tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56640625144907357702012-01-30T12:28:39.060-08:00Essays and Editorials and My Opinion on EverythingEdward R Morrisonhttps://profiles.google.com/109706447518860549830noreply@blogger.comBlogger641100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5664062514490735770.post-35832990572173950092012-01-30T12:28:00.000-08:002012-01-30T12:28:39.090-08:00

People are not ready for the society we have. Somehow, we have built it on progressive and intelligent ideas when, to be honest, most people don't have all that much intelligence or foresight. While there are a lot of very foresightfull ideas in the United States Constitution and other democratic ideals about the world, one that they are all lacking is the vision to know that we are not ready.

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I was working at a concessions stand when someone concerned about eating healthy tried to buy something. It happens occasionally. Some poor soul doomed to fail in his goal. For there is nothing I sell that I would actually buy myself. And as the stellar salesman that I am, I often tell people this. Just trying to be helpful. There was one man who decided to get a {insert name here} Zero 

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January 27th, Gunnison Colorado. A place that is renown for its cold. And this is the first time it has snowed on top of snow. Not because it has been too cold, but because every small snowfall we have had has melted before anything else comes. It's a little scary. Not only because of what we could say about global warming (only to be refuted by someone saying, it's only one year. These things

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StudentsFirst will take umbrage with what I am about to say: Most of the time, I assume that people are generally equal. Some very smart people have the unfortunate fate of being smart in something that isn't respected. Such as drawing or music or soccer. These people are not called our geniuses. But the other day I was talking to a group of girls who were at least in 7th grade. Probably at

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Take a pen, or a tennis ball and toss it in the air at a friend. I have noticed that most women will flinch and cover their head or try to move out of the way. Men generally put their hands up to catch, even if they aren't very good at catching. Some people on both sides do it skillfully, most just flail. There are of course, exceptions: women who will try for the catch and men who will flinch

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One of the best ideas I have heard of in a long time is called "Time Banking". There are many places that people can go to get involved in Time Banking options that may (or may not) be active in their communities. There is the center: TimeBanks.org, and from there people can find local efforts. Time Banking is a lot like doing favors from friends, but making your pool of friends a little larger

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Ah, in the end I'm not all that different from very many people. Though, to admit, I have always tried to be a little. "Normal" people do not impress me in any positive ways. But, as being different for the sake of being different is just as pointless as being the same for the sake of being the same, I have to admit that I have a lot in common with the rest of the human race. Laziness, 

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Listening is a very important skill and it goes rather undervalued in our world. I am not sure why; perhaps it is because the more forceful you are with your own opinion, the more chance you have of convincing someone that you are right. And being forceful is the opposite of listening. I think there is a little ego that motivates it. I have been trying to find a way to get my ol' Alma Matter (

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Besides their awful carbon footprint (though it can be a carbon sink...), cement is great for things like Roller Blades, Bikes, Skateboards, Cars, and anything else with wheels. It makes travel easier, quick, smooth. That is it's use. It's not really good for feet, though. There is a reason that there is no animal evolved to locomote with wheels: this sort of surface didn't exist before us.

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In a world that worships the automobile (yet another contraption I regard as a corruption; a satanic trap), those who know me are forced to forego it. It really is a corrupted satanic trap, though. It is an up-front cost of between $1,000 and $100,000! And then, it traps you. It costs a monthly in-sewer-ants to even be allowed to use it (and with good reason: they are dangerous! If anything, I

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My post yesterday was pretty fatalistic. It is something of the reason I am an "environmentalist", but not the real reason. I keep hearing that there is no point. That, eventually, our moon will sling out of orbit and the earth will be pulled into the sun. That, eventually, the sun will supernova and the earth will disintegrate. Well yes. How foresightful. Eventually the entire universe might

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I am an optimist: I believe that when The Famine hits, the human race will have an epiphany. I have that argument with a lot of people. Most disagree with me. But I think we will have an epiphany for the good. The 'richest' people in the world might just be among the first to starve. For, though they can Pay their private militaries to go and steal food for them, they wont be able to do much

