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You are what you eat
Posted Jul 20, 2001
Let's start off with a quote, shall we?
"What we think is less than what we know: What we know is less than what we love: What we love is so much less than what there is; and to this precise extent, we are much less that what we are." ~ R.D. Laing ~
Interesting. (Is there a smiley for...HMMMM?)
Been doing some reading lately. Read American Pyscho.
I think that I've lost a bit of my soul by reading it. I haven't seen the movie. I'm not really sure that I will.
Read a couple of Robert A. Heinlein books. I forgot that they are sometimes physic heavy. Not that it a big problem, it's just that my brain has atrophied and I can't think much anymore. I was told that it was due to laziness. I blame it on tv. 
Well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it 
A cool monster/vampire book, Obsidian Butterfly, by Laurell Hamilton. If you like that sort of thing. Nifty (!) protaganist. I want to be her in my next life !!!
Of course, now I'm drawing a blank on what else I've read. 
I know that I've been reading. I'll think of some of the other books I've been reading and maybe I'll make a really boring list for people to read.
End quote... "Love designates a subjective condition in which the welfare and happiness of another person are the essential to one's own happiness." ~ Jubal Harshaw ~
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You are what you eat
Posted Jul 20, 2001
Let's start off with a quote, shall we?
"What we think is less than what we know: What we know is less than what we love: What we love is so much less than what there is; and to this precise extent, we are much less that what we are." ~ R.D. Laing ~
Interesting. (Is there a smiley for...HMMMM?)
Been doing some reading lately. Read American Pyscho. I think that I've lost a bit of my soul by reading it. I haven't seen the movie. I'm not really sure that I will.
Read a couple of Robert A. Heinlein books. I forgot that they are sometimes physic heavy. Not that it a big problem, it's just that my brain has atrophied and I can't think much anymore. I was told that it was due to laziness. I blame it on tv. Well that's my story and I'm stickin' to it
A cool monster/vampire book, Obsidian Butterfly, by Laurell Hamilton. If you like that sort of thing. Nifty (!) protaganist. I want to be her in my next life !!!
Of course, now I'm drawing a blank on what else I've read. I know that I've been reading. I'll think of some of the other books I've been reading and maybe I'll make a really boring list for people to read.
End quote... "Love designates a subjective condition is which the welfare and happiness of another person are the essential to one's own happiness." ~ Jubal Harshaw ~
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july 10 2001
Posted Jul 10, 2001
I explain to you matters
Pertaining to enlightenment,
But don’t try to keep
Your mind on them.
Just turn to the ocean
Of your own essence
And develop practical
Accord with its nature.
- Yangshan
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I am Spock
Posted Jul 10, 2001
Okay I'm not really. Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of Star Trek. Except for Voyager. That one, I'm sorry, sucked. I tried watching it a few times hoping that it would get better. It didn't. Of course I'm sure that there are some people out there that really enjoyed that show. I'm just not one of them.
So onto the lessons for today. I think that I might start with a well know koan. Some of you out will know what that is. For the rest of you, grab a dictionary
There was a Buddist monk who one day found himself running from a hungry bear. The bear chased him to a cliff. There was nothing for him to do, if he did not desire to be food for the bear's hungry stomach, but jump. He did so and was able to catch hold, as he fell, of a branch of wood growing from the cliff's side. As he hung there, looking up at the hungry bear above, he heard the roar of a famished lion far below who was already waiting for him to tire, lose his grip and fall to its hungry jaws.
As the monk hung suspended, hungry bear above and starving lion below, he noticed the heads of two gophers appear from the cliff's side. At once they began gnawing on the small stump of wood to which he clung so desperately.
All at once the monk saw that just a stretch away was a small clump of wild strawberries. He calmly reached out, plucked the largest, reddest and ripest of the berries, and put it in his mouth.
"How delicious!," he said. 
Whew! That was some koan. I'll look for another one later.
So I was lurking at the conversation thread for lurking. I find that mildly funny because I didn't actually post anything. Just lurked about for a bit. You know what they say... Stalking is illegal, but lurking isn't. I don't know who "they" are, but I heard it from somewhere. I think this is enough rambling for now. Bye.
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The Light Fantastic
Posted Jul 6, 2001
Well what to talk about....hmmm... I've been reading some others on-line here and on another site that I lurk about. There are some interesting people inhabiting this world.
I think that this will just be a stream of rambling thoughts. I'll try and to think of something topical for later entries.
My friend Bob came by to visit. That may not seem like much, but he's coming from Calgary Alberta to Moncton New Brunswick, not just to visit me, though. As much as I'd like to think that it's because of me he is showing up here it's not, really. The Canadian Chess Champion Tournement is being held in Sackville NB and I'm on his way there. Still it's nice of him to stop by and visit. He brought treats for us. Yeah!! Ramna 1/2 for Kate and fresh (as you can get after a 12 hour plan ride) springrolls for me. It's a good treat because I sometimes crave them and there is no place here that makes them the same way.
I learned something, though. Although the rolls were mighty tastey, they didn't seem to taste as good as I thought they were going to. I had been wanting some since I moved here. Could this be because I was imagining them better tasting then they really were? Was memory and desire making me somehow exaggerate how scrumious they were?
Off that topic and onto another one.
I'm starting to re-build myself. This probably isn't the proper sort of way of doing it, but hey, I should start making some of my own rules. It's hard. And it's a bit lonely. But what do you do when the person that you are confident that you are going to spend if not the rest of your life together, at least a majority of you time with, decides that they are no longer in love with you? Other than spend some time in a well deserving pit of self pity... (gosh, it's lonely at the top ) In my case you do.
Ha!! Thought there was going to be some sort of epiphany here didn't you! Nope. I'm still wallowing in self pity. Oh don't worry I'll get over it. Everyone does. I'm sure that in a year or so I'll look back on this and exclaim "Why, what a blathering idiot I was!" and really hope that no one has read this.
Rambling topic 2
I was cruising through the on line researchers when I happened apon a strange conversation. That's still a bit unnerving for me. To follow along a thread just to see where it ends. It's rather like going to a cafe or something and purposly listening in on a neighbouring conversation. Anyway this particular one was carried on in a language that reminded me of Clockwork Orange. Not that I'm an expert, because I'm sure that I even spelled it wrong, but it was weird. I was getting the gist of the thread. I kept getting mental pictures of the people talking. I was seeing a couple of "kids", teenagers, but the type that were still unidentifiable as to their exact age. The girl would have been wearing some sort of black peusdoleather jacket with stripped leggings, a sweater that was a bit too big and big black boots. I'm sure her hair would have been a cool popsicle shade of purple and at least a couple of tattoos showing.
The boy would be basically the male equivalent. Only maybe smoking or playing with a knife.
I have no idea who there were or what their names were. But it was an interesting dialogue.
Yes, you're right I need to get a life
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