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Title: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: BattleHymn on March 29, 2017, 11:48:24 AM
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I have nothing to add to this, as it speaks well enough for itself:


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Tue Mar 28, 2017, 01:30 PM
Star Member Tobin S. (9,326 posts)

Little Miracles.


If not the spiritual type, maybe you can think of it in Jungian psychological terms as synchronicity.

I've been reading a lot of Hindu and Buddhist stuff, lately. A lot of Ram Dass stuff in particular, but other people as well. I decided to take up a mantra. I've found that I'm not good at long mantras such as a long phrase or a couple of sentences. Ram Dass says his guru simply used Ram which is a Hindu name for God. I think Ram Dass uses it as well, but I'm not sure about that. I decided to use it. It's supposed to bring you into the moment and open up your heart. I'm here to tell you it works...at least it works for me. Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram

I've had it going through my head the last four days.

I'm a trucker and I was rolling down I-70 the other day in eastern Ohio just riding and guiding and doing my mantra. I was looking at the people in the other cars and trucks as they passed. My truck only does 66 mph so I get passed a lot. I had this mantra going through my head and it was kind of like a song. I was tapping my feet and singing along in my head in 4/4 time really getting into it Ram Ram Ram Ram. I looked down in a passing car and there was a young woman looking up at me, smiling, and clapping her hands along to the beat that I was keeping as if she could hear the mantra song that was singing in my head.

Coincidence? Maybe...maybe not.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: CC27 on March 29, 2017, 11:52:52 AM
I am thinking he was high or had a little nip of booze. Wait a minute... he is driving a truck now? I thought he worked in the yard?
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: Duke Nukum on March 29, 2017, 11:57:15 AM
Occasionally, things just sync up. Like Dark Side of the Moon and Wizard of Oz.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on March 29, 2017, 12:22:50 PM
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Tue Mar 28, 2017, 01:30 PM
Star Member Tobin S. (9,326 posts)




 I'm here to tell you it works...at least it works for me. Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram

I've had it going through my head the last four days.

I'm a trucker and I was rolling down I-70 the other day in eastern Ohio just riding and guiding and doing my mantra.
The thought of this paste eater behind the wheel of a semi cruising down the highway muttering to himself scares the hell out of me.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: USA4ME on March 29, 2017, 12:23:18 PM
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Tobin S.

Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram

Sounds like the relationship between the plate, a fork, and the Tobe's mouth.

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Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on March 29, 2017, 12:54:41 PM
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Tobin S.

Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram Ram

Sounds like the relationship between the plate, a fork, and the Tobe's mouth.

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:lmao: ^5

Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: Happy Fun Ball on March 29, 2017, 01:11:23 PM
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za4BKMMdrXA[/youtube]
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: Carl on March 29, 2017, 01:57:06 PM
He should adopt "don`t go back for seconds" as his mantra.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: BamaMoose on March 29, 2017, 02:02:43 PM
He's bombing down the road in a semi, looking at the cars that are around him and chanting "Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram, Ram".  This isn't gonna end well.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: FiddyBeowulf on March 29, 2017, 02:03:04 PM
Officer: So Tobin, what were doing just before you hit the vehicle in front of you?
Tobin: Uh, I was saying my mantra...
Officer: And that was?
Tobin: ...ram, ram, ram, ram...
Office: Ok, why don't we just call a lawyer for you now and save a step.

Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: franksolich on March 29, 2017, 03:06:19 PM
A question, and then an observation.  The latter's for the Tobe alone, so nobody here needs to read it unless desperate for something to read.

So the Tobe is cruising down the highway, sitting way up there in the cab of a big semi-truck, like a bird on the top branch of a tree.  And not only that, but a bird perching there with a tall wall around it.

When out on the highway, I pass big semi-trucks all the time.

I have yet to pass one where I can actually see what the driver, way up there halfway to the sun, is doing inside his cab.

How'd the chick manage that?

