Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family relationships.

While it is not necessarily a bad thing to be over-involved in family
matters and relationships with all the commitments and burdens those
entail, it is mostly anathema for a sailor to succumb to such lubberly
conventions. No sir! Sailors must be an independent lot. There is just
no way one can merge lubberly family and friends affairs with the
pursuit of cruising. The sailing end of the bargain will be the end that
suffers or becomes dormant altogether.

I've seen it over and over again and it's quite a monument to failed
dreams that weddings, funerals, graduations, birthday celebrations and
the like yank sailors off the seven seas over and over until one finally
hears they've given up sailing altogether because of its impact their
shore side obligations.

Friends, you've got to put your collective feet down. You've got to just
say NO to lubberly, family and friends rituals. Why? Because any and all
of them interfere with the cruising life. It's a case of you can't have
your cake and eat it too.

Are you a sailor or are you a lubber?


Wilbur Hubbard

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family relationships.

While it is not necessarily a bad thing to be over-involved in family
matters and relationships with all the commitments and burdens those
entail, it is mostly anathema for a sailor to succumb to such lubberly
conventions. No sir! Sailors must be an independent lot. There is just
no way one can merge lubberly family and friends affairs with the
pursuit of cruising. The sailing end of the bargain will be the end that
suffers or becomes dormant altogether.

I've seen it over and over again and it's quite a monument to failed
dreams that weddings, funerals, graduations, birthday celebrations and
the like yank sailors off the seven seas over and over until one finally
hears they've given up sailing altogether because of its impact their
shore side obligations.

Friends, you've got to put your collective feet down. You've got to just
say NO to lubberly, family and friends rituals. Why? Because any and all
of them interfere with the cruising life. It's a case of you can't have
your cake and eat it too.

Are you a sailor or are you a lubber?


Wilbur Hubbard

====

It's too bad that your own family relationships are so poor or
non-existent. In the end the sea could care less about you, family
might.

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times
he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family
relationships.

While it is not necessarily a bad thing to be over-involved in family
matters and relationships with all the commitments and burdens those
entail, it is mostly anathema for a sailor to succumb to such lubberly
conventions. No sir! Sailors must be an independent lot. There is just
no way one can merge lubberly family and friends affairs with the
pursuit of cruising. The sailing end of the bargain will be the end
that
suffers or becomes dormant altogether.

I've seen it over and over again and it's quite a monument to failed
dreams that weddings, funerals, graduations, birthday celebrations and
the like yank sailors off the seven seas over and over until one
finally
hears they've given up sailing altogether because of its impact their
shore side obligations.

Friends, you've got to put your collective feet down. You've got to
just
say NO to lubberly, family and friends rituals. Why? Because any and
all
of them interfere with the cruising life. It's a case of you can't
have
your cake and eat it too.

Are you a sailor or are you a lubber?


Wilbur Hubbard

====

It's too bad that your own family relationships are so poor or
non-existent. In the end the sea could care less about you, family
might.




What this family relationship business all boils down to is a lack of
any kind of a sense of individual personal worth. It's a crutch more
than anything else.

Back in the day family meant something. Tribes meant something. Now that
there are billions of people, family and tribes don't mean squat. ****,
more than half the children these days are born out of wedlock.

What one must do is get one's priorities straight. Are you gonna sail
and be independent or are you gonna commiserate with family? You can't
really cruise as a lifestyle and do the family relationship business,
too, as the one is just not compatible with the other. If family
relationships are more important to a body then to go off cruising is to
be untrue to oneself. It's a form of multi-tasking where both endeavors
suffer . Seems to me all this family relationship business is highly
overrated. Seems to me that folks who attempt both at the same time are
doing neither right.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family relationships.


Ah yes. thus speaks the lad who was likely the poster boy for the
proverbial story about tossing out the baby with the wash water.
Apparently the basis of his often posted hatred of women.

--

Cheers,

Bruce

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:42:22 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Wayne.B" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times
he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family
relationships.

While it is not necessarily a bad thing to be over-involved in family
matters and relationships with all the commitments and burdens those
entail, it is mostly anathema for a sailor to succumb to such lubberly
conventions. No sir! Sailors must be an independent lot. There is just
no way one can merge lubberly family and friends affairs with the
pursuit of cruising. The sailing end of the bargain will be the end
that
suffers or becomes dormant altogether.

I've seen it over and over again and it's quite a monument to failed
dreams that weddings, funerals, graduations, birthday celebrations and
the like yank sailors off the seven seas over and over until one
finally
hears they've given up sailing altogether because of its impact their
shore side obligations.

Friends, you've got to put your collective feet down. You've got to
just
say NO to lubberly, family and friends rituals. Why? Because any and
all
of them interfere with the cruising life. It's a case of you can't
have
your cake and eat it too.

Are you a sailor or are you a lubber?


Wilbur Hubbard

====

It's too bad that your own family relationships are so poor or
non-existent. In the end the sea could care less about you, family
might.




What this family relationship business all boils down to is a lack of
any kind of a sense of individual personal worth. It's a crutch more
than anything else.


Thus speaks an individual who, to paraphrase the Supreme Court, "has
no socially redeeming qualities."

