Posted on 09/15/2009 5:39:02 AM PDT by Mrz_truth4
This idea of freedom of speech is going to far with this Tea Party Express. White people in RV driving from city to city disrupting the townhouse meetings. Everyone wants and needs healthcare but the wealthy wants tax cuts, they can pay for healthcare for themselves and others. It won't stiphened their income. I think President Obama's Healthcare reform is great it allows people who can't afford healthcare to have it. That what the Hatians do. It's not socialism it's called taking care of your country so we can stand strong against the enemy. This capital government is a mess, Let me get mines and bump everyone else. WHERE IS YOUR HEART?
A friend of ours helped LoM out recently. Friend has decorated her house on an Egyptian theme, and will soon receive a gift of three framed photos. Friend has seen small versions of them and liked, but yesterday we had them printed large (two at 22x28 in?, one a bit smaller) and now LoM is out frame-hunting. I was stunned to see the detail at the larger size.
Fires on both floors helps.
*bad idea generated*
Non-on-fire stygian depths ARE kinda odd come to think of it.
Human nature has probably not changed much is 10,000 years.
True, but it is poised to change rapidly, permanently, and unpredictably in the next thousand years.
Most of our change has been social, as we accommodated to advancing cultures. But recently, because of sheer numbers, it has become possible for unusual genetic anomalies to appear and if not outright detrimental, to prosper.
One of the big forcings is a tendency to be more comfortable in large groups. That I find personally alarming, but it seems to be true.
Another characteristic that appears to be getting reinforced is a better memory, or at least better organizational skills. The world is changing at a hectic pace, and some of our children seem to be thriving it it.
Other changes may be even less predictable. Our tastes in mating and other social activities can be chaotic, and what may come out of it is anybody's guess.
I suspect it's always been the case that some children thrive more than others in whatever environment they find themselves. If change is involved, the changers and adapters succeed; if change is repressed the advance-in-status-quo succeed.
Good summary. People have different personalities, and various environments are more conducive than others for certain types. I’m a “status-quo” person, myself, and have fortunately placed myself in a niche where that works!
But in my work I've succeeded in many ways by taking the road less followed. (OTOH, re-visit paragraph one.)
Roads less followed, roads less traveled ... yeah, we get that.
But how do you think it was that we ran into Darksheare?
Whan that Aprill with his shoures sote°
The droghte° of Marche hath perced to the rote,°
And bathed every veyne° in swich licour,°
Of which vertu° engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus° eek with his swete breeth
Inspired° hath in every holt° and heeth°
The tendre croppes,° and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne;1
And smale fowles° maken melodye,
That slepen al the night with open yë°—
So priketh hem Nature in hir corages2—
Than longen° folk to goon° on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,3
To ferne halwes,° couthe° in sondry londes;
And specially, from every shires ende
Of Engelond to Caunterbury they wende,
The holy blisful martir4 for to seke,°
That hem hath holpen,° whan that they were seke.°
English sure came a long way in 200 years.
When at the first I took my pen in hand
Thus for to write, I did not understand
That I at all should make a little book
In such a mode; nay, I had undertook
To make another; which, when almost done,
Before I was aware, I this begun.
And thus it was: I, writing of the way
And race of saints, in this our gospel day,
Fell suddenly into an allegory
About their journey, and the way to glory,
In more than twenty things which I set down.
This done, I twenty more had in my crown;
And they again began to multiply,
Like sparks that from the coals of fire do fly.
Nay, then, thought I, if that you breed so fast,
I’ll put you by yourselves, lest you at last
Should prove ad infinitum, and eat out
The book that I already am about.
Unlike language, which tends to solidify as it spreads, like cooling lava, the Human race, having extruded itself to every nook and cranny of Earth, now variegates itself into its own ecological spectrum.
We are now the prey upon which we the predators feed.
"English sure came a long way in 200 years."
"The Canterbury Tales
by
Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400)"
The Canterbury Tales
It's been more than six hundred years.
Than longen° folk to goon° on pilgrimages,
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
To ferne halwes,° couthe° in sondry londes
I could go for that.
My brother-in-law once had a house nestled back along a country road shaded with arching trees from either side.
I called entering his "ferne halwes" a "green cathedral", and I was always delighted to wende his way from my own shires ende when I could.
I can't help noticing that the locations of these qat pictures always have thrift-store furniture and piles of random debris.
That’s because you’re not seeing the “before the cat” pictures.
Oh, I see. It’s not that slovenly people get cats ... it’s that cats ruin your furniture and create piles of rubble.
We could substitute “boys” for “cats” in that sentence.
I noticed that, too. Why don’t people keep the house clean if they have a cat and a camera?
Somebody chose door number ‘3’?
I’d guess. Man. If I can’t clean house, I don’t take photos! LOL!
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