From my comments in the conversation following my post Perfectionism is In the Details:

Humans work on an "us" and "them" basis. As I said in a recent comment on a post that seems to have disappeared, I believe this to be "hardwired" into our systems, whereas WHO QUALIFIES as "us" and "not-us" (and therefore "them") is both socialized and ( Read more... )

He gave me permission to post it in my journal.
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Interesting thought.

I was watching a documentary about the head chef at Tasajara Community Center..he wrote the Tassajara Bread Book. He is a Buddhist monk and one of the lessons he repeated was..

You cannot make anyone happy.
If ( Read more... )

http://community.livejournal.com/literaryquotes/6582159.html

In response to the post
An eye for an eye...
* Nov. 11th, 2008 at 3:48 PM
by

Akien MacIain, Secret Agent Of Happiness

Weirdness...
 
Seen on a bumpersticker on my way to work:

An eye for an eye
makes the whole world blind
I don't find it relevant to any particular thing in my life right now, but I just love the idea. Yes, this model does not work.

MY ( Read more... )

Originally a comment on a post by ozarque,

http://ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com/395158.html

is an interesting take on WORRYING and some tools to curtail it.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 10-20-2008 [entries|archive| friends| userinfo]
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http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/25/news/garcia_men.fortune/
(for reference)

Ozarque, although I appreciate your intent in saying you should have read the book first, [see http://ozarque.livejournal.com/552714.html ( Read more... )

http://catpriestess.livejournal.com/3632.html

Initial post is speech she wrote for toastmasters
-- well worth reading.

Then, from comments:





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Prop. 8 is an attack on religious and personal freedom

LINK TO ARTICLE:
Prop. 8 is an attack on religious and personal freedom




THIS POST IS, IN ITS ENTIRETY,  TAKEN --

WITH PERMISSION --

FROM A FRIEND-LOCKED POST

EXCERPT: [FROM ARTICLE]
And then he [a UU pastor] talked about how angry this proposition makes him. Angry, as a person of faith. This ( Read more... )

It makes intuitive sense
to require immigrants
to have received all
CDC recommended vaccines
prior to getting a green card
(e.g. work legally in the U.S.)

But what about when it's gender specific,
expensive, and the requirement turns into
only getting one of the 3-spaced-out shots
required for the vaccine to be effective --
against something that is not ( Read more... )