18 September 2017

Notes - Dignity needs freedom / confusion / on nukes



       Late morning. You drove to get your haircut only to find Mary Ann was offered more money to work as a hair stylist at P&G. You were surprised and saddened but good for her, that is the attitude. You came home and helped Carol with the packing boxes. The person who cut your hair had instructions from Mary Ann and she said she had watched Mary Ann cut my hair/beard several times because her husband has a beard she cuts. You are pleased with the results but can't remember the friendly woman's name.

       1132 hours. I cannot imagine regretting a good person's further success. P&G pays well and has a good retirement program. Still, this goes to show that even if you stay in a particular locality for a long time things are going to change anyway. We will have lived in Mason 43 years next Spring; how the city has been transformed since our arrival at 800 Majken Place. And, how we have (lived) matured/aged in these 43 years also.

       'Aged' makes you sound like you have withered at the vine. - Amorella

       1143 hours. Well, there is some truth to it, Amorella. We are not fruit to be eaten though. We have our dignity.

       Freedom and dignity go together, boy. - Amorella

       1146 hours. Even in this context they do. I hadn't realized that; maybe even more so than in our youth.

       Post. - Amorella



       Late morning. You drove to get your haircut only to find Mary Ann was offered more money to work as a hair stylist at P&G. You were surprised and saddened but good for her, that is the attitude. You came home and helped Carol with the packing boxes. The person who cut your hair had instructions from Mary Ann and she said she had watched Mary Ann cut my hair/beard several times because her husband has a beard she cuts. You are pleased with the results but can't remember the friendly woman's name.

       1132 hours. I cannot imagine regretting a good person's further success. P&G pays well and has a good retirement program. Still, this goes to show that even if you stay in a particular locality for a long time things are going to change anyway. We will have lived in Mason 43 years next Spring; how the city has been transformed since our arrival at 800 Majken Place. And, how we have (lived) matured/aged in these 43 years also.

       'Aged' makes you sound like you have withered at the vine. - Amorella

       1143 hours. Well, there is some truth to it, Amorella. We are not fruit to be eaten though. We have our dignity.

       Freedom and dignity go together, boy. - Amorella

       1146 hours. Even in this context they do. I hadn't realized that; maybe even more so than in our youth.

       Post. - Amorella

       You ran errands and stopped at Potbelly's for at take out Mediterranean and Hammie flats, chips and two drinks. You are at your usual spot on Rose Hill, next door, so to speak, to the Whitaker mausoleum for your in-car picnic. Clouds are rolling in this warm day for showers tonight and tomorrow. - Amorella

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Dictionary:

dignity - noun - the state or quality of being worthy of honor or respect: a man of dignity and unbending principle | the dignity of labor.

Thesaurus:

dignity - noun - the dignity of the proceedings: stateliness, nobility, majesty, regality, courtliness, augustness, loftiness, lordliness, grandeur; solemnity, gravity, gravitas, formality, deco-um, propriety, sedateness.

Selected and edited from the Oxford/American software

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       1447 hours. There is a lot of difference between the first meaning of dignity from the dictionary and its thesaurus' synonyms. Freedom doesn't really appear to fit with the latter sixteen synonyms. My freedom sense is spiritually bent alone.

       Indeed, it is good that you clarified that for yourself. - Amorella

       1457 hours. I like to avoid confusion; that is one of the problems with living, confusion.

       Post when applicable. - Amorella

       You had a good supper of noodles and chicken, watched NBC and ABC News, took a break, then watched an hour and a half of last night's PBS's "The Vietnam War" which you consider 'most excellent'. - Amorella

       2134 hours. Complications in early Vietnam from the French occupation through the division of North and South Vietnam at the 17th Parallel show through hindsight that it appears Fate took her own hand, that nothing could have been done to change the course at that time. It is perplexing to think on. What could have been done to prevent what eventually happened? I jump from such thinking to today's concerns on the course of the U.S. and North Korea. If a nuclear war happens in the Koreas, how could it have been prevented at this point in time? Believing in either Fate or Free Will makes no difference. How do we prevent a nuclear war in the Koreas? Complications always arise. They happen in families, in relationships, in politics, in religions. We do not always respond violently, but sometimes we do because we are put into a corner because of overall confusion to where there appears to be no choice. Responding to complications is a basic human trait. Reason appears to be the only real choice when it comes to even a localized nuclear war; plainly, however, it may not always be the choice taken. (2150)

       You have nothing else on the subject? - Amorella

       2150 hours. No, nothing else.

       Post. - Amorella


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