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    Default Do you know any old sayings, and there origins, meanings...

    For instance "three square meals" comes from the RN, having square plates of wood, with an edge called the fiddle, if your meat touched the fiddle you were "on the fiddle".......ect .....
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems such as those connected with reality... Existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language... It strikes me as peculiar that most concern themselves solely with language, the least of all philosophies...
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    what comes around goes around

    can someone explain the origins? i associate it with karma ..but it is not a western concept
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    Quote Originally Posted by bosnian View Post
    what comes around goes around

    can someone explain the origins? i associate it with karma ..but it is not a western concept
    I think it's something like this "what you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabout.....
    Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems such as those connected with reality... Existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind and language... It strikes me as peculiar that most concern themselves solely with language, the least of all philosophies...
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSWDjgyk8Aw

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