What Does The Cue-Ball Represent?
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Where in the hell is mcgonagle? He was supposed to show up today and tell us the answer to this most vexing of questions.
Which I so eloqently responded to, I might add. :smile:
Which I so eloqently responded to, I might add. :smile:
mediocrity, brilliance, mayhem, obedience, effing cueball, sweet whitey.
Best,
Brian kc
Best,
Brian kc
My answer was good, there are two types of energy kinetic and potential. So I answered the question like a half assed physicist.
I could answer it like a billiard retailer it's inventory that I want to sell as fast as possible.
I could ansesere it like Shane Von Boning "Huh?, what did you say"- just teasining buddy! :smile: don't get mad.
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Fatboy
It can be a addictive drug for life long players. It can be company on a lonely day/night. A weapon in a bar fight. Etc it's no one particular thing, it falls under the umbrella of many contexts, where someone is at in their life, sleeping in the car or a nice room since it's a gambling decivce, and it's out come determines who gets the $$$ in some cases.
And that can change in a instant, I have scratched hill/hill and in a instant the rock went from being important to being a disaster-something I didn't want to see for a month. So the rock is a fluid object meaning it's value or importance can change in a instant. It can take a lifetime to gain any sort of control of it. It's easier for the gifted, impossible for others.
It's a lot of things to a lot of people at any given time. To some it's just a round white sphere and nothing more......
And that can change in a instant, I have scratched hill/hill and in a instant the rock went from being important to being a disaster-something I didn't want to see for a month. So the rock is a fluid object meaning it's value or importance can change in a instant. It can take a lifetime to gain any sort of control of it. It's easier for the gifted, impossible for others.
It's a lot of things to a lot of people at any given time. To some it's just a round white sphere and nothing more......
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Sorry Folks for taking so long to get back to my original post in this thread. Family matters, it is Father's Day.
It's refreshing to see this thread received 613 views in a little over a day. It's about par for the course that it only got thirty responses. That's ok. It's better than no responses at all.
As expected I didn't get the same answers from everyone. If I did that may have been scary.
The cue-ball represents different things to different people. Tramp Steamer looks at it as a way of expressing, "Mans search for perfection." He presented an awful good case for the way he sees it. Nice Job.
Grinz, had a bunch of different observations that would be hard to argue with. Another good Job.
Dabarbr chose to think outside the box his cue-ball is a white cop that picks on colored balls. If that's the way you want to view it, that's ok.
Oldzilla also went outside, his cue-ball is a vehicle. That's ok also. The cue-ball can be anything you want it to be.
Fatboy chose to look at it from his own view point. He got involved in the Physics of the cue-ball.
Jay Helfert talked about the energy connection between you and the cue-ball.
Randyg called it the mirror of your stroke.
underclocked made reference to a woman symbolizing his cue-ball. I'm glad I never ran across this woman.
Nostroke called it the result of our efforts, good or bad.
Paksat called it an attitude.
2 fast 4 fleas referred to it as a learning progression for the game.
Lalouie called it the messenger of all you know about the game.
There's no question all of these things can be your own personal thoughts about the cue-ball. You just said they were in so many words. What the cue-ball represents is certainly in the eyes of the beholder.
Here's what I think the cue-ball represents.
It's an extension of me. I like to say it's my brain running around the table.
If I'm playing and the cue-ball is doing the things I envisioned it doing before I hit the shot, I know my body and mind are working the way I want them to because the cue-ball gives me the results of my efforts after every shot.
If I'm playing poorly I know it's my own doing. As Randyg mentioned, Whitey, doesn't lie."
It's the sixth sense every great player has when they are playing their best.
That's all I got. I hope your not disappointed.
It's refreshing to see this thread received 613 views in a little over a day. It's about par for the course that it only got thirty responses. That's ok. It's better than no responses at all.
As expected I didn't get the same answers from everyone. If I did that may have been scary.
The cue-ball represents different things to different people. Tramp Steamer looks at it as a way of expressing, "Mans search for perfection." He presented an awful good case for the way he sees it. Nice Job.
Grinz, had a bunch of different observations that would be hard to argue with. Another good Job.
Dabarbr chose to think outside the box his cue-ball is a white cop that picks on colored balls. If that's the way you want to view it, that's ok.
Oldzilla also went outside, his cue-ball is a vehicle. That's ok also. The cue-ball can be anything you want it to be.