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There are a lot of "scientists" I have known with a vehement hatred of religion. Unaware that most of these individuals are actually very religious. For science can be followed as a religion. But how dare those Anti-Religion Science-Nuts say that the worst thing is Religion? (those that do) Sure it's got its crimes: crusades, terrorism, nationalism to some extent, and willful ignorance pretty

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The People for the American Way sent me an email recently: "After years of learning about the details of an American decision-making system centered on exploitation and extraction, MSNBC host Dylan Ratigan lost his temper on-air. Instead of just being angry, Dylan wrote GREEDY BASTARDS: How We Can Stop Corporate Communists, Banksters, and Other Vampires from Sucking America Dry. In the book,

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Since I obviously don't have the attention span, and I have too much perfection, and I can't decide which way to take them, I decided not to do full-argument essays. Instead, I'll do essay vignettes. Besides, according to some research (I was told... I don't know where it is, sadly), short arguments are more powerful. It makes sense: Who has the attention span to read an article in Time or

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A little while ago, I read yet another off hand comment about how lazy everyone nowadays is. Condemning the Occupy Wall Street movement as a bunch of worthless vagabonds who just want a "free lunch" and that they are waiting to see someone hold up a sign to say they wanted a new New Deal where jobs would be created so that those lazy homeless people could work 10 hours of back-breaking labour a

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Permaculture has a great list of ideals that apply in just about anything that can be done. It has a lot in common with a gross of other movements both recent and historical. One thing I find in common with all of them is an attention to systems. We like to use the term "attention to detail" as some sort of buzzword for a good, intelligent, "critically thinking" person. "Critically Thinking" is

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Steve King (a representative from Iowa) thinks that if we cover birth control and allow our birth rate fall below our replacement rate (death rate) then we are a "dying civilization". Perhaps Steve has never heard of a diet. Right now we are not anywhere near risk of being a "dying civilization". The population of humans on earth is about 70,000 times too many people (population we should have:

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Hello, my friends. Recently I began volunteering for the Courage Campaign out of California. What they want right now (for the next two weeks, especially) is for people from across the country to share their stories about dealing with homosexuality in our country. What challenges there are and if there is any backlash for supporting any people regardless of their sexuality. Some of you may

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There are times when the problems in the world seem over whelming, that everything is going downhill. But then there are times when we have to realize that ignorant bigotry is disappearing. It is a slow and unsteady process marked at times by the passing of a generation out of our world, but it is happening, at least in some places. Where I live, one hardly experiences it. The laws in Colorado

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I have been spending some time lately in Denver's Alliance Center as I am pretty much bent upon doing something worthwhile with my life. And while the Center is not the be all and end all of humanitarian missions in Colorado (and, in fact, houses some groups I am pretty unhappy with; by "some" I mean "one" and they are the real subject of this angry "rant" - read "argument") it is a good place to

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Music and visuals are as important as each other. Plus it is a great double alliteration. Doesn't that just sound great? Walt Disney was a Dancer!

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Tar sands is awful. Head-twitching, wide-eyed, seizure-inducing awful. Please sign against it. I just sent a message calling on the State Department to protect our land from tar sands oil, the dirtiest fuel in the world. You should join me! Check it out: To take action on this issue, click on the link below: http://action.sierraclub.org/site/Advocacy?s_oo=bDnrA5-BHZ6EmkewZnP_dw..&id=6265 If

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Holy Fucking God the tar sands suck. It puts baby seal clubbing to shame. What sort of amoral blinded-by-profit worshiper-of-oil follower-of-the-"free-Market" retard could ever believe that this is a good idea? Oh, but it gives us a few more years of oil, so it's all worth it. If we don't have oil, then we'll live as cave men! Oh! I just couldn't do that. Humans deserve extinction. Let us

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How much influence do you have? On the world! Well, I suppose that it is important to establish what that means in the first place since everyone seems to have a different idea of what 'the world' really is. Mine is probably very different from the normal. What I would assume would be 'normal' is to define "the world" something along the lines of 'what people do. the memes and temes and jemes

