How to Succeed in Life

Colonel · 04-18-2004, 10:42 PM

If you want to hear it from me, just PM me, folks..

What do YOU guys think is the secret to success in life though? Say three different things that you believe contribute to
life success in happiness, wealth,ect. in an overview of life on a whole. I am curious to hear what you all ahve to say to this.

hectorberlioz · 04-19-2004, 12:23 AM

Music
Wealth
Beauty
(God)

I have to go to bed now though, so good night!

Janny · 04-19-2004, 04:31 AM

Hmm, so you're not speaking from experience then Hector?

A role model
A work ethic
A sense to recognise justice and and recognise luck.

[Edit:] I'm sorry, did I forget to mention I'm a sixteen year old with no successes in life as of yet?

Sminty_Smeagol · 04-19-2004, 06:30 AM

character, contentedness, fulfilling something you enjoy

Lizra · 04-19-2004, 07:47 AM

Love
Money
health

Andúril · 04-19-2004, 08:12 AM

The ability to delude yourself.
The ability to tap into ignorance at will.
The ability to lower your standards.

Lizra · 04-19-2004, 08:47 AM

Ugh!

Entirely too negative! Sorry...you are wrong!

Added:

What I mean is....IMO....at your lovely youngish age, your "standards" aren't very *real* yet!

You are human, and "not in control"...and this seeming ability to "delude" yourself is really just you relearning a few things, so that the "scale" is more balanced. Perhaps we over-emphasize the positve when teaching the young...but it is their "gasoline"

that keeps them running strong before they have *experience* to coast on. You aren't deluding yourself and forcing yourself to play dumb....you are learning to balance the scale more fairly.

That's merely my more "seasoned" (translate...old lady

) opinion of course. Don't be hard on yourself....other people will cover that ...

Andúril · 04-19-2004, 10:29 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lizra
[B]Ugh!

Entirely too negative! Sorry...you are wrong!

See? Deluded.

Kidding!

Quote:

The ability to delude yourself.
The ability to tap into ignorance at will.
The ability to lower your standards.

Or not.

Lizra · 04-19-2004, 10:33 AM

Where's my glasses!

Andúril · 04-19-2004, 10:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lizra
Where's my glasses!

What? I can change my mind from time to time, you know.

Janny · 04-19-2004, 12:49 PM

I thought Andy's was quite funny actually. It rings true to a middle class grammar school kid who has slight snobbish tendancies!

Insidious Rex · 04-19-2004, 01:44 PM

Actually ignorance is a fantastic vehicle toward happiness. my cat is the happiest creature ive ever met.

Insidious Rex · 04-19-2004, 01:46 PM

Ignorance and good beer.

Insidious Rex · 04-19-2004, 01:48 PM

And chinese food. Definitely chinese food.

***Valandil*** · 04-19-2004, 02:00 PM

Oh man... what was that quote from 'Conan the Barbarian'??

* To crush your enemies under your feet
* To hear the cries of their women

I forget the third, but I think two were something like that!

zinnite · 04-19-2004, 02:05 PM

Have a sense of humor
Make mistakes
Don't take life too seriously

***azalea*** · 04-19-2004, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Andúril

The ability to lower your standards.

I happen to agree with this one!

Edit: No, wait, I take it back. What I mean is the ability to lower your expectations

I'll have to get back to everybody on the other two.

Insidious Rex · 04-19-2004, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Valandil
Oh man... what was that quote from 'Conan the Barbarian'??

* To crush your enemies under your feet
* To hear the cries of their women

I forget the third, but I think two were something like that!

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"

Isnt that what he said during his victory speech after the election?

EDIT: woops i put "lamination of the women" instead of lamentation. And dont we all really wish we could laminate our women?

Falagar · 04-19-2004, 03:59 PM

Or, as Conan the Barbarian from Pratchett's Interesting Times put it:

-"Conan! What is good in life?"
-"Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper."

Profound.

Janny · 04-19-2004, 04:12 PM

Nope, gotta go with IR's on this one. Ignorance is bliss! Sweet intoxicating ignorance...

On the topic, Beor's name is old English for 'beer'.