Fatboy chose to look at it from his own view point. He got involved in the Physics of the cue-ball.
Jay Helfert talked about the energy connection between you and the cue-ball.
Randyg called it the mirror of your stroke.
underclocked made reference to a woman symbolizing his cue-ball. I'm glad I never ran across this woman.
Nostroke called it the result of our efforts, good or bad.
Paksat called it an attitude.
2 fast 4 fleas referred to it as a learning progression for the game.
Lalouie called it the messenger of all you know about the game.
There's no question all of these things can be your own personal thoughts about the cue-ball. You just said they were in so many words. What the cue-ball represents is certainly in the eyes of the beholder.
Here's what I think the cue-ball represents.
It's an extension of me. I like to say it's my brain running around the table.
If I'm playing and the cue-ball is doing the things I envisioned it doing before I hit the shot, I know my body and mind are working the way I want them to because the cue-ball gives me the results of my efforts after every shot.
If I'm playing poorly I know it's my own doing. As Randyg mentioned, Whitey, doesn't lie."
It's the sixth sense every great player has when they are playing their best.
That's all I got. I hope your not disappointed.
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The cue ball as it moves around the table is the translation of your physical and mental will from your being to an inert object.
The cue ball also represents the single force able to change the world around.
The color of the cue ball represents the complement of all others in the world.
I refer to cue ball's world being the table, other balls, pockets, etc.
The cue ball also represents the single force able to change the world around.
The color of the cue ball represents the complement of all others in the world.
I refer to cue ball's world being the table, other balls, pockets, etc.
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The cue ball still gets manipulated by a stick and is helpless against gravity.
Thanks, Tom. :smile:
A few more thoughts on the subject.
The cueball is like Kojak. The rack is like the mob.
Kojak breaks the mob wide open, see, then systematically puts each one in the hole where they are never seen again until an unscrupulous lawyer bails them out and reracks.
Shit, oh dear, I've gotta quit drinking in the afternoon.
A few more thoughts on the subject.
The cueball is like Kojak. The rack is like the mob.
Kojak breaks the mob wide open, see, then systematically puts each one in the hole where they are never seen again until an unscrupulous lawyer bails them out and reracks.
Shit, oh dear, I've gotta quit drinking in the afternoon.
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Ehhh, not quite what I mean, not quite so linear. Let me slightly alter my phrasing from this "The cueball is the messenger of all that you know(mental, physical, and metaphysical) in the game of billiards. " to this "The cueball is the messenger of all that you know(mental, physical, and METAPHYSICAL),,,,,, in the game of billiards."
That is, all that you know, all that is you(mental, physical, and METAPHYSICAL), that every aspect of your being, which includes knowledge of the game and also knowledge of yourself and also a kind of Zen synergy. It's my half-*ssed attempt to explain the inexplicable of how things converge to a serendipitous moment in sport.
Hell, man. I don't even know what I mean but I know it's there.
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Lady goes to a shrink who sprinkles ink on a page, folds it, opens it and asks her what she sees.
“I see a man and a woman and they are taking their clothes off,” the woman says.
He does it again and asks her to reply.
“Same woman, same man, they have their clothes off and they are walking into her bedroom,“ she says.
He does it a third time and she looks alarmed, stops him. “Why are you doing this,” she asks.
The shrink says, “I make these pictures and you project your own needs onto them. This tells me about you.”
The lady says, “That is stupid, you are the one drawing dirty pictures.”
“I see a man and a woman and they are taking their clothes off,” the woman says.
He does it again and asks her to reply.
“Same woman, same man, they have their clothes off and they are walking into her bedroom,“ she says.
He does it a third time and she looks alarmed, stops him. “Why are you doing this,” she asks.
The shrink says, “I make these pictures and you project your own needs onto them. This tells me about you.”
The lady says, “That is stupid, you are the one drawing dirty pictures.”
Good point, Joe.
Listen folks. When you think of life as being a half-filled glass of water, just remember that the glass was probably too small in the first place. :wink:
To me, the cue ball represents the 'beginning'. The 'beginning' of my long journey of learning what I can about pocket billiards.
Every time I strike the cue ball, I take another step in my journey.
Figuratively speaking of course.
Every time I strike the cue ball, I take another step in my journey.
Figuratively speaking of course.