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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Maid-Biting In Singapore

A lot of people in Singapore have live-in maids. It is an essential element of the local economy, providing employment for young women seeking an escape from poverty and the rural areas of South East Asia, the Philippines, etc. It seems there has been a trend lately toward maid-abuse that is so prevalent that there are regular reports on it in the news. Maids are beaten, they are locked in closets for days at a time, they are bitten... This is what I hear from my daughter, who has just moved... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, February 9, 2007

The Law of Attraction is the context...

I wrote this a while back, and things posted in the past day or two, particularly in Julia's blog about secrets, http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Quirkyalone1026/ brought it back to mind. Without the context of that law of metaphysics that says we attract to us what we think of, this one doesn't make so much sense. But with that understanding, I think it works. THE GHOST How often does a dream call you back out of your waking life? And yet-- you called-- I came: Here I am. What do you want... Sign in to see full entry.

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Defining Terms: Intelligence

Baskhar wrote a blog today, a lovely, lyrical piece on intelligence... http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Bhaskar.ing/ He got me thinking... Intellect alone is not intelligence, any more than analysis is understanding. Intellect is a tool, a process: intelligence is fundamental ability.The capacity to use intellect is intelligence. Intellectualizing is the ability to reduce reality to linear, rational, conscious terms. Intelligence is the capacity to be aware, and to know anything... to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Morality, more or less...

Just as in discussions about God and religion, any discussion about morality has to start by defining the terms. Morality is a universal concept, but cultural in its application, its interpretaton: it is a consensual matter, in any society, what is moral, what is good, what is bad, even what is evil. These are a few of my thoughts on the topic: Is there absolute morality? I think there are some universally agreed morals, but fewer than one might think. All mine relate to the non-infringement of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

More photos from the sky...

Mount Rainier, with Mt St Helens over its shoulder... sunset, somewhere over South Dakota Sign in to see full entry.

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Eastbound Flight, December photos

This is the Snake River, I think... Eastern Oregon and Washington River systems of Idaho and Wyoming...and a lake Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Creation--Part One

Okay, who started this...? Depends on who you ask... There are as many stories of Creation as there are human cultures. Many of these stories are linked historically, recognizably sharing original sources, so that several cultures actually share a single concept of Creation. And some cultures have more than one-- Tibet, for example, has various versions of the origins of the world and of Mankind, though we here in the relatively flat lands think of it as being a single culture. Most of us in the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Two boxes of food and some other stuff...

That's what she said, when my daughter called this morning, and asked when I would be up to get them. The movers were due by 9:30, to pack a very large houseful of what turned out to be thee TONS of furniture, kitchen gear, personal stuff and artwork. And those two boxes were indeed two boxes, but also, there was the stuff-- including a power station to keep the computers alive for 4 hours in a black-out, a power washer, a rake and shovel, a vacuum cleaner, humidifier, standing fan, a box of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 4, 2007

photos from the air: A mountain road for Taps

These photos are from an eastbound flight-- Seattle to Kansas City, on my way to Christmas with my daughter and granddaughter in Maryland. I had a seat on the south side of the plane, so the afternoon light is a bit harsh, compared with the previous shots taken from the north side of my westbound flight, that I posted earlier. These views are quite different, eh? Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm going to Singapore!

Yep-- sometime in March, I'm off to visit daughter and son-in-law in their new digs on the other side of the world! I still have to decide how long I want to stay, where I want to go while in the neighborhood, and whether to go east or west to get there. I hope I will be able to keep blogging from there... I will have to pack batteries and get more memory cards... I will miss my cats... Sign in to see full entry.

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I've been asking the Universe to explain itself to me since I was about 11 years old. I asked specifically how to reconcile God with Science. Now and then, I seem to tune in on an answer. All that I write here represents not Truth, but what I believe to be true.I have my reasons, and I like to believe, my reason. ///Everything of my own words and/or pictures that I post on Blogit is copyright by CLRedding 1972-present, all rights reserved.///

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