> Harry! How do you explain the people grunting on
> rowing machines, treadmills, stairmasters, and other
> contraptions at fitness centers ("Workout World"...).
Ah, yes, Brad, but perhaps they are doing it with the least exertion for
that kind of thing.
Ed Weick
.
> Harry Pollard wrote:
> > Ed,
> >
> > 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."
> [snip]
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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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