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America
10-02-2007, 03:58 AM
okay your suppose to think beyond the obvious.

- "his tombstone should read, "died at 30, buried at 65."

-"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king."

-"Walk in a manner worthy of your purpose."

-"There is a landscape larger than the one you see."

- "we're here for a short time, what matters is what you leave behind."

Please anyone.. I really need help. What do they mean???:(

Logos
10-02-2007, 07:34 AM
- "his tombstone should read, "died at 30, buried at 65." "Many peoples' tombstones should read 'Died at 30, buried at 60.'" is from Nobel Prize winner Nicholas Murray Butler (http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/butler-bio.html) I don't know where this is from, maybe a speech or lecture, but Butler was Columbia University president, so I suspect it's got something to do with a person who doesn't make full use of their (intellectual) capacities.


-"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king." This is a common adage with biblical reference (the Lord smiting people with blindness (http://www.online-literature.com/bible/bible_view.php/2%20Kings?term=blind) etc. ), which can be interpreted many ways depending on context, originated in Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus's "Adagia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adagia)"


-"Walk in a manner worthy of your purpose." This idea is very common--I found a variation in Ephesians 4. (http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%204%20;&version=49;) which I think is pretty self-explanatory :)

bigmark35
11-01-2007, 06:21 PM
wow you guys are really good

Remarkable
12-01-2007, 05:37 PM
- "his tombstone should read, "died at 30, buried at 65."

The way I interprete it is that this person has intellectually and emotionally ceased to exist at 30 because of a choice or something else and finally at 65 this miserable life comes to an end.

-"In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king."

If you can understand only half of what you should and the others can't,you can make a difference and at least be heard.

This is what I think,if I'm of any help I don't know...

Remarkable
01-23-2008, 08:55 AM
- "his tombstone should read, "died at 30, buried at 65."



Who is the author?Or it's anonymous?

B-Mental
01-23-2008, 09:12 AM
In the land of the blind, the One-Eyed Jack is King!

B-Mental
01-23-2008, 09:20 AM
or all of the above, with one on each side or all down the front...the choice is yours, but you gave us a lot to work with...sorry for your loss.


My epitaph shall read

I will drink myself is sorrow
I will drink myself in health
I shall drink myself in poverty
Until I drink myself in Wealth
If I should die tah' morrow
Do not feel so Low
Come share a drink beside me
where the shaded green grass grows!