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Archive for November, 2008

Why we fight?

Someone once asked me if I had PTSD.  Why yes I do.  Have I sought therapy for it?  Nope.  Am I going to?  Nope.  Why?  Well let me tell you a story…
Afghanistan is a bad place.  I consider it a 5th world country, none of that 3rd world bull.  Yes, it’s that bad.  
So there [...]

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And I give you…

God and the Devil were talking one day.  God said he made all “good” things.  The Devil said he could corrupt anything. 
God said, “True Love.”  The Devil said, “Jealousy.”
God said, “Chocolate.”  The Devil said “High cholesterol.”
God said, “Sunny days.”  The Devil said “Melanoma.”
They went on and on for hours…
Finally God said, “Truth!” thinking that [...]

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Reacting to trauma
It may not be the first thing, it may not be the last thing, but it always happens when someone is confronted with a traumatic situation.  Attribute the problem.  Something bad happened and the mind has to understand the why.  How this is attributed, the why it happened, makes a huge difference in [...]

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The first time someone tried to sell me… someone.
I was in Thailand.  It was a rough job.  I slept on the beach in a hammock for 5 weeks.  The local kids taught me how to dive in the ocean.  I spent a lot of time in the water (that I later learned had a problem [...]

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Proposition 8 and involvement of churches in lobbying.
I see two issues here.  The first is the confusion of what an organization has the right to do vs. what an individual has the right to do.  The second is the failure to maintain a separation of church and state.
The person at the pulpit has the right to [...]

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Imagine a rubber band sitting next to a ruler.  Its placement along the ruler appears random but with all things chaotic there is a pattern.  What is the potential of this rubber band?  What is it capable of?  What will it do?  On the ruler many things are written.  Nobel Prize winner could be written [...]

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Hello world!

So I made a list of things I want to write about.  It’s mostly for myself, but I do like feedback and conversation with others.  Katherine likes to dump things out on paper so it can’t be all bad.  I’m bored and far from home.  I’ll give it a try.

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