* I have been posting on GNI since Jan 2012, and even though I have never met anyone I feel like I know some of the folks here. It's a nice family we have here.

* Sure at times posters cuss each other out, but the humanness in everyone comes out when we read and respond to sad news like Amral's Mom and wife passing or Chams husband passing.

* LIFE HAS A WAY OF TESTING AND CONFOUNDING ALL OF US.

Rev

funny thing is when you see people of your age group dying ( I know in our minds we still feel like we are teenagers), you are always shocked because you feel that they haven't really "lived" yet....

Tomorrow is promised to no one

Living is seeing your kids grow up, get married, have kids of their own...enjoy the grandkids...maybe be lucky to see great grandkids

Why? What's the relationship between life is short and living peacefully?

oh rant idrine...

I AGREE with you Bhai.  I dream of such a life.

me too... I agree with Raymond

maybe that's why I have been feeling very content recently. 

Haven't seen any great-grands....but you never know......my first grand is already 7 years old!!

* That sounds like EXISTING to me not LIVING.

* If you are around long enough you'll see your kids grow up and get married and have kids of their own, which makes you a grandparent. And if you are blessed with a few more years you'll see your grandchildren have children and that makes you a great grand parent.

* BUT IS THAT REALLY LIVING ?

* I guess for most people that is really LIVING.

* Oh well! To each his own.

Rev

I forgot to add...see the kids achieve success and mek plenty money so they can pay yuh back for all the expenses

living is what gives you the greatest joy...

Of course, I love to travel...see new places...do fun stuff...and hopefully I'll have the health and ability to continue to do such things...(i do plenty of that with the kids right now)

Ultimately, what gives me the greatest joy is to see the kids grow up etc etc....

test

you never think that maybe you could do something good for this world in your life time

* NICE POST.

* One of the best feelings in the world is knowing someone is happy because of you. Right now your kids are surely happy because of your love and dedication and hard work. Oh! Your wife also.

* Living is giving; Living is dreaming and achieving those dreams; Living is creating the life you want to live and living it; Living is different things for different folks.

BOTTOM LINE:

SOME PEOPLE EXIST; OTHERS LIVE.

Rev

You like da wan deh dready?

Keep dreaming, But you is lucky if you get any return finance wise, but there will be lots of love.  

How about you asking yourself this question and follow through on it?

Very nice Rev!!!

That is exactly existing and not living but as you said each his own.

What about if you cannot have a child, then what?

Get a dog

Adopt

me living 4 miles up

https://www.facebook.com/photo...277&l=87ee9518c2

he decided to skip the climb

https://www.facebook.com/photo...555&l=6e727885d8

NICE FAMILY RAY.

* So how many stones have you dropped since you started your mountain climbing adventures ?

* The lovely wifey in great shape----yuh gat to keep up ray.

* Son taller than you ray---is he the one questioning God ? That's a wise young man.

Rev

I do not claim you as family so cut that crap out. I recognize you as a infective host  and  I have my bio-hazard gear on at all times in your presence.

Life is just a term over which an organism exist in the life-possible  construct we call a habitable zone in the universe. Most organism occupy that time with the necessities of specie survival and no other purpose.

Humans on the other hand attach to it meaning, significance and give it the status of an instrumental good. That it is elevated to such exalted positions is no more than our desire to think we are special and are here for a special purpose.

In the end it is but a time frame over which one happen to live and has significance only to us in our individual roles recognized by close friends and family. We have no special purpose.

There is a black sheep in every family Stormborn and you are the black sheep in the GNI family.

* Complain and rant and rave all you want stormy but you are still part of the GNI family.

Rev 

I bet the lady and her progeny had to drag you up... what happened to the intensity thingy?

working on it still

My son was pissed at me...round trip should have been about 5- 6 hours...I held them back 2 extra hours...ankle pain

Understandable. My left knee has taken to annoy me after rides Doctor and their gismos say nothing is wrong...I tell them it hurts like hell  so I get a shot of cortisone and told to stay off it.  It helps but it is evidence that age is here to spoil my fun. I stopped eating starch and the weight melted away. Just start eating good and walk 3 miles a day.

I may need that shot...pain really cramps my style

CHECK OUT THIS NEW TREATMENT---IT FREEZES THE PAIN AWAY

The technique is called Iovera, and it uses nitrous oxide canisters to freeze tiny needles to minus 126 degrees. Once injected into the skin, the needles freeze the pain nerves and create instant relief.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/20...y-chronic-knee-pain/

I have had cortisone shots in the past. They reduce the swelling and temporarily reduce the pain. However, when the cortisone wears out, the pain returns. When the pain is gone, you have a false feeling that you are back to normal and you return to doing and overdoing. This it seems causes more harm and the pain to return. I think they recommend that you cannot have more than 3 shots in a 12 month period.

Rev,

I tried accupuncture and was amazed at the results. I have dengenerative discs in my neck and was treated with regular physical therapy with very little improvement. The accupuncture did the job.

skelly:

* Acupuncture has been around for over 2000 years. I am sure it has its benefits. It surely helped you with your neck issues.

Rev

Going for that tomorrow (Thur) for same reason, I had this for 20 years now and just re injured after falling down my back stairs while carrying my PA system and also in August while on my way to Calgary (Western Cda) I stood up to let my daughter go by for the washroom but didn't give my head the room it needed. I came to an abrupt stop with pain, good thing I had my neck brace that I recently bought.

The problem also with Cortisone I learned is that it takes much longer for a therapist to work through an area with cortisone in it, cortisone apparently does not break down I have to look into that one.

Cortisone can also pain like heck for about a day then the pain starts to subside.

jeez...bunch ah men with plenty pains...no wonder we come on here to sound off

I got mine from being active. I was working on a bathroom and while removing the throne, the bolts holding it were bent and as I came up there was a sudden stop and these friken sudden stops is what kills ya.

Dam thing gave me a hernia as well as a frigged up neck. But 'slong as Iman still breathing, stand with no problem and can scratch my baltz with ease, I feel irie.

mine too...although I need to lose like 20 pounds

but most importantly, can u sccatch your baltz?

Rumour has it it's the new Guyanese greeting

i can come and kick you in the neck,it will do me some good as for you maybe,but i know your brain have no hope