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Posted by Butch on 3/14/2008, 8:00 am, in reply to "Fourteenth bi-weekly golden catflap awards sponsored by adult diapers 'for the inner child'"
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Friends,
Guess what, they got cyberspace out here in space. I can still communicate with you via the Internet when there isn't too much solar activity. Lucky you.
Quite a view from here. Very holistic perspective of Earth. From here all is indeed a unitive one. I don't see any lines drawn between one area and another. All I see are areas of confluence between one aspect of Earth and another. Mountain ranges, beaches, and such. Very metaphysical from up here.
If I were an Alien that had never been on Earth before I would think I had just found Heaven. But we know better. There is something wrong with our world today, you can see it in our eyes. We're livin' on the edge and there are those among us doing everything they can to get us to go over it.
People that have given up on their own lives and want everyone else to join them. Misery loves company. And yet, this isn't the worst of it. There are those that simply want to get other people to go over the edge so they can have more. Instigators. It does no good to placate such types. They are incorrigable. Such types constantly belittle and criticize every little imperfection they see in others. And when this is brought to their attention they feign sincerity by pointing out that they are imperfect as well. That they don't mean anything by being mean spirited.
These types of people have always been around, or so it seems to me. What is amazing is that there are so many willing to encourage such negativity. All in the name of freedom of speech... What about the responsibility that goes along with freedom of speech. Can we really say we believe in freedom of speech if we don't link it to responsibility?
All I know is about such matters is when we allow people to yell fire in a crowded theater we encourage them to do it again, and again, and again. All the while hoping they will get tired of being irresponsible. But some people never weary of being selfish. They just become more and more selfish, unless checked by others.
What was that? Sorry gotta go, the Space Station has regular maintenance that has to be done and I must take my turn. No free rides on the Space Station. Everyone pulls their weight. Or they are sent packing. Unlike places in cyberspace that threaten the responsible as well as the irresponsible with banishment, here it is only the irresponsible that are singled out for deportation. Funny how things are so much different up here than down there.
If the shoe fits, wear it.
Butch
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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