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jedi jeffi

Post subject: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 28th, 2013, 2:02 pm

Joined: June 23rd, 2006, 4:25 pm
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Location: Milton

Saw this quote today.
Seems to fit us solo paddlers

And since my wild beast days have long since passed...
I must be a God....

Quote:

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quote ... 99587.html

Jeff

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Ralph

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 28th, 2013, 3:57 pm

Joined: December 20th, 2003, 9:27 am
Posts: 984

Congratulations, Jeff.
Unfortunately for me, I've heard it from a number of sources that I'm much closer to being a wild beast than a god.
Ralph

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ghommes

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 29th, 2013, 12:38 am

Joined: April 23rd, 2002, 7:00 pm
Posts: 434
Location: Two Harbors, Minnesota USA

Considering the fact that there is no credible proof of a "god", I would say I'm a wild beast.

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pknoerr

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 29th, 2013, 8:42 am

Joined: December 2nd, 2002, 7:00 pm
Posts: 3731
Location: Grand Haven, Michigan U.S.A.

I'm with Gordon. Facts are facts. But why the lack or choices that are real? Seems like we all must be beasts.... some more beastly than others.

PK

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GHOSLO

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 29th, 2013, 9:47 am

Joined: July 30th, 2006, 1:31 pm
Posts: 410
Location: Hamilton ON

Even if there isn't a God, Jeff can feel god-like, if he wants to. So there.

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pknoerr

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 29th, 2013, 9:57 am

Joined: December 2nd, 2002, 7:00 pm
Posts: 3731
Location: Grand Haven, Michigan U.S.A.

Aristotle lived in a time where gods very much answered that which could not be answered by man. I'm OK with Jeff being god-like. :thumbup:

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Erhard

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 29th, 2013, 10:17 am

Joined: June 20th, 2001, 7:00 pm
Posts: 7515
Location: Scarbados, Ontario Canada

I am sort-of both or somewhere in between. Depends when: at times I feel like a god, and at others I know I am a complete ass.

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jedi jeffi

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 29th, 2013, 10:43 am

Joined: June 23rd, 2006, 4:25 pm
Posts: 3087
Location: Milton

PK wrote

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Aristotle lived in a time where gods very much answered that which could not be answered by man. I'm OK with Jeff being god-like.

At least in my own mind.... :roll:

I would never put myself on the same footing as the River Gods....
Wouldn't want them to take offence with me on my next trip...

After all it is winter and we need to keep ourselves amused. :thumbup:

Jeff

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Watersong

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 30th, 2013, 7:36 pm

Joined: December 30th, 2003, 11:36 pm
Posts: 1807
Location: Kitchener Ontario

We are all gods, are we not?

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"The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten." Sigurd Olson, 1956

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dunkin'

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 30th, 2013, 7:58 pm

Joined: June 25th, 2004, 9:42 pm
Posts: 1658
Location: Calgary, AB or wherever life takes me

How about a fairly domesticated beast that loves being wild? I am definitely no god.

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"Paddle faster, I hear banjos!"

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pknoerr

Post subject: Re: Are you a wild beast or a God?

Posted: December 30th, 2013, 9:39 pm

Joined: December 2nd, 2002, 7:00 pm
Posts: 3731
Location: Grand Haven, Michigan U.S.A.

Watersong wrote:

We are all gods, are we not?

I didn't really think this was the forum to discuss that. :-?

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