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On the other thing, I've pointed this out to the Tobe before, but just like all the other primitives who ignore the advice and counsel of franksolich despite the considerable perils it poses, and the Tobe hasn't paid the least bit of attention.

Hinduism is an ancient and venerated religion, and obviously an effective one because like franksolich's religion, it's been around a long time.  Things that don't work don't last long, excepting of course governmental employees.

However, it's appropriate and truly useful only for those born and raised in its culture, its milieu, in this case south-central Asia and surrounding regions; they're the only people who can understand it, and hence benefit from it.

Someone of European derivation born and raised in bucolic Georgia is no more capable of understanding Hinduism than a Hottentot is.  We respect it, but we can't understand it.

There's been many primitives of European derivation who've been attracted to eastern religions--by the way, has anyone seen the bitter old Vermontese cali primitive lately?--but for wholly negative reasons.  They hate Christianity or Judaism, and since it's hip, cool, trendy, with it, to be a rebel, to be different, they flock to this stuff.

Which appears to be the Tobe's case.  For whatever reasons, he wishes to reject the love and care and faith of those who gave him life and raised him, and so he's turned to this, to find peace and serenity and wisdom.

The Tobe might insist that he tried the faith of his fathers, and it "didn't work."

It didn't work because he was being an ass about it; he didn't want it to work.

I suggest, based upon a lifetime of observation of people adopting things alien to their natures, that no matter how much the Tobe "rams" and "oh rams" and "oh oh rams," he's never going to find peace and serenity and wisdom from it.

The Tobe needs to stick with what sustained his own people through the ages; I suspect if he'd just go to a few camp meetings, a few revivals, and a good Baptist church every week--with an open and accepting mind--he'll get the peace and serenity and wisdom he seeks.

He ain't gonna get it no other way than that way, because that's what he is, a backwoods Georgia boy.

 
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: Carl on March 29, 2017, 06:01:12 PM
Most likely she caught a glimpse of tubby in his side mirror and her clapping was part of the fit of laughter that ensued.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: Tess Anderson on March 29, 2017, 06:33:42 PM
Eva has just fallen off the face of the earth but I think Tobe is actually a member of this church:

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/553964_10201682453893340_152789263_n.jpg?oh=f21faf456c172c33e313f8dd669d3b10&oe=596CB147)

and the wife is a very active member there, although it IS an Episcopalian church, not much worse than my former PCUSA church. Tubs actually renewed his wedding vows in their church a few years, which I am eternally grateful for for it's one of the few photos of Tob not wearing overalls.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: dutch508 on March 29, 2017, 07:09:30 PM
only able to go 66 mph and the person passing saw him?

He's not driving a semi. He's driving a cargo truck- like a delivery truck type of thing.

eh...

(http://www.ameriquestcorp.com/images/content/small-banner-used-truck-delivery.jpg)
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on March 29, 2017, 08:47:41 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j3adcbEwSM
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: SVPete on March 29, 2017, 09:38:03 PM
Eva has just fallen off the face of the earth but I think Tobe is actually a member of this church:

(https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/553964_10201682453893340_152789263_n.jpg?oh=f21faf456c172c33e313f8dd669d3b10&oe=596CB147)

and the wife is a very active member there, although it IS an Episcopalian church, not much worse than my former PCUSA church. Tubs actually renewed his wedding vows in their church a few years, which I am eternally grateful for for it's one of the few photos of Tob not wearing overalls.

Like the UMC and PCUSA, the Episcopalian Church has just about driven out people who actually believe the Bible - rather than treating it like a steam table at a buffet. ELCA isn't far behind, and the UCC is way out ahead. So I doubt the priest at that church has problems with Tobers' half-baked Hinduism.
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: 98ZJUSMC on March 30, 2017, 04:20:46 AM
Sounds like the relationship between the plate, a fork, and the Tobe's mouth.

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:rotf: :rotf:
Title: Re: Tubby Tobin's cheese continues its downward slide off of his cracker
Post by: FlaGator on March 30, 2017, 06:28:51 AM
I think he should change his mantra to "merge left".