Comments on: 100th Post http://sansyourpants.com/2009/03/27/100th-post/ nerd smut from a beach hut Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:04:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: mah http://sansyourpants.com/2009/03/27/100th-post/comment-page-1/#comment-610 mah Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:32:18 +0000 http://sansyourpants.com/?p=716#comment-610 WOW, Congratulations on your "100th post". I am proud, have been inspired by many and certainly had more than a few chuckles. Please keep it up! WOW, Congratulations on your “100th post”. I am proud, have been inspired by many and certainly had more than a few chuckles. Please keep it up!

]]> By: Sans Your Pants http://sansyourpants.com/2009/03/27/100th-post/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Sans Your Pants Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:42:46 +0000 http://sansyourpants.com/?p=716#comment-608 As of this morning, I have ordered 'The Pearl' to be read upon its arrival. I think you are right Joe, it is an inevitable result. I even cut out a paragraph about the forever-cat-and-mouse game of one-upping one's neighbor with the bigger house and bigger hummer and bigger credit card bill. I also agree that the danger is not inherent, but I have encountered very few people who have a healthy approach to goals/dreams. Don't get me wrong, I've met many people who believe they have a healthy approach, but I've also met many people who believe they are worth the oxygen they're breathing, in both instances they were gravely mistaken. I appreciate your comments and the indirect Steinbeck recommendation, and my feed reader tells me I am soon to appreciate a new post on your blog. I wish I was kidding Ashley. Try as I might to be funny, the most humorous things that I say/write are those that are 100% true. If only I could stop trying... As of this morning, I have ordered ‘The Pearl’ to be read upon its arrival. I think you are right Joe, it is an inevitable result. I even cut out a paragraph about the forever-cat-and-mouse game of one-upping one’s neighbor with the bigger house and bigger hummer and bigger credit card bill. I also agree that the danger is not inherent, but I have encountered very few people who have a healthy approach to goals/dreams. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve met many people who believe they have a healthy approach, but I’ve also met many people who believe they are worth the oxygen they’re breathing, in both instances they were gravely mistaken. I appreciate your comments and the indirect Steinbeck recommendation, and my feed reader tells me I am soon to appreciate a new post on your blog.

I wish I was kidding Ashley. Try as I might to be funny, the most humorous things that I say/write are those that are 100% true. If only I could stop trying…

]]> By: Ashley http://sansyourpants.com/2009/03/27/100th-post/comment-page-1/#comment-602 Ashley Sat, 28 Mar 2009 15:19:26 +0000 http://sansyourpants.com/?p=716#comment-602 "I once wrote a fortune (to be placed in a whale)" Oh, how I heart you. “I once wrote a fortune (to be placed in a whale)”

Oh, how I heart you.

]]> By: Joe Aranda http://sansyourpants.com/2009/03/27/100th-post/comment-page-1/#comment-594 Joe Aranda Sat, 28 Mar 2009 10:18:46 +0000 http://sansyourpants.com/?p=716#comment-594 During the past year I've been studying John Steinbeck's "The Pearl" and it has lead me to some of the same conclusions you address here. It is amazing how often we construct our lives off of the simple premise "When I can achieve this/have this, then everything will be better." It often seems like this is the inevitable result of living in a consumption based society. But the tragedy occurs when energy, desire, and concept of self-worth are dependent on an illusive result rather than the process. While I don't feel living a goal-based life is inherently dangerous, making one's happiness contingent on a result in the future can suck the child-like, experience based, wonder out of life. Example: the devoutly religious who choose to suffer throughout their lives in order to gain access to an ambiguous paradise in the after-life, or the wealth craving executive pre-occupied with collecting the most adult toys. Nice work here Simon... During the past year I’ve been studying John Steinbeck’s “The Pearl” and it has lead me to some of the same conclusions you address here. It is amazing how often we construct our lives off of the simple premise “When I can achieve this/have this, then everything will be better.” It often seems like this is the inevitable result of living in a consumption based society. But the tragedy occurs when energy, desire, and concept of self-worth are dependent on an illusive result rather than the process. While I don’t feel living a goal-based life is inherently dangerous, making one’s happiness contingent on a result in the future can suck the child-like, experience based, wonder out of life. Example: the devoutly religious who choose to suffer throughout their lives in order to gain access to an ambiguous paradise in the after-life, or the wealth craving executive pre-occupied with collecting the most adult toys. Nice work here Simon…

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