icecream Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 I was reading this today earlier in a book very inspirational. "In the late seventies, I would have lunch every day with one or two friends in the cafeteria of the graduate center at Cambridge University, where I was studying. A man in a wheelchair would sometimes sit at a nearby table, usually accompanied by three or four people. One day, when I was sitting at a table directly opposite me, I could not help but look at him more closely, and I was shocked by what I saw. He seemed almost totally paralyzed. His body was emaciated, his head permanently slumped forward. One of the people accompanying him was carefully putting food in his mouth a great deal of which would fall out again and be caught on a small plate another man was holding under his chin. Occasionally the wheelchair bound man would produce unintelligible croaking sounds, and someone would hold an ear close to his mouth and then amazingly would interpret what he was trying to say. Later I asked my friend whether he knew who he was. “Of course,” he said, “He is a professor of mathematics, and the people with him are his graduate students. He has motor neuron disease that progressively paralyzes every part of the body. He has been given five years at the most. It must be the most dreadful fate that can befall a human being.” A few weeks later, as I was leaving the building, he was coming in, and when I held the door open for his electric wheelchair to come trough, our eyes met. With surprise I saw that his eyes were clear. There was no trace in them of unhappiness. I know immediately he had relinquished resistance; he was living in surrender. A number of years later when buying a newspaper at a kiosk, I was amazed to see him on the front page of a popular international news magazine. Not only was he still alive, but he had by then become the world's most famous theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking. There was a beautiful line in the article that confirmed what I had sensed when I had looked into his eyes many years earlier. Commenting upon his life, he said (now with the help of the voice synthesizer), “Who could have wished for more?” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted December 28, 2012 Author Share Posted December 28, 2012 Going to see Lotus tonight. Anyone into them? http://lotusvibes.bandcamp.com/album/post-rock-set there is a link to their "post-rock" set. It is free. I like their more upbeat/dancey tunes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniegwilliams Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 if i could domesticate any wild animal and make it a pet, it would be a squirrel. True story, once before class I found a squirrel chilling by a tree (as squirrels tend to do), so I took a chance and ried tried to pet it, cool thing was- it let me, then it followed me to the building my class was in. Man, I wish I would've just brought that awesome little guy home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbruise Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 When I was a child maybe 3-5, squirrles would get into our house through the old chimney. The chimney was blocked off years before we moved into this house it looked like. Anyways the squirrles would chew/claw their way through the wall behind a picture hanging up. My dad destroyed them with my wiffle ball bat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodybrokeurheart Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 A bat came through my chimney once. i woke up and he was in the corner of my bedroom doing that hanging upside down and being creepy as fuck thing. and then i turned on my light to go into panic mode. he went into panic mode instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjb2k1 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Getting a tattoo today! My brother is in the chair right now. It's a family affair! thedillon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Butterfly on ankle? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobodybrokeurheart Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 tramp stamp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maneatingcow Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 A giant catfish on your neck? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjglor Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Neck Dragon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronniegwilliams Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 kanji? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjglor Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Oh yeah, my dog is having quite the hard time finding out how to take a shit in over a foot of snow. rudeboydh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicondevil Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Dororo is a good movie to stream on Netflix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjb2k1 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Youre all close. Grandpa's WWII pilot wings. My bro got icarus' wings on his forearm. Waiting for the guy to draw mine up now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedillon Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Getting a tattoo today! My brother is in the chair right now. It's a family affair! my sister and I just got matching tattoo's for each other for christmas... shamrock's for my grandpa who was the most irish person you've ever met! he used to wear a green suit to work and dye his hair green on st pattys day hah Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konk Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Does the hyphen in pop-punk differentiate between the two types? I don't know why I think this, but I do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjb2k1 Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 my sister and I just got matching tattoo's for each other for christmas... shamrock's for my grandpa who was the most irish person you've ever met! he used to wear a green suit to work and dye his hair green on st pattys day hah thats awesome!I'll post a pic when I get home tonight. Genius me didn't take one on my phone before he wrapped it all up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Hundred Fifty-Two Posted December 28, 2012 Author Share Posted December 28, 2012 Does the hyphen in pop-punk differentiate between the two types? I don't know why I think this, but I do. Pop Punk - The Ergs! / The Steinways Pop-Punk - New Found Glory / Wonder Years Pop - Simple Plan / Cartel Is this about right? konk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Turned out to be a possum, and I no longer felt bad. That is fucked up. konk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbruise Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 That is fucked up. Possums are fucking nasty creatures. I run them over any chance i get, them and raccoons Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
konk Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Pop Punk - The Ergs! / The Steinways Pop-Punk - New Found Glory / Wonder Years Pop - Simple Plan / Cartel Is this about right? That's exactly right! I didn't know which was which. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noalarmplanet Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Loud noises! rudeboydh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Possums are fucking nasty creatures. I run them over any chance i get, them and raccoons Not sure if you are joking, but being nasty doesn't mean you don't have the right to live. konk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbruise Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Not sure if you are joking, but being nasty doesn't mean you don't have the right to live. Im serious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 28, 2012 Share Posted December 28, 2012 Haha, k. I find you nasty but that doesn't mean I am going to come and hit you with my car. You cunt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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