Now for a lighter fare of movie, ha ha, I switched to Escape from New York. I doubt there will be as much philosophy from this one though you never know from where my head is right now. All I am thinking right now is this is the first time I noticed that Donald Pleasance is in this movie and it is a John Carpenter movie. Think after the
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The last question of the Stand is "Can people change?" Whether that is meant to be about a single person or people in general, what do you think?
I don't know what it is about this movie that I have seen a million times that made me so philosophical about it. Maybe it was the energy drink. But at least the movie is over now.
Do the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the one? It is a topic covered in this movie when they have to leave Stu behind. It is a topic covered in Star Trek with Spock covering both sides of the argument. What do you think?
I am seriously getting tired. Still watching the Stand which will get me to about 7 a.m. Then I will still have another 4 hours. Maybe people will be up by then
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If something like the Stand was to happen, do you think we would learn from our mistakes and lose bigotry, selfishness, greed, etc. Would we try to do it better the next time with whatever was left? Would it split into good and evil like the book? Or would it be just the same garbled mess we have now? Opinions?
Continuing with my working with The Stand, I just got to the scene where they got the power back on after having the discussion whether that was a good idea or not because that was the "old way". I don't know why but it made me think of this budget debate. One group says there is nothing wrong with raising the debt ceiling because law makers have
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Part of why I do this blogathon every year for the Lupus Foundation is the lack of knowledge of the general population about the disease. I hate to think of medicine as a popularity contest but where the interest is, the money goes sometimes. Here are some stats from the LFA website
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OK, I am full of pasta, cookies, and Dr. Pepper. In between, I have been watching the Stand and setting up Quicken on my new computer. Now I have to try to figure out what to do with this blog for the next 7.5 hours
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