Mikhail Nikolayevich If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them

play more backgammon (read all 8 entries…)
the dice were with me 4 years ago

...again tonight, two outings in a row! My backgammon buddy must be feeling pretty sore just now.

Naturally I consider myself to be the better player, or at least more willing to take a risk.

Love backgammon!



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Amy don't waste a day

When seeking the truth gets you down...

“I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly depraved of the use of every member and faculty. Most fortunately it happens that, since reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends; and when, after three or four hours amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther…” (David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature, 1739)

Mikhail Nikolayevich If Heaven made someone, earth can find some use for them

it's so good

...to have that quote, thank you.

I used to have the reference for it but misplaced it.

So you’ve read the English empiricists then;-)


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