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My most prolific month of posting onto this 'blog' my random thoughts correlates to my least prolific on reviews. I haven't been doing any of those lately... Not really for the last three months. But already, this early into April, I have two more posts than I have ever done before. A lot of them are somewhat stupid. So they don't really count to my prolific publication of worthy thoughts (will

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Sometimes, I think it would have been better to have just let the government shut down. Right now, there is a rather startling number of people in this country that don't like/don't trust/downright hate our government while somehow loving the country at the same time. It's amusing to say the least. Perhaps I am an optimist, but I think that if the government shut down we would realize fairly

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In 2015 or so the computer of choice for graphic professionals, I predict, will be the iPad Pro. Or something like it. It'll have stats like Wacom Cintiq: 2048 levels of sensitivity, 60 degree pen tilting, hyper-accurate, display under your pen, all of that. But under that will be your computer. All in one. And it'll be between $1500 and $3500 by that time and people who are really into graphic

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In our culture, it is impossible to live sustainably. Which makes everything sound hopeless. But that is just right now; it is not impossible to make our society sustainable, in the future, if we keep the fight up. The more individuals and organizations who are interested in living sustainably, the easier and more possible it will be in the future. My current sustainability goals, to make my

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I just spent an hour answering all the calls for petition signs and calls to congress that come to me in my email. That's a lot of petitions. It tells me that there are definitely some problems in our world today. Yesterday, I was talking to someone about that; it seems to come up in my conversations a lot. His response was, "Whatever. As long as I am electricity and access to all the porn I

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To combat the overwhelming pessimism of Signs of a Decaying or Decayed Culture, I have decided to post this list of good signs for your culture. In honesty, it is a reaction to the former list, which is another sign, I think. I wish this to be as culturally universal as possible, but since that is impossible, it is not. Some items are not universal, though many I believe are. The list is in no

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Despite the overwhelming pessimism of such a thing, I have decided to post this list of signs that the society you are living in is rotten, dying, or simply unhealthy. I wish it to be as culturally universal as possible, but since that is impossible, it is not. Some items are not universal, though many I believe are. A companion to this list is Signs that you are in a Healthy and Vibrant Culture

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I'm a little depressed. Landfills can be interesting places. To see where all the crap goes from whatever city you liver in. It is always remarkable. The amount of trash we can generate is amazing and disgusting. The callousness with which people throw stuff away is even more so. Obviously, more people need to visit their local trash hole. Besides that I am completely against even having

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In my mind, I am the most sustainable person on the planet. I think that human life isn't really all that special, we are just one part of the world and we have taken rather more than our fair share of it. I am one of those people who could be told, "well why don't you just kill yourself and disburden the world!" Well, yes, I suppose that would be one effect of suicide; but that sort of response

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I applied to get a CR-48 from Google the other day and I really hope I get one. Besides the obvious benefits of a free computers (especially when the one you own is 10 years old and so slow on the internet it can't run Firefox or Chrome browsers - it does well off line, but for any online work, I have to use a school computer) I really like the idea of having a computer that is at once unbranded

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    The most amazing thing about Sarah Palin is that anybody listens to her. And not just because of the inane and senseless babble that pours unheeded from her mouth, but at how badly this babble is actually poured. I'm not going to talk about the subject of her babble, but just its delivery: she is a worse actor than she is a thinker. The fact that there is a person on our planet that

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Modern Office Furniture. It looks something like this: Alessi - Juicy Salif Citrus-Squeezer by Philippe Starck, 1990 And Costs something like this:$96.00. I can help. I'm supposed to get a promotional code that can get you $25 off. So this wonderful juicer'll be only $71. (But I can only give it to one winner... I'm not sure how to chose a winner, but I suppose I could just say that I'll email

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I am a hopeless idealist. In my little head, I inhabit a world filled with considerate people who work and ply their trade because it is needed (or at least wanted) by their neighbors, not for money. So there is none. The god of this world doesn't even exist. But of course, I can't actually live there any more than I could travel to Middle Earth, which would be just as awesome, but for a very

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Today at work, we had a problem. I work at a nursing home serving people food. We try to keep track of how much everyone eats ('try' being used about as loosely as possible. We actually just inconvenience ourselves with utterly useless data collection. The only thing it really tells us is if someone was in the dining room that day.) using a little hand-held touch screen device. That runs

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You are right. "An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke." But sometimes it is nice to laugh at your own jokes. Sometimes, if you don't laugh, no one will. Sometimes, I like to just entertain myself. And I bloody like how they look!

