Posted on 10/06/2011 12:25:33 PM PDT by aquila48
What’s with you thinking you can comment that SJ is the greatest person in the whole wide world without any differing views else you think the Admin Mod should do something about it? Grow up.
Guess I fell for his trap, why are there so many haters on here... Anyway, I found this interesting thought I’d pass it on.
Isaacson’s last interview...
A few weeks ago, I visited Jobs for the last time in his Palo Alto, Calif., home. He had moved to a downstairs bedroom because he was too weak to go up and down stairs. He was curled up in some pain, but his mind was still sharp and his humor vibrant. We talked about his childhood, and he gave me some pictures of his father and family to use in my biography. As a writer, I was used to being detached, but I was hit by a wave of sadness as I tried to say goodbye. In order to mask my emotion, I asked the one question that was still puzzling me: Why had he been so eager, during close to 50 interviews and conversations over the course of two years, to open up so much for a book when he was usually so private? “I wanted my kids to know me,” he said. “I wasn’t always there for them, and I wanted them to know why and to understand what I did.”
Your comment was a non-sequitur. Did you really find that to be an intelligent resonse?
“How about this one for a better thought:
“I am NOT going to die today and I WILL be around for a long time. I will have to live with the consequences of the actions I take today.”
If someone had drilled that into Congress’s head about 50 years ago, we wouldn’t be in the mess we are in. Not to mention there would probably be a few million less tattoos.”
Actually, I think 99.99% of the people live by that thought (i.e. they think they’ll be around a long time)... and we’re still screwed up! It’s the second part of your thought that people seem to avoid.
I realized a while back that the appeal of the liberals is that they’re in the business of eliminating personal consequences and transferring them to society as a whole.
Thinking for yourself hardly seems to describe most “Progressives”. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Contradictory and confusing article. - I know of no more “dogma” than that coming from the Democrat Party, which has in large part evolved into the Commiecrat Party. ALL Republicans aren’t Conservative; in fact, SOME are RINOS, but not like the Democrat Party on their worst day.
“Your comment was a non-sequitur. Did you really find that to be an intelligent resonse?”
Absolutely - given your tag line and your comment.
And given your self-righteousness, I’d still like to know what you would do with your daughter if she decided to become a muslim.
Where have I said that? I've never made any comment regarding Jobs other than addressing the sicko's such as you. I'm sick and tired of your pathological stalking of Jobs on these threads......give it up, go away and get yerself a life!
Yes you did......look at all of Toad's prior comments today and you will find that he's crapped on every Jobs thread running. He's a classic THREAD STALKER
Did he really say this? I did some poking around and found this video of a speech he gave at Stanford in 2005: Jobs Last Speeach on How to Live
It is a well written speech and makes three points: (1) Follow your heart; (2) Love what you do; (3) Remember that you'll be dead soon. It's during this last point that he makes the above statement relating to "death: life's change agent." Commendable points to some degree, but hopelessly lacking in terms of eternal perspective.
We discover in the Bible that death was never meant to be. Life didn't invent it. Death is the consequence of sin.
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23)
Death doesn't not have to be the end.
It reminds me of “living for today” - a hippie Beatle’s mantra that was adopted by the boomers and has not served the next generation so well in the debt, moral, honor and family departments of life.
You're one to talk. You bash Jobs for a mistake he made early in life for which he later made amends. You treat his personal growth as somehow proof he was not a good person.
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