In a couple of weeks I hope to celebrate my birth day. Should I treat it as a day of sorrow? You see I am coming into the wrong side of sixties. But incurable and hopeless idiot I am for a good laugh, I could celebrate it for another reason. You see I am still [...]
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Out of focus, sharper in clarity
Posted in life, tagged Benny Thomas, clarity, life, out of focus, reality, slice of life on May 30, 2012 | 3 Comments »
A Quote:
Posted in life, quotes, tagged Benny Thomas, life experience, philosophy on May 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
“Life the great Natural he is, can’t find the purpose so he relies on man and woman to keep reminding him. So shall we live well and play a little joke on him? He will believe he represents a moral purpose. If we were to do just the opposite equally would he believe it was [...]
Sex-Translation Please!
Posted in humor, life, tagged adolescence, dumb, dumber, humor, life, sex, shmucks, slice of life on April 5, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Many years ago I went with a friend of mine on a long journey. We both had entered into that exciting part of our lives namely college education. My all male boarding school was behind me. Girls, girls girls were all about us! It so happened we both were about to spend our first vacation [...]
The Best Advice I Ever Had
Posted in life, tagged Benny Thomas, finance, humor, life experience, opportunity, quotable quotes on March 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The best economic advice I got was from my pop who said,’Hand to mouth financial plan is your safe bet if your lifestyle is laid back.’ I knew he meant good. But I already had settled on a better course. So I said when he said once too often, ‘ But I found a better one, [...]
A Slice of Life: Life on the Go
Posted in life, tagged ageing, Benny Thomas, life and love, personal thoughts, slice of life on February 26, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I am at a stage life has come to mean something; funny it also means it doesn’t make much difference one way or other. I can see it as if it is happening to someone who has to live while each day I am on the go under creative urge. I almost wanted to write [...]
I Can’t Understand…
Posted in life, tagged Benny Thomas, civic responsibilities, life observations, morality, selfishness on February 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
I can’t understand why no one pulled the rug from under the feet of top investment bankers while they were steadily wrecking the nation’s economic health. No whistleblowers? Not even a twitch in their conscience when they were picking up the scraps thrown to them in fat bonuses and other perks. Is that the cause [...]
Please solve theses riddles for me
Posted in life, tagged Benny Thomas, humor, man, riddles of life on January 28, 2012 | 1 Comment »
If best things in life are free, why we occupy Wall Street or any other? 2.Why kill over religion? Merely because one makes a cut in his penis why demonize the rest of those who do not? Especially considering both parties hide it away for shame? These riddles are unlike the other sort, solved only [...]
Man is a funny animal
Posted in life, tagged battle of the sexes, Benny Thomas, common sense, humor, life, life experience, uncommon sense on January 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Man is a funny animal. Common sense tells him to mind his step. But his uncommon sense tells him to listen to his inner voice instead. 2. Common sense tells him to keep his secrets close to the chest but he blabbers it all to some shrink who happens more often than not, a total [...]
Love and Friendship
Posted in life, tagged bereavement, friendship, humanity, love, strength, suffering on January 22, 2012 | 4 Comments »
These days have been trying for me. A good friend of mine of some 50 years standing lost his only son. He was 38 years and suffered from autism, – a severe case at that,and was put in a group home which he seemed to like. Weekends he would come home and splurge on things [...]
Art and Life
Posted in art, life, tagged Aesthetics, altered states, Aristotle, Benny Thomas, Jacques Prevert, Jean Gabin, le jour sa leve, Marcel Carné, Oscar Wilde, Puccini, starry sky, Tosca, Van Gogh on January 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
It was Oscar Wilde who set out to show purpose of art and life are entirely different things. Art according to him has no moral duty to make life nobler or meaningful anymore than life lived in a certain manner can redeem artists to create masterpieces . Far from art imitating life Wilde holds that [...]