Ed,[snip]
I'm not picking on you. Just that both of your posts invited comment.
The lesson is that "People seek to satisfy their desires with the least exertion."
Harry! How do you explain the people grunting on
rowing machines, treadmills, stairmasters, and other
contraptions at fitness centers ("Workout World"...).Of course when I climbed 140 flights of stairs in under 30 minutes back some 15 years ago, I was trying to satisfy my desires with the least exertion (if I wasted energy I would have had to give up before reaching my goal which still lay some 60 flights beyond...)....
But I think that most persons would find such an assertion either trivial or ludicrous (AKA "stupid") or beside the point (what point? just about any point).
Roger Bannister and Sir Edmund Hillary werer trying to satisfy their desires with the least possible effort.
On the other hand, couch potatoes take pills that they think will cause them to burn calories without doing anything --> are they thereby thus satisfying their desires with the least possible effort, too?
This sort of reminds me of Donald Rumsfeld's recent resplonse to a reporter's query what he thought Osama bin Laden was up to these days. Rumsfeld replied:
I think he is either alive or dead.
Who could possibly disagree?
\brda mccormcik
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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