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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
i never said the score didnt matter. i said it wasnt the most important thing. and if your philosophy is as stated above, i guess that is fine for you. personally i couldnt live that way.
personal integrity matters to me and i think it matters to most people. if you have bought into that harsh winning is the only thing attitude, well, too bad for you.
i suppose the folks i do business with you would say are all losers because they arent the richest. but i know i can depend on them to have done what they said they did. that is what matters to me.
and that is integrity.
tom w
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Well, if scores aren't the thing we are trying to achieve, I wouldn't keep score. Know many teams that just play and not keep score? I do hear many groups that do say that scores aren't important and all that when they lose to comfort the players. Whether I can live that way or not is not important. The world IS that way. We can choose to see it as it is or lie to ourselves. Me, I NEVER lie to myself.
It doesn't matter if I buy into it or not. The world is that way. They will say all the nice things but when it comes down to it, well, they seem to act in a different way. Just my observation a long time ago. Nothing has changed to convince me that it is wrong yet.
Well, the fact is pretty much everyone is a loser on that scale. At least pretty much everyone I know including myself. I don't trust people that far. As much as I can, I verify every now and then to make sure they are doing what they say they are doing. When it goes out long enough, I haven't had people that disappoint me since I am ready for them to do weird things. Sure, there are pleasant surprises in the short run but in the long run, people haven't been what they seem. I hope for the best but expect the worse. So it is always a pleasant surprise or I am expecting. Seems to work best.