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Once, about five years ago, I had an "iRiver" sorta like an iPod classic, but not quite so snazzy (it had a better battery, though, and could be used as a generic drive to store anything you wanted). It was cool for a little while, then it fell off the counter. And that was the end of that. Yesterday, I had an external hard drive. I tried to take as good of care of the the thing as I could: it

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Microsoft and Windows are the most pathetic excuses for a product ever created by anybody or anything. They suck in every way that something can suck. I get more processing capability out of a 1919 typewriter missing half its keys. What the fuck? Why do people still spend money on this whole-hearted piece of crap? It's like some sadistic experiment? What will people put up with? Well, let's

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Quaker service Sunday: 24:05 We entreat all who profess themselves members of our Society to be faithful to that ancient testimony, borne by us ever since we were a people, against bearing arms and fighting, that by a conduct agreeable to our profession we may demonstrate ourselves to be real followers of the Messiah, the peaceable Saviour, of the increase of whose government and peace there

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            Western State College has gotten in a frenzy. Dropping enrollment has caused the administration to fear for the future of our institution. The facilities are there, they say. We could have, and have had, nearly double the number of students we currently have. Why aren't they here anymore? What could be done to get them to come back? We must encourage them to come back!             In

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I was walking to church in Bismarck at 8:00 in the morning today. It's a nice short walk, a good way to wake up. As I was cresting a hill, I heard a huge roar coming from the south. At first, I didn't know what it could be. The fantasist in me thought, maybe the USSR is finally bombing us. I knew that wasn't the case, so I tried to think about it more rationally. Whatever it was, it was a huge

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Quaker and Unitarian worship is somewhat similar. Both are pretty open minded and thoughtful, but I think I like the Quaker's style of worship more. Usually. I cannot say that every Quaker group works like this, but in Bismarck it is a discussion. Followed by "Quiet Time". Rather than having some high and mighty someone preach down to the masses, everyone takes part in discussion. It is

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I recently went to church (United Church of Christ) and had some fun. In some ways, this should go in my critic blog, but... That just seems... not its place. It's also something of an essay. The sermon was pretty good with a lot of good ideas and morals espoused, but it got me thinking on a lot of things. One was my previous post, but there were some other less developed thoughts that went

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I am not a particularly religious person myself, though I see the need and the use of it for many, many, many people. Perhaps nearly every, or even absolutely every, person. Yet despite my own lack of religion, I ain't got no quarrel with God. I don't see how war could be "evidence that God does not exist" because their is evil in the world, nor do I see how famine could be evidence of the same

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There has been some small conflict between a group calling themselves "Protect Marriage" and a group dubbed the "Courage Campaign". They hate each other. "Protect Marriage" is focused on keeping the word "marriage" defined as a sexual-legal relationship between a man and a woman exclusively. Whereas the "Courage Campaign" finds this to be derogatory against homosexuals. So they bicker and

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A popular theory of economics is that, in any transaction, both parties gain. Everyone benefits! Some people take this to mean that everyone is forever becoming better off, and everyone always will be; and this is why economies need to forever grow. Unfortunately, this equation is missing a few little variables. Like time. Nothing may last forever, but everything else doesn't so everyone is

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Hello. My name is Ed and I am a "hippy". Or something of one. I am about to alienate some of my fellow idealists. I apologize in advance. I'm sorry. Many idealists, by their very nature, aren't very practical. This should not be an excuse for some of the gibber I have heard come out of my corner and I'm not set out to defend some of the remarks my friends have made (you know what they are). Some

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Satire. It is a great form of comedy. From the Latin "satura" which literally meant 'full dish', satire means to ridicule a vice or a folly by being an extreme example. Or "saturated" example. It can be really funny, in a somewhat horrible and mean-spirited way. Satire can be difficult to understand. Not just for stupid people, but for anyone. If you think you understand satire and are never

