"Joe" wrote
| Well thats more interesting than you rowing a sailboat backwards in an
| anchorage getting overtook by a speedboat 22.5 degreese abaft yer beam
| and night without proper running lights just inside the channel but in
| international waters.
|

I just read your post with people being cut in half and decapitated and other gory things.
You call that interesting, Joe? Maybe if your a serial killer or a pervert. Rules talk belongs here
more than blood and gore talk. You gotta be careful. When you accuse people make sure your
not guilty of the same thing or worse....

Cheers,
Ellen

Ellen MacArthur wrote:
"Joe" wrote
| Well thats more interesting than you rowing a sailboat backwards in an
| anchorage getting overtook by a speedboat 22.5 degreese abaft yer beam
| and night without proper running lights just inside the channel but in
| international waters.
|

I just read your post with people being cut in half and decapitated and other gory things.
You call that interesting, Joe? Maybe if your a serial killer or a pervert. Rules talk belongs here
more than blood and gore talk. You gotta be careful. When you accuse people make sure your
not guilty of the same thing or worse....

True trailor sailors like you will never encounter anything more
dangerious than a wet butt rash but........ gory things happen at sea,
and I rather talk about a 4" hauser parting and killing a sailor so
perhaps it will instill the importance of never turning your back on a
line under load. That may keep another person from such a preventable,
but too common an accident.

Makes more sence than talking about rowing a sailboat backwards thru
an anchorage any day.

You can chat fantasy all day, and that makes since because you are
your fantasy, have no boat, and never sail.

Joe



Cheers,
Ellen

Everyone gets old; eventually everyone dies. To not have compassion for
the human condition negates the com passionless one to being subhuman at
best but mire probably inhumane.

"katy" wrote
| Everyone gets old; eventually everyone dies. To not have compassion for
| the human condition negates the com passionless one to being subhuman at
| best but mire probably inhumane.



Good advice, Katy. I'm a little ashamed. Me and Thom got off on the wrong foot. I have compassion for
him, I really do. It's just that he needs to stop living in the past. He should be happy with the present. Complaining
about everything makes him grumpy. Lots of people are worse off than him. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.
Look at it this way. It's a blessing even in the taking away stage of life.....


Cheers,
Ellen

katysails wrote:
Everyone gets old; eventually everyone dies. To not have compassion for
the human condition negates the com passionless one to being subhuman at
best but mire probably inhumane.

I don't want to start off y disagreeing with a basically
good philosphy here, but not everyone gets old. Many people
die young.

As for compassion, it is one of the characteristics that
partially seperates humans from animals. To not have
compassion is to be an animal, not human.

To continue on this theme, are sock puppets human? If an
"internet character" dies, does he/she go to Heaven if he's
been good?

DSK

DSK wrote:
katysails wrote:
Everyone gets old; eventually everyone dies. To not have compassion
for the human condition negates the com passionless one to being
subhuman at best but mire probably inhumane.

I don't want to start off y disagreeing with a basically good philosphy
here, but not everyone gets old. Many people die young.

As for compassion, it is one of the characteristics that partially
seperates humans from animals. To not have compassion is to be an
animal, not human.

To continue on this theme, are sock puppets human? If an "internet
character" dies, does he/she go to Heaven if he's been good?

DSK

Nah...that's where limbo comes in...only pippets that get into heaven
are Elmo and Grover...and maybe Kermit.

Jeff,

I'm NOT against Colregs. I AM for moderation!

ASA has been a very successful discussion group BECAUSE it has never
been a "Johnny One Note!"




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"Thom Stewart" wrote
| ASA has been a very successful discussion group BECAUSE it has never
| been a "Johnny One Note!"



More like a Capt. Rob One Note. :-) Say your prayers, Thom. Be thankful your able to add to the
diversity. Just try to keep it on topic. Saying on topic posts are boring is dumb. Just don't read them.

Cheers,
Ellen

Thom Stewart wrote:
Jeff,

I'm NOT against Colregs. I AM for moderation!

Sorry, this group is unmoderated.



ASA has been a very successful discussion group BECAUSE it has never
been a "Johnny One Note!"

There is only one solution to that, start a thread on a different
topic. And that's what you did, sort of.

Jeff,

Any Discussion or Thought that keeps the Mind OPEN is a worthwhile
thing. Anything; even good things, that get stuck in a Rut need to be
freed!

It's something Neal has forgotten in his Retirement. He was the one who
developed vivacity in the ASA. It's what makes us a different sailing
discussion group. I've liked it. It's something we should all be aware
of and not let it get lost.

I think the Colregs have been overdone. That's my opinion. In this
group, I'm allowed to post it. Thanks be to the Almighty other don't
have to accept it.

That my friends is what a Good Discussion is about!!!

I think the "Colreg" has become BORING.




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