damaclese

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1. Why did you choose your screen name? What is your real name? (optional
Really name is Paul i picked Damaclese really spelled Damocles because of its historic significants to how i feel about life: The story
The Damocles of the anecdote was an obsequious courtier in the court of Dionysius II of Syracuse, a fourth century BCE tyrant of Syracuse. Damocles exclaimed that, as a great man of power and authority, Dionysius was truly fortunate. Dionysius offered to switch places with him for a day, so he could taste first hand that fortune. In the evening a banquet was held where Damocles very much enjoyed being waited upon like a king. Only at the end of the meal did he look up and notice a sharpened sword hanging directly above his head by a single horse-hair. Immediately, he lost all taste for the fine foods and beautiful boys and asked leave of the tyrant, saying he no longer wanted to be so fortunate.[1][4]

Dionysius had successfully conveyed a sense of the constant fear in which the great man lives. Cicero uses this story as the last in a series of contrasting examples for reaching the conclusion he had been moving toward in this fifth Disputation, in which the theme is that virtue is sufficient for living a happy life.[5] Cicero asks

"Does not Dionysius seem to have made it sufficiently clear that there can be nothing happy for the person over whom some fear always looms?"[6]

citation: wikipedia


2. Why did you join IBS?................................ got a Williams hybrid from Stokes tropicals there culture sheets were horrible so went to the web to find better info and found IBS in a search

3. What's your favorite banana plant?................................... Enset Ventracosum Murellii big beautiful and heat tolerant dos int mind low humidity

4. One thing people don't know about me is.................................i play the Piano and Pipe organ and am a published Composer of contemporary Classical music currently working on a symphony entitled Exotic Travails in #D min

5. My hobbies are..... any thing out side I'm an avid cyclist hiker and armature body builder i build and fly R.C. Planes reading and home remodeling Cooking and music theirs more but i don't want to look like I'm bragging

6. Show a peek of yourself as a child (optional)...........................i Have no pictures of my self as a young person

7. My favorite food is................................... being a chef this is tough Fish Tacos and Pennsylvania Dutch as well as German cooking

8. My zodiac sign is.......................................... Gemini

9. One thing I really hate is..................................... ego driven people that use ambiguous language to hide behind so that they can inflict hurt on less powerful people all the wile they delude them selfs in to thinking they are just being helpful or informative

10. One of my surprising talents is......................................... I can Tailor clothing as well as sew.

11. One thing I do everyday is............................................ creative visualization

12. If I had a million dollars, I'd........................................ues it to bring joy and comfort to my Life partner of 18 year Wesley as well as the many others i love


13. One place I'd love to go is..........................................Peru

14. One thing I would want people to say about me when I am 6 feet under is............................. I Loved him and i know he loved me

15. Two things I really love are.......................................... By Boy Friend Wesley and are two dogs Patrick and Cesar

16. One book I enjoyed was..................................... "The Children of Morrow" this book pretty much shaped the way i think about what a society should be i read it when i was 9 years old heres a Small synopsis:
Tia and Rabbit are considered odd by their primitive post-apocalyptic community. They share the same dreams of a far more civilized community and wish to escape their home, where Tia is considered a blasphemous witch. Several hundred miles away, Ashira and Varas reside, their telepathic powers receiving Tia and Rabbit's thoughts and wondering where they are. After Rabbit accidentally kills the head cook, they have to run. Guided by Ashira and Varas, they must make their way to the sea and safety. this book is an excellent analysis of the juckst of position between A Utopian technologically driven race and a Autocratic warrior race driving by power and the persuit of domains over weaker peoples



I choose to put in the spotlight next............................................... chong

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