Archive for the ‘thoughts’ Category
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Have you ever been scared? Not movie scared but scared by incidences in your life. I have and it was some most unpleasant experiences. Mostly I got scared for my wife and children but on occasion events affecting me would scare me but usually not at the time. When the events occurred I would usually just get mad at my own stupidity. It was only later when I realized the consequences that I would let the potential outcome scare me.
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My son was emphatic, his patience growing thin at the slowpoke ahead of us. Traffic was thick and blowing a horn would do little good but that cuts no ice with the young. I think he may have wanted to just hear the horn. This trait repeatedly surfaced over the years. When I first started using a cane he got a big squeeze horn and attached it. I couldn't really use it since I only had one useful hand. Later when I was confined to a wheelchair he complained about the wimpy horn on the chair. If I listened to my son he would have installed a big aah-ooga horn.
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1001 horsepower, that's what the ad said. Apparently 1000 horses wasn't enough. They had to emphasize that 1 extra horsepower. If you are going to be ostentatious you may as well be sure people notice!
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When you stop to think about it the concept of nothing or rather nothingness is truly a mind boggling conception. Most people equate the idea of nothing with empty and that is certainly one valid historical meaning but nothingness is much more (or perhaps I should say much less) than empty. In fact the word empty is meaningless where nothingness is involved. Nothingness means read more about nothing
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This post is not a story I normaly post because my Internet Service Provider (Comcast) changed from a McAfee virus detection program to Norton. I thought VISTA was a piece of s**t but Norton is even worse. After installing Norton my computer runs markedly slower which should have been my first clue but I persevered. I shouldn't have.
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Sometimes you see or read things that just make you wonder. Not too long ago I read an article in our local paper about a bag lady in a nearby town that was found dead. Apparently she was a well know figure in the town and the paper had a short biography of her life that struck a tragic cord in me.
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2010 is upon us and it's an exciting start to a new year. What will the year bring? Using history as our guide we'll get a new beginning full of promise, hope and certainly the unexpected as well as the crazy, bizarre and demented behavior of those around us. In past years others have documented this type of behavior (e.g., the Darwin Awards) and, of course, you have to ask, "What were they thinking?". The usual response?" It seemed like a good idea at the time!"
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Does GOD exist and are we unique? Interesting questions, both of them. I don't know of any scientific proof of GOD's existence but there is an intriguing hypothesis on life's origins that may bear on these questions. (more...)
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Well, perhaps not quite living in the country but we started out not living in the city either and it was pleasant. We had woods on two sides of our house filled with ponds and small wood creatures that our children could investigate. There were places, like "dead man's hill" where the children could stretch their imaginations and dare each other to bike or sled to the bottom as fast as possible. Once endowed with confidence they even built a ramp at the bottom for emulating daredevils. Those were the days but they're now it's all gone. Evaporated for ever, I guess.
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Terrified, back rigid the young lady held the aircraft arm rests with a death grip. With eyes glazed forward she sat unmoving throughout the entire flight. Did I say young? She was little more than a girl, perhaps a teen. I sat next to my temporary traveling companion and tried conversing with her but she didn't hear or see me. I doubt if she saw anything though her intense concentration.
