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Friday, September 29, 2017

The problem of balance

There is a human tendancy to believe that what we see is what is, a set of unconsidered assumptions that things are just what we see, that change is not an essential part of what we see. We look at things, we believe, and don't realize we are looking at process. So, when process asserts itself, we think there's a problem. And so there is, and it is our problem for we have built and planned and designed around things staying the same. We also have tended to measure time around our own lives and... Sign in to see full entry.

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There is a human tendancy to believe that what we see is what is, a set of unconsidered assumptions that things are just what we see, that change is not an essential part of what we see. We look at things, we believe, and don't realize we are looking at process. So, when process asserts itself, we think there's a problem. And so there is, and it is our problem for we have built and planned and designed around things staying the same. We also have tended to measure time around our own lives and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 27, 2017

labels and choices

We run into problems when our prrsonal labels become more important than who and what we are ourselves. Pacifist, just like Democrat or Republican or any other such label should not define an actual person. When doctrine becomes dogma, we surrender our abitlity to make our own choices. When such identifiers are held as absolute regardless of context, it is just another form of mania in which all things are forced through a particular set of perceptual filters: what simply doesn't fit through... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 25, 2017

Here is a mystery

...to ponder over a glass of wine. Friends of ours here just got several deliveries, 5 boxes of wine in each delivery, unexpected and unordered. Seems someone used a stolen credit card to order $500 worth of wine and had it sent to this address where they lived in 2014. I am guessing they assumed the residents would be at work all day, and they could intercept the deliveries. Our friends called and informed the company that this wine had not been ordered, and did they want our friends to send it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, August 1, 2017

It used to be illegal...

...to spit in public. That was back when tuberculosis was incurable. But now it is a Manly Thing To Do, apparently. I have never seen a gentleman spit in public. They just don't. They know better than to inflict their precious bodily fluids on the world around them. The men I have seen spit in public are at the least, inconsiderate and personally, I find their gob on the sidewalk or wherever they leave it, disgusting. It is right up there with dropping garbage on the street. But a notch higher... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Silence...

Those who have read me here over some time are aware of my experience with CPTSD, and I have also written about how I hear silence--that it means someone is angry with me or disapproving or simply indifferent. Until recently, I never connected the two issues, but it turns out, they are, in fact, connected. This is also connected to what I have written regarding equations we hold as truths in our beliefs and belief-systems, that help us decide what is real and what isn't. This is very much... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Being wealthy is not a crime

I don't begrudge people making high salaries: accumulated wealth is a special resource, but it is squandered when those who control it use it only for their own interests. Huge money can solve so many little problems, it can open up possibilities for people overburdened by debt, overwhelmed by illness, unable to pay the massive monies for advanced education... It can make a significant difference to a community that can't afford to supply its schools adequately, or pay its teachers a decent... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 23, 2017

LAMENT a little updated

Lament When the night goes dark, all glowing wild eyes dimmed and dead; When the forest goes silent of song and cry and roar and there is only the creaking of trees moved by the rush of wind; When flowers no longer hum with the dancing bee; When the sky is empty of wings that glitter and crackle or softly beat the air; When water is wild and foul no longer home to any living thing, and dry dust bakes unsheltered from the sightless sun; When the heart of humanity is broken with loneliness and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, June 26, 2017

Clouds and the Power Elite

Clouds are glorious, I love clouds seen from the ground, from a plane window, And look, here are all these new clouds to learn Latin names of! http://ideas.ted.com/gallery-12-glorious-new-reasons-to-celebrate-cloudy-days/?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=ideas-blog&utm_term=art-design What is it with the Latin? Since the Roman world faded, Latin has been the language of inaccessability to the lay person. When Latin was the tongue of everyday use, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 23, 2017

When politics gets me down...

I am able to chuckle over the thing I posted about before, about how 'Millennials' are to blame for huge companies like certain fast-food chains and department stores feeling the pinch, for home-buying to be declining... All those markets are shifting because many of us, not just the so-called Millennials are choosing healthier, more wholesome, more thrifty lifestyles. The great corporate machines require the support of the blue-collar workers, the miners and farmers and most of all, the... Sign in to see full entry.

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