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HoustonHorn

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  1. Why do you feel it necessary to have a basis? Being decent to your fellow humans is enough for me. Try to cause no harm to others.

    Were you born like that? Luck of the draw, nature, God, good parents, wonderful grandparents, great siblings, morally sounds friends, wonderful teachers, what?

     

    We're talking about partially undeveloped (in the case of school shootings) teenagers and how they react to their circumstances. They decide to kill people so I would say they don't have the same "being decent" philosophy you have. So let's figure out why they have a different moral compass than you.

     

    To start we need to figure out what makes people decent people with your "being decent" philosophy and then figure out why these kids don't have that same moral compass that you have.

     

  2. I don't think that a moral compass without a basis is really possible. A child who grows up mistreated and abused often mistreats and abuses their own children. They didn't have a good basis for treating others with respect and in fact learned the opposite. There is a reason for that.

    Some people rely on family/parenting, some on religion, nature, friends, experiences, some on an internal moral compass, etc. There is an infinite number of factors that form the basis for ones moral compass.

    What are those for you? Give a top 5. Just saying I'm a good person doesn't qualify because some factors made your a good person. I'm guessing there will be a variety of responses on this.


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  3. Unbelievable but true..  There is a thread on this board extolling the virtues of various bidets...

    The worst thing about this is that the virtues of bidets are not being extolled more prominently. Ride the wave of a new future.

     

    I'm a #bideliever

  4. That's an easy one.  Shot a smooth 111 at Lost Pines in Bastrop State Park before it burnt down.  I lost count after I hit my 10th tree.  I hit random limbs, pine saplings 2 inches in diameter, and plenty of others.  After a while it just got kind of funny.  Good thing I was drinking.
    Funny, I played in a HS tournament there a LONG time ago and played with a guy that made two 8s and picked up after 10 shots on the other 16. That's a 176 with a 10 shot max. Would have been at least 250 without that. And that wasn't a real difficult course.

    After being about a 4-6 handicap and playing on a state runner up team as a junior, I developed the shanks my senior year in HS and have never recovered. We had a guys weekend 10+ years ago at some place in New Braunfels. After the first day of drinking and poor, but reasonable golf (say 90 or so), things got way out of hand that night. The next day I probably would have shot 200 if it wasn't match play. I was so shaky I could barely swing and missed several 1' and less putts. I probably lost 40+ golf balls and it would have been more but for the fact we'd just agree to drop up in the fairway near where the ball left the course. I lost several balls on each hole. The guy I was playing against was horrible as well and also suffering after the night before. I think we halved after I left a 6" putt short on 18. It was a fitting end.

    The day after my 21st birthday I played in a 2-man scramble. We showed up 10 minutes late for our 8-ish tee time, hit our first shots with no shoes on (both great drives) and proceeded to shoot a 48 on the front nine on a course we both played alot and would regularly shoot 75 or better (for 18 holes). I nearly killed the drink girl, but luckily I'd told her to move back some and I hit a cooler instead of her. We didn't make the back nine.

    I play once or twice a year now and only in scrambles since I'm still good for a few good shots and an occasional putt. I still shank probably 20% of my short irons/chips. Fun stuff.
  5. On 5/12/2018 at 10:49 AM, Etexhorn13 said:

    Coltivare is fantastic. Have a cocktail or two outside while you wait for your table, because you’ll prob be waiting a while. Heads up, the olive oil and black pepper pasta is great, even though it’s not something I’d normally order from a menu. 

    Yeah, this was our second time and it was as good as the first. Just fantastic. Wait was about 1.5 hours and we arrived about 5:20. Walked down to Onion Creek to wait so it wasn't too bad.

    We did get the black pepper pasta - it was so good the last time that we had to get it again. Pizza was fantastic. Gnocchi starter was very good as was the Burrata. Roasted chicken was excellent. Definitely highly recommended.

  6. So the Narrator on the Science Channel program The Planets and Beyond just used the term felching.
     
    /Indigo Montoya
     
     
    Will post a vid if I can figure out how to reduce the size of the file. Can't upload through Tapa.

    Maybe filching, could go either way.
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