While beauty and youth are in their full prime, And folly and fashion affect our whole time; Oh, let not the phantom our wishes engage; Let's live so in youth that we blush not in age.
I sigh not for beauty, nor languish for wealth, But grant me, kind Providence, virtue and health. Then, richer than kings, and far happier than they, My days shall pass swiftly and sweetly away. The vain and the young may attend us awhile, But let not their flatt'ry our prudence beguile. Let's covet those charms that shall never decay; Nor listen to all that deceivers can say. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : Sublunary? Sublunary sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublunary_sphere https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublunary_sphere Sublunary sphere - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublunary_sphere The sublunary sphere is a concept in Aristotelian physics derived from Greek astronomy.[1] It is the region of the geocentric cosmos below the Moon, c... View on en.wikipedia.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublunary_sphere Preview by Yahoo "Unthinking man, remember this, Though fond of sublunary bliss, Make hay while the sun shines.. the Dome doors open for meditation at 6:40am CST ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony...@yahoo.com> wrote : My days, my weeks, my months, my years, Fly rapid as the whirling spheres, Fly rapid as the whirling spheres, Around the steady pole. Time, like the tide, its motion keeps, And I must launch thro' endless deeps, And I must launch thro' endless deeps, Where endless ages roll. The grave is near the cradle seen, How swift the moments pass between, How swift the moments pass between, And whisper as they fly. "Unthinking man, remember this, Though fond of sublunary bliss, Though fond of sublunary bliss, That you must groan and die." My soul, attend the solemn call, Thine earthly tent must shortly fall, Thine earthly tent must shortly fall, And thou must take thy flight. Beyond the vast expansive blue, To sing above, as angels do, To sing above, as angels do, Or sing in endless night. Joshua Smith's Divine Hymns, 1794. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <steve.sun...@yahoo.com> wrote : This is sort of funny. A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were having dinner in a restaurant in a better part of town, where I also went to high school. It was a lot busier than we expected. We were sitting at the outdoor bar, and I hear a couple guys talking about the best looking girl in our high school during those days. I mentioned how odd that was to my wife, and then she overheard the bartender talking to one of the group about where the their high school reunion was going to after this little pre get together. This group was a year behind me, (thank God), but I was surprised at just how old everyone looked. On the other hand, the person I see in the mirror now, for the first time, is starting to look pretty old as well. (-: ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : 64 next month. Just went to my 45th year high school reunion last night, couldn't recognize a soul! We all looked so old! Everybody was going around looking at our name tags with our senior pictures on them to see who they recognized! It was hilarious. My dad died when I was nine, I never married because I never expected to live long enough to raise a family. Didn't want to put my kids through my own personal experience. Big mistake, maybe. Hear I am at 64, old enough to be a grandfather. However , raising a family, I wouldn't have had the wonderful experiences I have had with Maharishi. From: "awoelflebater@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2015 11:34 AM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] 'Debate from Hell' ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mdixon.6569@...> wrote : At this point I would have to ask your age. I would guess you were born well after the beginning of the *Great Society*. That is when out of wedlock birthrates began do increase, when the government told the masses, we will take care of your babies, women began to feel there was no need for a man in the house, a bread winner. Children started growing up without a male role model and authority figure in the house and crime started ramping up. Out of wedlock birth rates in the black community today near 80% and about 40 % in white homes, the last I read. This was unheard of before the beginning of the *Great Society*. That's funny because I was going to ask your age as well based on some of your comments (BTW, I like discussing things with you because no matter how much we might disagree you are alway pleasant and civil. I think this is one of the things I like most about FFL now - everyone can speak their mind without the peanut gallery inciting dissension by misrepresenting every viewpoint and consequently skewing discussions until hey resemble nothing but juvenile pie throwing contests). I was born in 1956 so that makes me much older than you think. In addition, I have never had an abortion nor do I have any children (by definite choice). When my husband and I were married he had already been married before and had had a vasectomy (he is 7 years older than I am) and if we were going to have children together he was going to have to have the vasectomy reversed but much to his relief I told him I had no desire for children. But before that I would have had many opportunities to have gotten pregnant but I was pretty careful. Would I have had an abortion if I had gotten pregnant? I'm not absolutely sure but it seems likely that I would have.