tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847836240668046283.post3866175287178138598..comments2023-06-04T10:39:27.236-04:00Comments on Just Thinking...: Life's a Funny Proposition!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847836240668046283.post-37651183127510357622013-04-12T14:23:50.446-04:002013-04-12T14:23:50.446-04:00Thе ԁefensе, lіke Pittsburgh's, has aged. Be s...Thе ԁefensе, lіke Pittsburgh's, has aged. Be sure to do a proper market research about that product as well as smartphones and smart TV s. Step #2: Train your people on how you want to be successful in this venture. It also includes embarrassing attempts by Reilly to try Nude business Bicycle Racing, Zorbing, Extreme Ironing, the World Rock Paper Scissors Championships and an unfortunate week on a regular, if not most, people. What amount of initial investment is needed? This is plutonium-grade hokum.<br /><br />Feel free to visit my weblog :: <a href="http://www.wphub.in/members-2/rudolfdug/activity/7577/" rel="nofollow">internet marketing analytics</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847836240668046283.post-83839249512064911622010-12-22T00:51:36.132-05:002010-12-22T00:51:36.132-05:00TO: Donald B. Ardell PhD from Seek-Wellness,
htt...TO: Donald B. Ardell PhD from Seek-Wellness,<br /><br /> http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/ <br /><br />Thanks Donald for your insightful comment. It's nice to know that somebody else gets it besides me. <br /><br />I also greatly appreciate meaningful and poignant lyrics. Most of my friends, however think the song was morbid and depressing. I wonder what they would say if I ever posted the lyrics to "Dust in the Wind " by Kansas or Don McLean's "Vincent"<br /><br />I used the link you sent to read your entire essay and greatly enjoyed it. Also, thanks for turning me onto the Seek-Wellness site in general. I took great pleasure in reading the Atheist's Perspective on Christmas very well done.Eddie O'Reillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03547406730604991117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847836240668046283.post-56919113894757864272010-12-21T18:12:00.089-05:002010-12-21T18:12:00.089-05:00I wrote about this song from a meaning of life wel...I wrote about this song from a meaning of life wellness perspective many years ago. Here is the essay, posted at http://www.seekwellness.com/wellness/reports/2001-09-24.htm<br /><br />Life's A Very Funny Proposition After All! <br />Monday September 24, 2001<br /><br />No matter what may happen, Whatever may befall, I only know I'm mighty glad I'm living, That is all. George M. Cohan, "I'm Mighty Glad I'm Living," 1910<br /><br />I believe the bottom line challenge for wellness seekers lies in finding, and sustaining, sufficient meaning and purpose in life. Once that is achieved, other lifestyle interests are more likely to appeal and fall into place. Books, poems, movies and yes, songs about meaning and purpose interest me greatly. No song has been of more fascination than "Life's A Very Funny Proposition After All!" <br /><br />It was written and recorded 90 years ago by George M. Cohan, the composer of so many patriotic songs, such as "Yankee Doodle Dandy," "Over There" and "You're A Grand Old Flag."<br /><br />"Life's A Very Funny Proposition After All" was composed for and featured in a Broadway play in 1911 entitled "Little Johnny Jones." You can hear this lovely but haunting song on a cassette entitled Niper's Greatest Hits 1901-1920 (1991 BMG Music). <br /><br />The first part of "Life's A Very Funny Proposition After All" invites the listener to think about the ultimate questions, as follows:<br /><br />Did you ever sit and ponder, Sit and wonder, sit and think, Why we're here and what this life is all about? It's a problem that has driven many brainy men to drink, It's the weirdest thing they've tried to figure out.<br /><br />That stanza surely got everyone's attention in the play "Little Johnny Jones." The next is equally arresting:<br /><br />"About a thousand different theories the scientists can show, But never yet have proved a reason why. With all we've thought and all we're taught Why all we seem to know is we're born, live a while, then we die, Life's a very funny proposition after all."<br /><br />How do we spend our days? George M. Cohan does not paint a pretty pictue:<br /><br />"Imagination, jealousy, hypocrisy, love, Three meals a day, a whole lot to say, When you haven't got the coin, You're always in the way. Everybody's fighting, we wend our way along, Every fellow claims, the other fellow's in the wrong, Hurried and worried, until we're buried There's no curtain call. Life's a very funny proposition after all."<br /><br />George notes that there are good times and bad, that we are all different but eventually time runs out, so live well while you can:<br /><br />(Continued at site due to space limits here)Donald B. Ardellhttp://www.seekwellness.com/wellnessnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847836240668046283.post-3023425389186204202010-12-09T12:29:56.803-05:002010-12-09T12:29:56.803-05:00I too love Boardwalk Empire, great show! The song...I too love Boardwalk Empire, great show! The song about "Life" at the end was the perfect way to cap off season one. Thanks for providing the lyrics.Mitchnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-847836240668046283.post-69333701832622651092010-12-08T16:01:20.724-05:002010-12-08T16:01:20.724-05:00The music throughout Boardwalk empire was a revela...The music throughout Boardwalk empire was a revelation,that final scene with Eddie Cantor singing Proposition sent me to the web looking for the lyrics ,and brought me to your site.The more things change....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com