Comments for Laugh everyday like it’s your last at http://www.samoalivenews.com , comment 0 to 18 out of 18 comments http://www.samoalivenews.com Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:30:32 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2300 I always said that you were too serious !!! Enjoy life. Dare to live ! Vivere! - JS Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:08:40 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2209 GC, you make me laugh! ...btw, fyi, Sifa is wysiwyg ... but I’ll stop before further erosion on your touted intelligence becomes more and more apparent ....’n fact, so eroded that one will need to borrow your huge magnifying glass to see it.....LOL! - Sifa Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:55:47 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2207 ...and why NOT read between the lines? :) It's quite boring not to.......Speaking of reading between the lines, the Sitafune metaphor exonerates not only the writer/editor (Ms. Jackson), but also everyone else including ...meself!..... ...of course we should laugh every day,...can't seem to avoid laughter especially when the most pervasive online emoticons - LOL! LMAO! ROTFL! ROTFLMAO, FOCL, etc., - endorse that very attitude and disposition......Hahahahaaaaa!..heheheee....see? ...byyeeeeee! - Sifa Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:45:54 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2204 Sifa, I think you should stop, it is getting embarrassing to anyone who can see past your polysyllabic facade. I mean, how did you identify a schism when all i asked you was a simple question? A question you made a meal of by saying laughing at your funeral is probable theoretically[1], but impossible, practically? heh I mean really, stop playing the psychoanalysis doctor on the interwebs. You may be deluded in thinking that your categorization of me as an idealist, my motives with argumentation and a piercing insight into all dying people's emotions holds some water, but its high noon and this nitpicker has a huge magnifying glass on it. ;D 1.JM's theory on ghosts. Theory debunked but give the guy a break! - GC Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:01:47 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2194 Why read in-between the lines??? I'm pretty sure the writer's intention has been miscontrued yet again. Pule lava Sitafune i le La o lona Va'a...JUST LAUGH EVERYDAY!!!!!!!!!!! :P - My 2 Cents Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:21:19 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2192 OR, it could also mean one’s “last day laughing” - not necessarily the same as last day alive, or dead...a? lol! ... I guess one person who laughed on his last day was Saddam Hussein ....hehee ....so GC, we are talking about normal people, abnormal ones don't count. - Sifa Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:59:19 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2191 GC: First of all, it’s obvious that you’re arguing just for argument’s sake. Reality, despite the seeming sweeping nature of my argument, as you insisted, is on my side. You know exactly what I meant which, essentially, was to point out an irony. By irony, I meant an “incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs”. I did not equivocate, I simply pointed out, again, an incongruity - not an ambiguity which underlies an equivocation. Secondly, your idealistic minuscule and nano minority who will be laughing on their last day was actually considered, included, forecasted and hypothesized in my interjection and conditional “if at all [possible]”. Hence my “sweeping statement”, as you charged, was not an attempt to assert an absolute or an omniscient claim, but an irony. Your feeble accusation of my seeming failure in an all-inclusive perspicacious supposition, therefore, reeks of a superficial and futile effort of an unsophisticated student. Manuia le aso - Sifa Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:54:02 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2190 JM, Stop pondering on pointless semantics and try to think your positions through... though going with your track record, that is a very tough ask. Exhibit A: "Last day dead". Dont you mean first day dead? I mean, do you get undead the next day for it to be your last? Blah, wading through your walls of texts is like trying to find meaning on the ceiling patterns. Faced with death on that fateful day, a realization will dawn upon yourself of the futility of your e-efforts against me, perhaps you would cry, be mad at the world, go on a killing spree... anything but contentment or a hearty laugh looking back at a life well lived (on the tip of my verbal jackboot). Find Zen on that day my friend. Russel Crowe said it best in Gladiator: Death smiles upon us all, all a man can do is smile back. Strength and honor you pansies. :) - GC Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:34:42 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2187 To be fair to Sifa, the