You know?!!!? You and I would probably not agree on a lot of things, but your logic is hard to escape. I'm a bit of a dullard sometimes. What did you mean by "rid yourself of human compassion?" If your answer is going to crush my psyche and wound my spirit, please use vaseline. Thanks for the thoughts, and I'll look forward to reading some of your posts.
LET’S ABOLISH IMMIGRATION LAWS An Initial Salvo in an Interminable Argument This is my position, and I’m sticking to it until someone can present good reasons for thinking otherwise, as opposed to using bigotry and bad science to support continuation of vicious, universally harmful, and ultimately unenforceable laws. The following tale, basical
I'm a madman, obviously, who dares to believe that love and power and happiness are possible if only we stretch out our arms to each other like the cousins we actually are instead of whatever pariahs we imagine in the depths of media induced paranoia. I cannot express how much I appreciate your taking the time to read, reach out, communicate. Thank you, and Ciao for now, Jimbo
Robert Oppenheimer, a leader among the scientists who directed the production of the first nuclear weapons, likened the first test to an experience of Armageddon. He and his fellows actually had a betting pool as to whether the atmosphere would ignite as a result of the detonation. In order to insure the political viability of the infant “Military Industrial C
An Intuition of Fruition in a Blog a Day, Or, Hello, Hello, I Occasionally Bellow About Paying Dues and Tithing Tuition Saying hello to virtual acquaintances is not a lot easier for me, psychically, than bellying up to the bar to flirt and seduce whatever remnants of the cognescenti are present when I wander through whichever den of iniquity I happen
What powerful writing; what articulat work. Thanks. I'd like to be in communication, but I'm such a techno-virgin, all I can do is paint by the numbers. Any advice? I've got a lot to say, not necessarily as categorically marketable as what you do, but I'm prolific and readable, even on a bad day. I'll hope to hear from you.
What a great slice of 'real', to peel back the sealant that most people maintain over their hearts, like they do insurance on their cars, to take care of accidents and any exigency like life or love or the notion that we can never know but need to try.
Thank you sir! High praise from the maestro. I like what Octavio Paz said once: "He dreamed, dreaming not to remember his true life of lies, but to remember his lying life of truths."
Your analysis is clear and insightful. Your prose is clear and graceful. What I would like to know is what forces exist in the Mid-East that stand for an end to all the cycles of victimization and revenge that families like Bush and Saud, et.al., et.al., some of them Iraqi, utilize as a method for keeping power and gaining riches, not just at our expense, but seemingly at the cost of human existence on the planet. Whet will it take for us, as citize
I moved myself today, “voluntary temporary suicide” be damned, not one box involved, even for the thousand books and all the miles of files. I want to see things, put them where they go, and get on with this ‘living-by-my-wits’ arrangement with the cosmos, to write my butt off every day. My ass is on a leather suitcase just now, and I’m typing this missive on
You are so right, Wahkanta! The "Prison Industrial Complex" has merged with the Military Industrial Complex(Wackenhut and Haliburton are two of many examples of companies that make billions off our taxes by providing different forms of 'security,' which translate as scams of incarceration and incapacitation. My point is that we CAN do something about all this, if we'll just be stalwart in relating to each other and standing for eac
Thanks, Sherye! You state exactly the way my friend is approaching it, religiously going to AA, trying to do everything by the book, look at himself when the pain hits. I have a different view. It's not that I disdain any of that; it's all good. What I call us to see, however, is that the institutions, which have NO POWER OTHER THAN OUR PARTICIPATION OR PASSIVITY, we have created have no moral compass, no guiding principles which most of us
We had a sixth grade party, and I was in love with this young gorgeous hunk of femme fatale flesh, her name was Leigh Deimel; I remember like it was yesterday, that I'd never had the courage to say more than 'huh' and 'duh' in her general direction. I didn't even have enough of a clue to know why she made me feel this way. My guts roil to think about what it took to screw up my courage to ask her to take a turn around the skating rink with me.
Here's a thought you may not appreciate. Each year SEEMS to pass more quickly, because as a portion of your conscious life, each year is a smaller and smaller fraction of the total. And at the end of the ride, unfortunately, what we all confront is our mortality. I'm fifty, and I've grappled with this since I was your age. There is no answer. There is nothing that will change the fact that, being mortal, we come into this world for a brief
You must all be youngsters. Did you know that the language roots of prayer and praise were precisely the same. Some scholars of mythology, anthropologists, psychologists, and other scientists more interested in the mystery of living existence than in mastery of dead words contend that the central heart of creation lives inside of all sexual expression. "Fucking is the life force," is how I've put it before, and masturbation is just one sort
Thanks, WiseFawnI' I'm pretty much committed to once a day. I've got four items now on board. God, or whatever creative force guides this massive madness that is our cosmos, calls forth from among the hundreds of thousands of pages I've produced over the years. "Put some of it out there!" Who knows? I'm going to try to find an audience, so thanks for taking the time to wade through it. My overwriting proclivities are maniacal, I know.<BR
Thanks for this; there's a book just recently reviewed widely, on this very subject. One of my favorite "bits" about this sort of connection comes from the mid-1990's, up until I don't know when. Osama Bin Laden's Uncle, I believe, held a large minority stake in the second largest airport in the Houston area for some time. Edmund Burke spoke about "the students of Machievell" in the 1780's. "To such as these," he said, "periods of peace are merely
The news filtered in as Rick and I said hello this morning before our weekly update, that, down the street from where we conversed over coffee, a masked gunman had just robbed the local Wachovia. Only a few diehards among us would disagree that the perpetrator of this crime belongs in prison. What about my friend Rick, who two months ago, after ten years “on th
Are you well satisfied yet? If not, who knows what we could cook up together? Check out some of my articles. I'm a bit of a nerd, but that means I'm a fox in the sack.
Well, hell! I may be your father's age, Angelina, and you seem exactly like my type! !!
Listen, you! Projection is the most primitive form of coping strategy. The most likely explanation for your lover's behavior is that he either wants to have sex with other people, or he already is. Check out Scott Ridley's book, "Red Queen", if you want to learn about the way things really work.
You go Angelina Rehab!! As for 'first times,' some other time; it was hilarious and brief, in my case. Goodness! The key consideration for me is that this country is so incredibly screwed up and anti-sexual. No other 'civilized' place in the world has such regressive and negative attitudes toward sex. It's a drive at least as powerful(if more intermittent, thankfully)as eating---"I could just eat you up!" right?---and yet we're supposed to
So! I take it the 'adult content' consisted of the word 'fuck', eh? I look forward to something with a little more yum to it, a little more hum to it, and plenty of come in it. Ya know what I mean? Or maybe not; the bleary-eyed vision of the party aftermath is fine, but more erotica and less intoxica would be fine with me also.
Thomas Huxley, Aldous's biologist father, has a quip apropos this discussion. "The greatest tragedy in science? The slaying of a grand theory by ugly facts!" From the perspective of the originator of this thread, the "Living Wage" campaigns, of which there have been scores in this country alone, the 'ugly facts' in question are that dramatic increases in minimum wage, instead of causing a net job loss, or an increase in unemployment, have had a slig
How interesting. My next post is going to be a story about preachers here in Dixie, who have made some ungodly gazillions of dollars off their flocks, all tax deductible, who have opened charitable operations in Kenya and Uganda. It's an amazing phenomena, and the attitudes that they have, toward Africa, the U.S., their multi-millionaire prosperity, is just so interesting. I'm not so much for or against religion, as I am interested in understanding
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