The RIP Thread...

[FireFighterZero]

That was cool.

 

[Husabud]

BB King

 

[BlackSmith]

RIP BB King. He was one of a kind.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Look up. ^^^^

 

[Altissimus]

...got to see him a couple times , the Man ...King Of The Blues. Played out regular nearly to the end...

 

[FireFighterZero]

I saw it last night about midnight. All I could say was oh no.
He was something else.

 

[Fiddler]

BB was a master entertainer.

 

[Cobleskill]

I remember watching him on Johnny Carson in the early '70s with a bunch of friends, being held spellbound.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It sucks how life is a death sentence.

 

[FireFighterZero]

That bothers me sometimes Butch.

It shouldn't, I guess.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It would be nice to be ignorant of death, like the other animals. Or at the least death should never be a suffering event.

 

[FireFighterZero]

I get worried that I have not got enough done. Not enough time spent doing what ever I am supposed to be doing. I worry that I will die and I will not have spent enough quality time with the kids.

 

[MasterBlaster]

None of that really matters at all, not one bit.

 

[FireFighterZero]

Yeah, but isn't guilt a good motivator to be a good/better person?

 

[MasterBlaster]

Guilt doesn't play into any of this, in my world.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Nothing wrong with having guilt, if you can observe it and understand what it is in the moment that you feel it, and not be caught up in it and a victim to one's emotions. I see the challenge as wanting to do what you think is necessary, but also being free from ambition. Stay light on your feet. Wanting to be a good/better person, it's only desire like all the other misleading things that pull humans and focus attention away from their now. Freedom is everything, and from it springs the good things that one can have and provide, to our children as well.

There is an old zen story about when the monastery abbot was looking for a successor, he had become very elderly. He posed a question to all the disciples, something along the lines of how do we think of ourselves. The student that everyone thought would get the job, said, "Always wipe the dust clean from the mirror in your mind". A good answer, but not the one the abbot was looking for. The person that did end up getting the job was a lowly kitchen boy, though he was not even considered, who said, "To have no mirror in your mind for dust to settle upon".

 

[stig]

"Death is the mother of beauty"

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Yeah, but isn't guilt a good motivator to be a good/better person?

Love can be a better motivator. Love for your children. Love of your community...

 

[cory]

You guys know Dean Potter? A serious rock climbing and BASE jumping legend. Google has it he just died wing suiting. Real bummer news if it is true.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Looks like he and another flyer didn't clear a notch in a ridge line, both smacked into the rocks. Again an illegal activity that they were doing in the park. Not much room for error in that game.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Lordy!

Link?

 

[woodworkingboy]

http://www.outsideonline.com/1981591/dean-potter-killed-base-jumping-accident

 

[MasterBlaster]

I wonder if he was wearing a GoPro...

 

[woodworkingboy]

Wing suit jumpers are nuts flying so close to the rocks.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That goes w/o saying, LOL!