saying: "laugh like it is your last day" doesn't specifically say whether it is your last day alive or your last day dead. GC assumes it means 'last day alive', Sifa thinks it means 'last day dead'. I would ask da teacher for a clarification. I also have a further problem - if you knew you were about to die and that it was your last day, would you necessarily want to be laughing? ...Maybe this is a question for happy hour on Friday evening. ;D - JM Sun, 06 Jul 2008 18:37:19 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2160 Sifa, nice wiggle. I think we both know what the good editor meant with laughing like it's your last day, you on the other hand chimed in with the verbosity of a clueless connoisseur and committed the fallacy of equivocation. clue: You can't laugh if you're dead. You can laugh on your last day alive, and thats the point of this article, but once you clock out... do you get it? its a given, goes without saying... captain obvious has set up residence. PS: no more sweeping statements, if you haven't met everyone who was alive before they died on that day, don't presume to have an omniscient insight into their state of mind. ;D - GC Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:08:28 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2158 GC: You do have a point, albeit a weak one. The difference between our viewpoints on the issue is that I am more of a pragmatist; and you, seemingly, are an idealist. But if I may use a punctilious and nitpicking approach (similar to that used in your response) to rebut, hence qualify my statement, I can effectively argue that the last day for a person, at least among the Samoans, is the day of the funeral (re: “toe aso” and “toe sauniga”). Therefore, with that reference in mind, NO ONE laughs on his/her “last day”. Faafetai - Sifa Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:57:34 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2151 The irony in your title is that nobody laughs, if at all, on his/her last day! Wow, you've met everybody on their last day to qualify that statement? - GC Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:33:03 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2147 hehehehe!!! leai o si taupou Savaii (editor) a foi o lo o taumafai e la'u mai ni na i faamalosiaga e faafiafia ai tatou, a mea alii na o polopelemi lava i aso uma e kalagoa ai Samoa lakou!!! malo Ms Jackson, I like the "reminder"..e lelei le fai ma faaalu nisi minute e ata ai ma le soona stress faavalevalea fua. Stress is a result of accidents which can be avoided. So the better we plan, the less stress. Otherwise remember to laugh a ea??? - sole Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:32:26 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2144 Good one Sifa. Just what this article needs... a REALITY check. - rockcimus Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:55:56 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2139 Ms. Jackson: The irony in your title is that nobody laughs, if at all, on his/her last day! The metaphor is probable theoretically, but impossible, practically. I understand the concept as also expressed in Tim McCraw’s hit song “Live Like You Were Dying” though I laughably (pun intended) disagree. I somehow agree more with Tim than Pat - and you. On Ambassador Shi’s sense of calmness and kind face, sheez, do not be taken in by appearances. Looks can be deceiving; appearance is one thing, reality can be quite another, especially if the person is a member of a political establishment. After all, Ms. Jackson, ambassadors are supposed to display gestures and expressions of goodwill and friendliness. They are “commanded” to smile a lot. But I’ll take your opinion (vs. fact) of Shi with a grain of masima from Chan Mow’s store. ‘Aua le seetia i le malu o le tai taeao. Hahaa! As long as we (Samoans) keep siding with mainland China vs. Taiwan, we will get more aid from Shi’s govt. Keep up the good work. Tai tien! - Sifa Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:58:53 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2136 It seems this man knows the sign of a good life. He is stern, yet not forceful. Kind, yet not condecending Are these the traits of good men? I think so-- Thank You Honorable Ambassador Shi. One can learn a lot from a man of peace. Wise Decision, very wise - Tue, 01 Jul 2008 04:20:10 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2133 Faiga a le keige Savaii...MALO Sis.... As I always tell my friends in Fiji who came for the SPG...if you haven't been to Savaii then you haven't been to Samoa..... God bless Samoa and our older brother China - Douglas Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:13:41 +0100 http://www.samoalivenews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1303&Itemid=59#pc_2124 Good one Cherelle. Life in the islands should be summed up just like you said . And we thank the Chinese for helping us do just that. Have a great day people !! - Tifa O Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:05:16 +0100