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To: LLCF who wrote (58)	4/15/2012 2:00:47 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 252

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful post. A few years ago I passed a milestone my company felt was worthy of a hall of fame celebration. My immediate boss wanted me to accept it, but I turned it and him down. He kept bugging me, as awards were important to him and I kept turning it down. Then a while later the really big boss of the whole state phoned me and I turned it down again. And I told him and this is the god's truth: "I said: "Plato would not approve of it". I told him, I am just here to make a living. Nothing else. He was quite upset at first, but years later at a dinner I had a chance to speak with him personally and I explained it had to do with my philosophy of life and he felt better and doesn't think me as crazy anymore. But I never accepted that award, and have told the company I work for not to issue any awards to me and have thrown all the other ones away I got earlier in my career. No one else seems to understand what I am doing." <<The crust of real science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dkv0KCR3Yiw&feature=relmfu DAK