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WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WAS NEW AT THE 2019 "LOVE NEVER FAILS" REGIONAL CONVENTION ?


James Thomas Rook Jr.

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I realize there are many reasons to go to an Assembly, or Convention, and when my children were living at home they would go to others' conventions  for a variety of reasons, as well as their own.

I would always ask them when they returned home "What did you learn that was new?" .  This was important to me as I had to work long hours to afford to finance their explorations and socialization, which I thought was important ... but I still expected them to learn something new ... and since I was paying for their travels, to tell me what was going on.

Generally, attendance to an out of town Convention nearby would cost about $200 a day, times three days, so that would be $600.

Now that I am retired, and my income has been cut by about 80%, it's even MORE important to me to want to get good value for the time and money I would be spending for my wife and I to spend three days, traveling out of town, to learn something of lasting value .... something worth at least three days of our time, which is painfully obviously shorter, and the what is now considerable effort and considerable expense.

In Engineering it's important that the "Law of diminishing returns" be observed so that you do not go physically, mentally or emotionally bankrupt.

Perhaps I am just asking for some encouragement that the effort is worth the cost and effort, and that the benefit is worth it, so if I may ask ......

WHAT DID YOU LEARN THAT WAS NEW AT THE 2019 "LOVE NEVER FAILS" REGIONAL CONVENTION ?

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I took a great many notes with the intent to write up a post or two that never happened, crowded out by too many other things to do. It was in between days that I, for the first time ever, blocked several apostates at once as they had, for the first time ever, ganged up on me. They had pierced my up-to-then successful armor of always linking to a post with my replies, effectively answering their 50 words with my 1000. Like charging a hill, caring not if they got mowed down, they came at me anyway. I would return to the hotel from a day at the convention and find a score or more of nastigrams from them, eager to call attention to the ARC or something—all this with a wife who wanted to go out to supper or walk or unwind, and who is not terribly enthused about my online activity in the first place. So I blasted them all away, and for reasons I no longer recall—I must have been watching Star Trek reruns, I drew heavily on that show for symbolism:

https://www.tomsheepandgoats.com/2019/08/blocking-trolls-the-star-trek-way-i-didnt-want-to-do-it.html

There you go. Your first comment. Happy?

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6 minutes ago, TrueTomHarley said:

There you go. Your first comment. Happy?

Whoa! Something within that link—a specific answer to your question.

I learned that Brother Herd, who may not even know what political correctness is, will never reprove me for ‘fat-shaming.’

Establishing the point that it is the heart that matters, he floated the quandary of marrying the woman—an excellent catch—with the heart of pure gold, even though she “clocks in at 200 pounds.” Is he a diplomat or what?

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Thanks for your reply, TTH ... I suppose that things one learns at an Assembly depends a lot on insight, and experience, as well as motivation.

I too, look to Star Trek reruns for inspiration and symbolism, and I don't have to drive 150 miles each way.

Have you seen the "Star Trek - Next Generation" episode "The Sins of the Father"?,

(Season Three, Episode 65... which is on YouTube)

where Worf is unjustly "disfellowshipped" from the Klingon Empire?

It "encouraged" me when in order to protect his people, he accepted  unjust discommendation without a whimper, for the greater good of the stability of the Empire.

..... insight is where you find it.

 

 

 

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I am 301 pounds of spring steel, and rawhide ... albeit with some rust and scuff marks.

Think of a more handsome blend of the Incredible Hulk, Jack Reacher, and Sean Connery.

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I used to be able to leap tall buildings with a single bound, but now it takes a good running start, several bounds, and a nap.

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20 hours ago, James Thomas Rook Jr. said:

Have you seen the "Star Trek - Next Generation" episode "The Sins of the Father"?,

I haven’t seen that one (that I can recall—actually, I probably have but cannot recall it, for I have seen many. There is a certain ‘hoakiness’ to Star Trek that I can at times overlook and at times not. In general, the latter episodes of ‘Next’ were better than the former, and infinitely better than the Shatner ones. 

They have a way of being ‘preachy’—showcasing modern concerns in an outer space setting. When I read up on history of the genre, I learned that this was by design. Guys like Roddenberry (and Serling before him) knew certain themes did not play well to everyday audiences, who were not ‘ready’ for them. But put them in a sci-fi setting, and they went down just fine. 

I haven’t seen any of the new Picard series either. Have you? Are they any good? One person said of a certain episode that it was almost too ‘intense’ for him. I think we can see it free if we like—we have CBS streaming, which we presently make use of to watch Perry Mason shows. It costs a little bit per month, but since otherwise our television has always been entirely what comes from antenna, overall, it is pretty affordable. 

In last night’s exiting Perry Mason, Perry backed into the villain and impaled him on the tail fin of his Cadillac.

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