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Things I think of inside my head… part 1…

How do butterflies fly when it is windy? They do not weigh very much. And their wings are huge. Why don’t they just get blown all over the place?

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The irony of being alone… (or): You are never by yourself, you are with yourself…

The thing… and this is really a cool thing as things go… about that expression: ‘by yourself’, is that it is a fallacy, an impossibility, a blue herring, and many other clever ways of saying that it is just plain … Continue reading

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Living history is what we all do…

Making history takes hard work.

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The next time you are in bed with the person you love, and you have to get out of that nice, warm bed to turn off the light, take a moment before you flip the light switch to wave at the person who is still in bed…

… because they are totally in charge of your relationship…

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Helen of Troy… a role model… of sorts…

Yes, she was beautiful. So beautiful that we still use her name thousands of years later as an ideal of beauty for which to strive. They say that her beauty launched a thousand ships.   Well, yeah, but not in … Continue reading

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I’m glad that people no longer use the expression: the world is your oyster…

Because not everybody likes oysters. I mean, I guess life can be like an oyster… It can be very difficult to get into, and it can be very messy once you do get into it… the odds are you aren’t … Continue reading

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Sometimes, when I meet someone, and they tell me it is a pleasure to meet me…

… I can’t help thinking inside my head: ‘well, yeah, you say that now’… Because they most likely said the same thing to the last person who totally ruined their life…

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Twit wit…Part 27…

*** Warning, might contain naughty words*** ———————————– *And now you have walked on the rice paper of wisdom without leaving the footprints of ignorance… you may leave the temple, Grasshopper. *So a picture is worth a thousand words, but love … Continue reading

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I can’t believe you believe that… or that you don’t believe that other thing… that is sort of hard to believe too…

Let’s talk about beliefs… and whatever the opposite of believing is… because believing… or not believing in things… seems to be central to the core of what makes us human. This is not a post about religion… except that it sort of is, because religions … Continue reading

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What? Another old, recycled post? Why???

Because… because because because because… because of the wonderful things I does… And because this followed the other two old posts I just reposted, and I thought people might have been nervous about my mental health. —————————————- By now you … Continue reading

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