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I LOVE walking.

Do you train at the gym?

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The mobile phone was used as an example of a greater epidemic. It is a symptom of a crass, consumerist society that not only speaks of nothing, but apparently, has nothing to write. The mono-syllabic phone conversation that are ubiquitous nowadays has found its mirrored companion in the mono-syllabic sentence. Judging from what some people have to contribute, not just to this debate, but others, it sounds as though they were vaccinated with a Haiku needle at birth. Either that or the doctor slapped them a little too hard.

So, it isn’t the phone that is at issue, or even the accompanying bells and whistles, but rather an attitude of shocking self-centredness and self-entitlement that places import on technological trivialities over human relationships. This, in turn, diminishes our society.

Hard times come, and hard times go, and it seems us humans need always to reach crisis before we “reach out” to save what vestige of our humanity is left. There is beauty in that, for in spite of ourselves, most of us wish to do some good.

Stephen

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Yes, PB, it is funny about phones not being just phones. They have more distractions than a three year old at Xmas. How odd to see everyone with a phone to their ear as they plod down the street, or drive their car. The conversation goes: “what’s up?” “Nothin’. You?” We are a world that has nothing to say about nothing. If Sarte were alive he would write a sequel called Nothing and Nothingness; and then kill himself. Even his bleak outlook would seem cheery in comparison. We want something, but we don’t know what it is, so we buy, or believe a white haired man directs our lives, or crystals, or worse, we lose all belief. So, even if we don’t consume all of our planets resources, we will consume our souls.

Yet, here we are, a community of sorts, reaching out to one another across an electronic divide. All can’t be lost or we wouldn’t bother. We are not a unified community, nor a harmonious one, but there are people touching people in beautiful ways. This can be a catalyst for our “real” lives, where we can share the energy of our cyber-friendships with our family and friends. How beautiful that a laughter shared here can resonate acoustically, and how miraculous that a birth, a pain, a tear, a love, can fill our hearts so that we are launched outside to bear witness to a harvest moon.

Stephen

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Moonspell freaked me out. :shock:

Clown In The Moon by Dylan Thomas

My tears are like the quiet drift
Of petals from some magic rose;
And all my grief flows from the rift
Of unremembered skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

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On reflection, though, is it pessimistic if houses are 50% cheaper and you can pick up a secondhand Range Rover Sport for less than the price of a Fiesta of the same age?

At some point it is logical to assume that our present practices of over-consuming are going to get us into BIG trouble. A Range Rover consumes more gas than a Fiesta, and therefore, as gas prices continue to rise, they aren’t really a good deal in the long-run.

We all need to make better choices about what we need, and what we buy. It is like a relationship, it may begin with presents and flowers, but those are not the things which sustain love. It is the inexpensive things which make love flourish…a smile, a touch, a helping hand. Likewise, if we commit to walking ten percent more, or riding our bikes, or denying ourselves the latest and greatest technology on the market, we will find that our own personal situation will be financially better. Might even shed a few pounds in the bargain. :D

Stephen

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Question please Twisted Evil

Oh, yeah. :oops:

Do you have more than just your ears pierced? If so, where? I don’t have any at all, btw.

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Would you dive in to save someone from drowning, even though you couldn’t swim yourself?

I dunno, because I’m a good swimmer. I would definitely try to save them, though. Probably just be a knee-jerk reaction.

Would you sleep with someone for a million squid

That is way too much calamari. I would do it to get my rocks off, though. Oh, so long as the wife wasn’t privy. JK, of course I would want the wife there with me. :oops: Oh, wait, I wouldn’t do it with just anyone, not a guy, that’s for sure. I had a colonoscopy and that is as far as I will go with things going up there. And that’s FINAL!!!

If you could go back to a period in your life for a short while, which part would you want to revisit and what would you do? Would you change anything?

Gosh, so many past regrets to revisit. Uhm, I would go back to when I was in elementary and make my parents give me piano lessons, and make them move out of the God-forsaken-town I was brought up in. I would probably need the invisibility thing and the magic to accomplish that, so I’d bring that along with me, too.
:D

Stephen

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I went out the back window of a VW Bug when I was 17. I told Doug he should wait a sec before I handed him the wine.

Have you ever thought of killing someone? :shock: For real, I mean.

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No, I usually prefer bare feet, actually.

What is your favourite type of dance?

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I love marmite..

I don’t like marmite, at all. This isn’t going to be an issue, is it? :( I like peanut butter. :)

Do you have to eat when you watch a movie?

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