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Growth is Good. That is what we are told by our greatest economists. If you are not growing, then obviously you are shrinking and who wants that? Bigger is better. ...Unless you are a cell phone or an iPod... Or pretty much anything made of silicone and copper. This mentality, coupled by the vast acreage of land in the Americas, has lead us to build, copiously, out. Even Gunnison has bought into

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There are some crazy people who think "Intelligent Design" and Religion should be taught in public school. To which I say: Okay. Good idea, actually. Because whether you are an Atheist, or a Deist (of whatever variety), or believe in Science! you must realize that religion is a fact of life. It exists in the minds of most people in one way or another. There are a million varieties of it. It is

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Uncle Dave chewed into his leg with a logging-grade chain-saw just above the knee. As legs have dramatically less resilience than the average tree, this usually results in an artificial leg. But Dave was very experienced with chain-saws and, above all, lucky, fortunate, blessed, charmed, and Lucky. Instead of dismantling himself, he only cut a few centimeters into his quadricep. Pulling the

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Living with people is hard. People can be very needy creatures and hard to satisfy. It can be a scary thought. So many people don't even want to deal with it; they don't even want to try; it's just not worth it. Your stuff can get broken and stolen, you can be kept up all night or woken up early in the morning, you can grow to hate each other and begin slashing each others tires and stalking the

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I made some headway on this topic since my "Procrastination Piece 1" piece... Talking with my cousin gives good philosophy sometimes, though most of this was through my own conflicting motivations.That's the theory, "Conflicting Motivations". Perhaps one of the reasons we don't end up doing a lot, procrastinating on things we like is we have conflicting motivations. Each motivation has something

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I like to get a good splattering of deep (or deep seeming, which is acommon thing to do in order to be percevied as intellegent and wise withoutactually having to be so) 'thoughts' (advertized as 'Buddist Thought of theDay') in my little 'Reader Box' so that I can Procrastinate better (see previouspost) and a little while ago I got the following series of Thoughts:"We imagine that waking-life is

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I think I may be reaching the end of my endurance for the day. I've only written a page on my Historical Geology paper. I need to try and convince my professor that I know more about the geology of Gunnison Colorado than I really do. I don't think I'm going to do a good job. I have been putting it off for about a month now and am currently doing so on the micro level. I do a little, read

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I just read a comic (Zits) that said: "A good reputation is hard to overcome." Which is false. It is easy to destroy a good reputation in our society, all you have to do is make a mistake. That's all. Reputation gone. What is difficult, if not impossible without relocation, is to repair you reputation after said mistake.Least, that's how it seems to me most of the time.

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I recently noted that I seem to like everything that I'm not. I like qualities in people that are really the opposite of what I am. And I don't mean the things I can help, to a certain point. I mean the things that I don't know how to change; are inate in what type of personality I am. I think that a great ability the human psyche can have is to devote itself in love and caring for others. To

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They are so fuckin' broken! Graphics! Violence! Gore! YesCute! Ahhh! Get away from me!What are you, afraid of being called a fag? Whatever you are, you goddamned paranoid.What do graphics even matter? Everywhere I go, the people are saying: "The Graphics are awesome!" "Those graphics suck." "It has interesting graphics." "I don't like the graphics." "I really like the graphics."That's it. Not a

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Before I begin this thought, let me just say that I have a very high respect for eastern Taoist and Buddahist wisdom. I think many people can benifit from it.Having said that, I cam across this quote: "Turn your mind away from things which are not permanent." It was attributed to Buddah.In a way, this can be a very good thing to do. In a way. Sort of like "In the course of a lifetime, what does

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Joining in with the crowd is something I have a particular aversion to. I do not have 'myspace' and don't intend to. But I have been intregued by this 'blogging' thing and I do like to write, so I figured "Why not". I did misplace my real journal in California. Besides, I'd like others to see my writing. I want publication. And this may turn out to be a good way to get feed back on my thoughts.

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