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Reply to blog post: Ask by simplicity
Comment written 4 months ago

"while waiting for the storm to pass, I learned to dance in the rain"

What a beautiful image in such a dark poem....but a great motto to live by!
Reply to blog post: Hitler, cough cough....I mean Sam Walton. by ChicoElyse
Comment written 4 months ago

Actually she is a very intelligent girl who is in college trying to get an education and become a taxpaying citizen...under an administration in D.C. that is making it harder and harder for a young person to do so. As an older adult like you I am saddened that you would attack her and question her parentage instead of reasonably making your point. If you want young people to understand your point of view and possibly change theirs, your technique leaves something to be desired. No one has attacked you or called you any names. All you are really doing by getting angry at this little girl is making sure that she will not want to consider any other viewpoint but her own.
Reply to blog post: Satire: a dish best served cautiously by xtoph
Comment written 4 months ago

I think satire is like holding up a magic mirror to humanity that shows everyone naked....some will look and laugh while others will be offended and angry and still others will be embarassed and pretend not to look. Just as clothing is covering what is really there, the stories we tell ourselves are usually myths that cover what we really do. The truth really is hard to take sometimes.
Reply to blog post: Pythagoras Was Craaaaazy by xtoph
Comment written 4 months ago

I agree with your view that Eliot's madness was not necessarily because of a "biochemical imbalance". I talk about close to the same thing in my blog this week. Swimming around in the dark side can be dangerous when you don't have any swimfins...the monsters can take over your mind!
Reply to blog post: Balancing Spheres by MissAshley55
Comment written 4 months ago

Balance is an ancient idea that has been followed by asian cultures for thousands of years. Even scientists now know that everything in nature has balance...a yin and yang to everything, and when that gets out of whack the organism becomes ill and could even die. The whole idea of trying to live a life of balance is a good one. In fact balance is the whole idea behind justice.

Very good blog...it made me think!
Reply to blog post: "Globalize Me, Please" by Cheribelle
Comment written 4 months ago

It must be really weird for them also....imagine answering a phone and trying to help someone with their account who is halfway around the the world and living in a very different culture than you are. The only link you have with this person is the computer screen in front of you. It is all becoming very impersonal and the fact that you know the person you are speaking with is that far away just makes it more so.
Reply to blog post: drama n life by angyekrahwinkel
Comment written 4 months ago

Its amazing how another person can drag you down and stop your life in its tracks. It is hard to let go of the "dream" of what you thought someone else was for your life. But I totally understand the feeling of freedom when you finally get that person out of your life and see who you really are. It took me months after he left to stop checking our driveway when I came around the corner from somewhere....I was sure that one day he would come back and I would have to deal with making him go again.

I hope that someday you find someone who will make your life easier and happier...not drag you down. It's possible....hard to find but possible. Just leave your heart open to whatever might come along, but remember that if you are instantly attracted to someone they probably aren't for you! I found out that whatever it is in someone that makes me completely lose my sense of balance is the thing that will someday drag me down.

Hang in there
Reply to blog post: Balance is Necessary by branzenbach
Comment written 4 months ago

Some say that it is too late...that the balance has already tipped too far in the wrong direction. Others say that we consider ourselves to be too powerful...that the earth will always abide and we are the ones who will die off. Most of us never really understand how huge the earth is and how miniscule we are. But I think we are definately causing harm to the earth and we have to do something about it now.

I wish that someone would have told us how serious this really was 20 years ago. There were some who did try...Al Gore was one. But no one wanted to listen because of the almighty dollar. Now those people are old, white-haired men who look around bewildered and try to blame it on something else...or else they just refuse to accept it as truth. We have had unbalanced people running the world for a long time...hopefully the new generation will do what we failed to to...pay attention to the real world around us and see what our responsibilties truly are.

:)
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Comment written 4 months ago

It is hard to say if Eliot's sickness was one of the mind or the soul. Did he turn toward the darkness because of his illness or was his illness caused by his penchant for swimming in that darkness? We know so little about mental illness and its causes...scientists and doctors could be way off. Some people can travel in the occult and not let it affect their souls. Others become caught in the quagmire and cannot find any other way out on this world or in this existence. Khan's account of Eliot was just that...his own. He saw Eliot through his own lense of reality, and could only conjecture as to what was happening to him. One of Khan's biggest frustrations with his friend was his inability to know him intimately (not physically but mentally). When someone we know takes their own life, we all have a habit of internalizing it.

Khan seems to think that Lucy had no idea that Eliot was that close to killing himself, but I think Lucy was waiting for it...she wouldn't have stopped him if she knew what he was going to do. That is why she didn't check on him when she arrived home that night. I think she knew, and let it happen.
Reply to blog post: GLOBALIZATION by JDat
Comment written 4 months ago

You got it...hopefully your generation will get it together and do something about our addiction to oil. Unfortuneately my generation (over 40) has been lame in regards to our responsibilities. I suppose if someone had told us how bad it would get so fast, we might have gotten off of our duffs and done something. All I can say is that I have opened my eyes in the last 5 years and I see things in a different light now.

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