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Why on earth would I have to justify the way I express myself to anyone else?!!

 

Exactly. You are not a Paragraph...

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“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t.


And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”


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I never learned to type properly. Even though I'm in my 20's, I don't have the love of typing and technology that my peers do. I work with leather and steel, and prefer to spend my time outdoors. Adding to the general ambiance of my outdoors adventures, I write exclusively in journals that I make. A fountain pen is merely an extension of my mindset and hand.

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Charles Rice, on 22 Jan 2016 - 13:33, said:

Why on earth would I have to justify the way I express myself to anyone else?!!

 

I believe the point of the OP is not how to justify it to others, but how to justify (rationalize, if you will) it to yourself.

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I believe the point of the OP is not how to justify it to others, but how to justify (rationalize, if you will) it to yourself.

 

Why do I need to justify anything to MYSELF???

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Why do I need to justify anything to MYSELF???

Because an unexamined life is not worth living?

 

Hey, it's not my thread. I was just pointing out the original intent of it.

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Why do I need to justify anything to MYSELF???

 

Because one's resources (such as time and money) are not unlimited so, for some of us at least, we like to occasionally reflect on how we spend them. You don't need to do that and no one said you did. Plow ahead.

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Because one's resources (such as time and money) are not unlimited so, for some of us at least, we like to occasionally reflect on how we spend them. You don't need to do that and no one said you did. Plow ahead.

 

Nah, I think I'll just go for a swim.

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I deal with a lot of people face to face. Its easy to start a conversation when someone asks: Is that a Fountain Pen? Great conversation starter. Plus most people have no idea they are even made today. I have given many fountain pens away and some of the people I have given them to carry them daily. I have written 20 years of recipes with a Parker 51 most of them with the one my Father used. I watched him do the New York Times Sunday Crossword with it every week for years. He had beautiful handwriting. My Daughter uses one but my Son is a lefty.

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I believe the point of the OP is not how to justify it to others, but how to justify (rationalize, if you will) it to yourself.

In reading the OP it is not clear who the justification is to be given to.

 

Because an unexamined life is not worth living?

Using a FP is not a moral issue in my life.

 

Because one's resources (such as time and money) are not unlimited so, for some of us at least, we like to occasionally reflect on how we spend them.

Curious: do you reflect on the price of pencils, or table salt, or staples? I know we think highly of our pens, but let's not get too carried away. They're tools.

 

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Nah, I think I'll just go for a swim.

 

Good idea.

The water off Bondi is 24C at the moment.

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“Them as can do has to do for them as can’t.


And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.”


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Curious: do you reflect on the price of pencils, or table salt, or staples? I know we think highly of our pens, but let's not get too carried away. They're tools.

 

gary

 

I said resources, and noted that there are others besides money; it's really not a terribly complex concept. For example, ask someone with high blood pressure if he thinks about salt.

 

And who are you calling a tool?

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I said resources, and noted that there are others besides money; it's really not a terribly complex concept.

Nor is it terribly on point

 

 

For example, ask someone with high blood pressure if he thinks about salt.

As a resource, or as ice melt?

 

And who are you calling a tool?

 

Upon due reflection...

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this is very interesting....thanks....

Fred

...ladies and gentlemen..our target audience is nitwits..

and remember Crossword clues must be no more

challenging than The Husband of Eve...

 

~ Simei, the Fictitious Editor in Chief of the fictitious

newspaper Domani from the desk of Umberto Eco.

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Sad thing is that handwriting is being phased out of some schools in favor of using laptops and tablets in classrooms. I really can't comprehend how this can happen as it seems like writing by hand is essential to me, but I guess with the way technology is going, the majority of people do not write by hand much anymore. That to me is very strange, but I talk to people who say they haven’t used pen and paper in years.

 

I personally like the connection and tangibility of a nice fountain pen and paper. I find that I often want to write even if there is nothing to write. This has led me to start learning to draw. For me I just like the act of writing with a pen.

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Exactly. You are not a Paragraph...

 

:lticaptd:

Brings a new meaning to flushing a pen, though doesn't it?

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Cognition with a pen and paper is different.

 

I suppose I could be more productive (quantitatively) with a keyboard if forced into some kind of Stakhanovite movement.

 

However, I am far more creative (qualitatively) with a pen and paper and am fortunate enough not to have to give a proverbial monkey's about productivity.

 

That said, I do like the solid, tactile feel of my 1990 IBM model M keyboard, and appreciate the digital age's ability to communicate hic et nunc.

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Which has the best "ring" about it? ---- "I take my pen in hand to drop you a few lines." or "I touch the keys on my dot com machine to drop you a few lines." C. S.

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