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What Or Who Is Your Worst Enemy?
July 23, 2017, 05:44 PM
slosigWhat Or Who Is Your Worst Enemy?
quote:
Originally posted by Sock Eating Golden:
Pilots.
Just pilots, or employees in general? Although, having worked in high tech and seen how managing engineers really is like herding cats, and as an ATP rated pilot, I've got to imagine pilots aren't any more fun to manage than engineers...
July 23, 2017, 06:03 PM
DbltapPathological Islam, progressivism, liberalism.
July 23, 2017, 06:34 PM
joatmonvquote:
Originally posted by dewhorse:
myself
Yep, I am my own worst enemy, no two ways about it.
I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.
July 23, 2017, 06:36 PM
Skins2881Myself. Laziness and fear.
Jesse
Sic Semper Tyrannis July 23, 2017, 06:39 PM
BytesPerfect. Perfect is the enemy of good. Good is nice.
July 23, 2017, 07:37 PM
SpinZoneGoing blind.
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July 23, 2017, 07:45 PM
lowflashThe ill effects of exposure to Agent-Orange but then on the other hand I'm still among the living
July 23, 2017, 08:23 PM
Johnny 3eaglesquote:
Originally posted by lowflash:
The ill effects of exposure to Agent-Orange but then on the other hand I'm still among the living
+1
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July 23, 2017, 08:39 PM
GustoferEveryone who is out to get me.
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July 23, 2017, 08:44 PM
H&K-Guyquote:
Originally posted by Gustofer:
Everyone who is out to get me.
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
H&K-Guy
July 23, 2017, 11:39 PM
2010ChallengerMy arch enemy from my high school days died long ago, but my lifetime enemy is doing very well.
Food. Sometimes, I wish I would lose my sense of taste and smell as a friend of our family did. She had zero issues staying thin, as everything was as blah as it could be. After 19+ years of having no taste, it came back one morning as her son was cooking bacon. What a great thing to smell for the first time in almost 20 years. She put on a bunch of weight the first year after it came back, but then got down to her normal weight again. If only the rest of her life had been so undramatic. She really had a lot of bad stuff happen to her after she retired and moved to FL.
July 24, 2017, 02:05 AM
TomVThe Great State Of California.
July 24, 2017, 06:48 AM
BassamaticInteresting question. I would have to say my own mortality. I'm 70 and my years are obviously numbered.
As I watch my little grand daughter grow up, I find myself thinking about things like will I be around when she graduates from High School, gets married, whatever. I imagine that is fairly normal thinking for people as they age.
.....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. July 24, 2017, 07:49 AM
RB211At the moment? The pituitary tumor I am fighting.
In general? I am my own worst enemy.
July 24, 2017, 08:04 AM
JALLENquote:
Originally posted by Bassamatic:
Interesting question. I would have to say my own mortality. I'm 70 and my years are obviously numbered.
As I watch my little grand daughter grow up, I find myself thinking about things like will I be around when she graduates from High School, gets married, whatever. I imagine that is fairly normal thinking for people as they age.
How's your health?
My in laws lived into their 90's, and my m-i-l is still with us.
I was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis 6 and a half years ago. The statistics are that 80% of those diagnosed do not live 5 years after diagnosis.
I'm 71 now. No telling if I will make it to 72. There is no point worrying about what tie I will wear at my granddaughters' weddings. They are 8 and 10 now.
I can't regard mortality as an enemy. It is and has been part of the deal. You've known for decades that every life comes to this, either to final nothingness as some believe and expect, to to some glorious next stage as many believe. No one knows.
My wife believes in reincarnation. I don't, and I didn't last time either.
We're just along for the ride.
Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.
When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson
"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown July 24, 2017, 08:46 AM
Fla. Jim
July 24, 2017, 08:51 AM
46and2Do snakes count? Mosquitoes?
Realistically, it's probably time. I'd like to live forever and surely won't.
July 24, 2017, 08:56 AM
darthfusterAll evil is based in selfishness. So I'd say my worst enemy is selfishness.
You’re a lying dog-faced pony soldier July 24, 2017, 09:24 AM
Jimbo54For me, it's the cancer I spent all of 2016 fighting and the possibility of it rearing it's ugly head again. I know better than to worry about it but I can't shake the fear. Having said that, it seems that I'm my worst enemy for worrying about something I have little control over.
Jim
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July 24, 2017, 11:40 AM
YooperSigsTime: I am on the downhill side of life now.
Fear: Not for myself, but for my son. I feel our society and country are in a continuing decline and cant help wondering how that will play out for him. For all of us.
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