This is one of those things that underlies a lot of my thinking. I'm not posting this because of any particular thing that's going on, but because it's a general concept that is basic to my philosophy and understanding of the world, and I wanted to just put it down here so I can point to it later, and so that people can help me refine it and see ( Read more... )

A month or two ago, I heard or read SOMETHING, I can't remember where or by who, which pointed out that Garrison Keillor's tagline on his five-minute daily program "Writer's Almanac" was a pretty good summary of how to maintain happiness in life ( Read more... )

You can have two types of a dream. You can have the thing that you want, but you don't REALLY have any intention of pursuing. Oh, you may make tentative steps toward it, you may take classes in related fields, you may TELL people what you're planning, but, really, you're not going to do anything about it ( Read more... )

The Maharishi, the founder of the Transcendental Meditation movement, has died. He was somewhere around 91 years old ( Read more... )

I can lead off by mentioning Lis. Every day I see her and wonder how I managed to be lucky enough to end up with her ( Read more... )

First, you have The Other -- that which is from the other world, eerie, eldrich, weird ( Read more... )

See, I have a general rule. When possible, when arguing on the Internet, I prefer to make my arguments based on facts. I don't like making arguments based on, "Because I said so ( Read more... )

The problem is that we have an entire government which is unfamiliar with the principles upon which that government was founded ( Read more... )

Last night, as I was falling asleep, I thought of some predictions I'd make, about the future:
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Thesis
In the British Isles, "breakfast" is eggs, sausages, bacon, toast, coffee, juice . . .

Antithesis
In Continental Europe, "breakfast" is a croissant or other roll, and coffee.

Synthesis

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