--

Cheers,

Bruce

On 10/29/2011 4:42 PM, Wilbur Hubbard wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family relationships.

While it is not necessarily a bad thing to be over-involved in family
matters and relationships with all the commitments and burdens those
entail, it is mostly anathema for a sailor to succumb to such lubberly
conventions. No sir! Sailors must be an independent lot. There is just
no way one can merge lubberly family and friends affairs with the
pursuit of cruising. The sailing end of the bargain will be the end that
suffers or becomes dormant altogether.

I've seen it over and over again and it's quite a monument to failed
dreams that weddings, funerals, graduations, birthday celebrations and
the like yank sailors off the seven seas over and over until one finally
hears they've given up sailing altogether because of its impact their
shore side obligations.

Friends, you've got to put your collective feet down. You've got to just
say NO to lubberly, family and friends rituals. Why? Because any and all
of them interfere with the cruising life. It's a case of you can't have
your cake and eat it too.

Are you a sailor or are you a lubber?


Wilbur Hubbard

====

It's too bad that your own family relationships are so poor or
non-existent. In the end the sea could care less about you, family
might.




What this family relationship business all boils down to is a lack of
any kind of a sense of individual personal worth. It's a crutch more
than anything else.

Back in the day family meant something. Tribes meant something. Now that
there are billions of people, family and tribes don't mean squat. ****,
more than half the children these days are born out of wedlock.

What one must do is get one's priorities straight. Are you gonna sail
and be independent or are you gonna commiserate with family? You can't
really cruise as a lifestyle and do the family relationship business,
too, as the one is just not compatible with the other. If family
relationships are more important to a body then to go off cruising is to
be untrue to oneself. It's a form of multi-tasking where both endeavors
suffer . Seems to me all this family relationship business is highly
overrated. Seems to me that folks who attempt both at the same time are
doing neither right.

Wilbur Hubbard

You ain't got nobody? So sad for you.

--
Jack Schidt

"WaIIy" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times
he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family
relationships.

You've got a real ****ing nasty side.



Nasty? What is it nasty or mean to observe that it's sad when people
like Skippy, who put family first - above even cruising, end up being
more traumatized when said family members pass away (as we ALL
eventually will)?

Seems to me that observation is just a statement of real life.

Wilbur Hubbard

"Bruce" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times
he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family
relationships.


Ah yes. thus speaks the lad who was likely the poster boy for the
proverbial story about tossing out the baby with the wash water.
Apparently the basis of his often posted hatred of women.

Try reading with a little more comprehension, Bruce.

Wilbur doesn't hate women. Wilbur loves women, but only certain types of
women. Liberal women, I do hate as they are despicable. Conservative
women who know their subservient role, I like as they are admirable.
Liberal women are hedonistic, selfish, ignorant, immoral and crass.
Conservative women are ascetic, selfless, informed, moral and cultured.
Liberal women want their man to serve them. Conservative women want to
serve their man.

Wilbur Hubbard

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:31:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"WaIIy" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times
he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family
relationships.

You've got a real ****ing nasty side.



Nasty? What is it nasty or mean to observe that it's sad when people
like Skippy, who put family first - above even cruising, end up being
more traumatized when said family members pass away (as we ALL
eventually will)?

Seems to me that observation is just a statement of real life.

Wilbur Hubbard

An indication of the ingratitude of the modern American. After your
parents bore you, raised you, attempted to instill some form of
education, and nurtured you until you are old enough to stand on your
own.

Teir reward?

According to that great humanitarian Willie-boy, to be ignored.

--

Cheers,

Bruce

On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:39:50 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

"Bruce" wrote in message
.. .
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 15:13:32 -0400, "Wilbur Hubbard"
wrote:

Skippy has been absent for several weeks, now. One of the last times
he
posted was when he said his dad was quite ill and probably didn't have
but a couple of weeks left. Sad news indeed, especially for somebody
like Skippy who seems to be overly dependent upon family
relationships.


Ah yes. thus speaks the lad who was likely the poster boy for the
proverbial story about tossing out the baby with the wash water.
Apparently the basis of his often posted hatred of women.

Try reading with a little more comprehension, Bruce.

Wilbur doesn't hate women. Wilbur loves women, but only certain types of
women. Liberal women, I do hate as they are despicable. Conservative
women who know their subservient role, I like as they are admirable.
Liberal women are hedonistic, selfish, ignorant, immoral and crass.
Conservative women are ascetic, selfless, informed, moral and cultured.
Liberal women want their man to serve them. Conservative women want to
serve their man.

Wilbur Hubbard


Willie-boy, your apparent change of heart after all these years of
insults and slander of the "weaker sex" and their place on a cruising
boat is revealing in the sense that it illustrates the terror you feel
at the possibility that someone will open the closet door and discover
you lurking there. Your recent prevarications demonstrate how firmly
you are wedged into the closet and your terror of the possibility of
discovery.

Your attempt to politicize women is an obvious move to demonize them
to allow you to demonstrate a semi-legitimate viewpoint (except that
this kind is no good, and that kind is not good, etc.) in order to
appear to be espousing a normal attitude toward the male-female
relationship while not obscuring your real preferences to your closet
mates.

--

Cheers,

Bruce