize for your writing, if you strongly believe in your position.  Apologize for writing in such a way that alienates your readers.  That is your failing.

There is nothing to apoligize for, i like his posts. Even if I don't agree they are well thought out and well written.

Don

[Kuhn]

 I like to think of Grace as the active principle of righteousness, or "right action".  The universe as it is presented to us each moment in time is a complex latticework of God's design, always in harmonious balance and perfect. A graceful person seamlessly flows with the environment without disturbing it, a function of it, similarly perfectly balanced. Moreover, the truly graceful person does so in an effortless way. Grace is not a function of effort or deliberate intention but an incidental byproduct of an unconscious symbiosis with the "right way" of life. Grace is beautiful because it is passive action. The act of doing something without any semblance of conflict between the individual and the will of the universe, of which we are an inseparable part, to maintain equilibrium in motion. For example, in pool I always tell my students, go with the flow, don't fight it, let the table tell you how to play the shot, don't force your play upon it.
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Groovy man!!   

[lyric1]

 Grace was a evil Shelia I knew back home? ? ? ? Oh wrong kind of grace sorry.

[storch]

Grace was a evil Shelia I knew back home? ? ? ? Oh wrong kind of grace sorry.

I was thinking the same thing and I was very happy to be rid of grace once she was gone from life.

[thndregg]

Your linguistic skills will alter a bit when you become a father, Zazen. Trust me.

[texasmom]

Nicely done. Then he logs off forums & shoots people down.