[Buddha-l] Time to call it a day?

Lidewij Niezink lidewij at gmail.com
Sun May 16 12:47:02 MDT 2010


I agree with Paul Watzlawick (and thus not with herr Freud) that the
'why'-question is a useless waste of time. Could it be that the
'why'-question is of the same mental chewing gum as the need to label?

cheers,
Lidewij



On 16 May 2010 20:35, Erik Hoogcarspel <jehms at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Op 16-5-2010 18:15, JKirkpatrick schreef:
>> "Time to call it a day" is idiomatic speech for ending
>> something.....draws from an old pop song from the 30s (?)--
>> (Gary),  and an older idiom (Richard). So whatever "it" is or was
>> it is not being "called day".
>>
> Thanks Joanna, for clearing that up. To be sure I was well aware of
> this, but I cannot resist from time to time to stretch the philologicals
> especially when the subject is calling names and labels and stuff.
>
> Erik
>  also called 洪恩锐
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