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Originally Posted by B.Barnato
I suggest renaming the forum go hug yourself.
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For a decade I've been telling people at GFY that I love them. In spite of my angry persona and my contrived bouts of vitriol, I truly love this place. Why would I even be here ten years on if I did not love GFY? I don't make any money here. I have no sig.
I love the vitality of GFY. The emotions, the opinions. GFY may not be what it WAS once upon a time, but it still has the ability to rile people up.
Unfortunately, too many of us are divided by politics and religion. But there will always be the English language, and - once upon a time - Americans dominated the language. They changed it to reflect the values of a new world.
Here are a few words from a true American:
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ME imperturbe, standing at ease in Nature,
Master of all or mistress of all, aplomb in the midst of irrational
things,
Imbued as they, passive, receptive, silent as they,
Finding my occupation, poverty, notoriety, foibles, crimes, less
important than I thought,
Me toward the Mexican sea, or in the Mannahatta or the Tennessee,
or far north or inland,
A river man, or a man of the woods or of any farm-life of these
States or of the coast, or the lakes or Kanada,
Me wherever my life is lived, O to be self-balanced for
contingencies,
To confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as
the trees and animals do.
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(Cut and paste - I could not honestly remember the words...)
Master of all or mistress of all. Beautiful.