Funny, I never had a problem with it. I suppose I thought about it and attached my own meaning to it before anyone could impose a messed up one on it.
Accept what you can't change. Not a bad idea.
Change what you can. Ok, if it also happens to be something that needs changing and is worth my time and trouble.
The wisdom to know the difference. I suppose I read that more like the
prescience and keep trying to improve my odds over time.
My post was really intended as a very good humored poke at our other anon friend, JG. But I have another for our other anon friend.
"Step 1. We came to understand that the government is powerless over people's private use of drugs and that the War on Drugs was making the government's life unmanageable."
--Scott Tillinghast
...it is worth discussing radical changes, not in the expectation that they will be adopted promptly but for two other reasons. One is to construct an ideal goal, so that incremental changes can be judged by whether they move the institutional structure toward or away from that ideal. The other reason is very different. It is so that if a crisis requiring or facilitating radical change does arise, alternatives will be available that have been carefully developed and fully explored."
Anonymity Anonymous