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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 3:56 pm
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(November 14, 2018 at 3:17 am)Godscreated Wrote: Dropped in to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, we all have good and bad in our lives through the year and I think for one day we all can take the time to consider the good and be thankful for those things and lay aside the bad things, so I say Happy Thanksgiving to all even the ones in other parts of the world who do not celebrate a day of thanks. Wishing each one of you well. Maybe I'll be back soon still need some time and space.
Your friend,
GC
Happy Thanksgiving to you, too.
(November 14, 2018 at 10:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 3:17 am)Godscreated Wrote: Dropped in to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, we all have good and bad in our lives through the year and I think for one day we all can take the time to consider the good and be thankful for those things and lay aside the bad things, so I say Happy Thanksgiving to all even the ones in other parts of the world who do not celebrate a day of thanks. Wishing each one of you well. Maybe I'll be back soon still need some time and space.
Your friend,
GC
To whom should I be thankful?
Boru
You can be thankful for without being thankful to. I am thankful for my friends and let them know it. And the food is damn good. 
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:04 pm
(November 14, 2018 at 3:56 pm)Dragonfly Wrote:
(November 14, 2018 at 10:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: To whom should I be thankful?
Boru
You can be thankful for without being thankful to.
Yeah, I really don't think you can. To be thankful implies gratitude or appreciation, and it's hard to see how to accomplish that without an object.
Boru
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm
(November 14, 2018 at 4:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 3:56 pm)Dragonfly Wrote:
You can be thankful for without being thankful to.
Yeah, I really don't think you can. To be thankful implies gratitude or appreciation, and it's hard to see how to accomplish that without an object.
Boru
Hmmm. I am grateful for and appreciative of my friends, and they're not objects.
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:15 pm
Back at you, GC.
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:21 pm
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(November 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm)Dragonfly Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 4:04 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Yeah, I really don't think you can. To be thankful implies gratitude or appreciation, and it's hard to see how to accomplish that without an object.
Boru
Hmmm. I am grateful for and appreciative of my friends, and they're not objects.
Your friends are non-corporeal? Are these imaginary friends? Everything physical is an object.
But that’s as may be. I was using ‘object’ in the grammatical sense. When you express thanks, you have to be thanking something.
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:25 pm
(November 14, 2018 at 4:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 4:06 pm)Dragonfly Wrote: Hmmm. I am grateful for and appreciative of my friends, and they're not objects.
Your friends are non-corporeal? Are these imaginary friends? Everything physical is an object.
But that’s as may be. I was using ‘object’ in the grammatical sense. When you express thanks, you have to be thanking something.
Boru
I'm thanking my friends.
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:28 pm
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(November 14, 2018 at 4:25 pm)Dragonfly Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 4:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Your friends are non-corporeal? Are these imaginary friends? Everything physical is an object.
But that’s as may be. I was using ‘object’ in the grammatical sense. When you express thanks, you have to be thanking something.
Boru
I'm thanking my friends.
But if you’re thanking your friends, you’re being thankful ‘to’ them, not ‘for’ them.
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:29 pm
(November 14, 2018 at 10:44 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 3:17 am)Godscreated Wrote: Dropped in to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving, we all have good and bad in our lives through the year and I think for one day we all can take the time to consider the good and be thankful for those things and lay aside the bad things, so I say Happy Thanksgiving to all even the ones in other parts of the world who do not celebrate a day of thanks. Wishing each one of you well. Maybe I'll be back soon still need some time and space.
Your friend,
GC
To whom should I be thankful?
Boru
Depends on what one is being thankful for?
For being alive, that would be one's mommy and daddy, I suppose.
Ultimately, that would Mother Nature. Mom's the best.
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RE: We all can be thankful II
November 14, 2018 at 4:30 pm
(November 14, 2018 at 4:28 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (November 14, 2018 at 4:25 pm)Dragonfly Wrote: I'm thanking my friends.
But if you’re thanking your friends, you’re being thankful ‘to’ them, not ‘for’ them.
Boru
Being thankful to them or for them makes no difference to me. We can make Turkey day whatever we want. Rather than having any religious connotations, I just enjoy the day with friends.
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