04-18-2004, 10:42 PM	#1
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04-19-2004, 12:23 AM	#2
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04-19-2004, 04:31 AM	#3
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Hmm, so you're not speaking from experience then Hector? A role model A work ethic A sense to recognise justice and and recognise luck. [Edit:] I'm sorry, did I forget to mention I'm a sixteen year old with no successes in life as of yet? __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton. Last edited by Janny : 04-19-2004 at 04:33 AM.

04-19-2004, 06:30 AM	#4
Sminty_Smeagol Manic Cardboard-Box Dweller Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: In a house Posts: 1,071	character, contentedness, fulfilling something you enjoy __________________ I love the fishes.

04-19-2004, 07:47 AM	#5
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Love Money health __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

04-19-2004, 08:12 AM	#6
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	The ability to delude yourself. The ability to tap into ignorance at will. The ability to lower your standards.

04-19-2004, 08:47 AM	#7
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Ugh! Entirely too negative! Sorry...you are wrong! Added: What I mean is....IMO....at your lovely youngish age, your "standards" aren't very real yet! You are human, and "not in control"...and this seeming ability to "delude" yourself is really just you relearning a few things, so that the "scale" is more balanced. Perhaps we over-emphasize the positve when teaching the young...but it is their "gasoline" that keeps them running strong before they have experience to coast on. You aren't deluding yourself and forcing yourself to play dumb....you are learning to balance the scale more fairly. That's merely my more "seasoned" (translate...old lady ) opinion of course. Don't be hard on yourself....other people will cover that ... __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats! Last edited by Lizra : 04-19-2004 at 08:59 AM.

04-19-2004, 10:33 AM	#9
Lizra Domesticated Swing Babe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Reality Posts: 5,340	Where's my glasses! __________________ Happy Atheist Go Democrats!

04-19-2004, 12:49 PM	#11
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	I thought Andy's was quite funny actually. It rings true to a middle class grammar school kid who has slight snobbish tendancies! __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

04-19-2004, 01:44 PM	#12
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Actually ignorance is a fantastic vehicle toward happiness. my cat is the happiest creature ive ever met. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-19-2004, 01:46 PM	#13
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	Ignorance and good beer. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-19-2004, 01:48 PM	#14
Insidious Rex Quasi Evil Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Maryland, US Posts: 4,634	And chinese food. Definitely chinese food. __________________ "People's political beliefs don't stem from the factual information they've acquired. Far more the facts people choose to believe are the product of their political beliefs." "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

04-19-2004, 02:00 PM	#15
*Valandil* High King at Annuminas Administrator Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Wyoming - USA Posts: 10,752	Oh man... what was that quote from 'Conan the Barbarian'?? * To crush your enemies under your feet * To hear the cries of their women I forget the third, but I think two were something like that!

04-19-2004, 02:05 PM	#16
zinnite Elven Warrior Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Lawrence, Kansas, USA Posts: 195	Have a sense of humor Make mistakes Don't take life too seriously __________________ A citizen runs to the fire department yelling that he's spotted a roaring blaze from his car. "WHERE IS IT?" the fire department asks, pen ready. "It rises like some brooding , glaring trail of cosmic fury from- " "WHERE? WHERE?" "Oh. Well, it blazes up from a crimson-sheathed visage brooding darkly above the haunted towers of impotent indignity which, like melons hovering unhappily over lifetimes of empty meaning which-" "THE ADDRESS!" "Oh. Oh, I didn't notice. But look for a brooding, glaring trail of cosmic fury rising from a crimson-sheathed visage-" They lead him back to his car, and send him on. -- Philip K. Dick "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." -- Diderot

04-19-2004, 03:59 PM	#19
Falagar Death of Mooters and [Entmoot] Internal Affairs Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Oslo, Norway Posts: 2,870	Or, as Conan the Barbarian from Pratchett's Interesting Times put it: -"Conan! What is good in life?" -"Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper." Profound. __________________ Fëanor - Innocence incarnated Still, Aikanáro 'till the Last battle. Last edited by Falagar : 04-19-2004 at 04:14 PM.

04-19-2004, 04:12 PM	#20
Janny The Blobbit Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Kent, England (Not Oxford! ... yet...) Posts: 1,596	Nope, gotta go with IR's on this one. Ignorance is bliss! Sweet intoxicating ignorance... On the topic, Beor's name is old English for 'beer'. __________________ Janny's Songs Janny's lyrics and random photographs Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who happen to be walking about. ~ Mercutio... erm, GK Chesterton.

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