Any subject.
If you have one,please post.
We spend to much time pasting time, lets make it worthwhile.

What can't we spend more money on water treatment in third world countries? Only 20% of the populations in some of those places have safe water. Shouldn't preventing disease be first in any plan for health and economic development?

The pursuit of water will actually become a VERY hotly debated political issue in 10-15 years.

In the state of florida, counties are now fighting over it. Worldwide, children are dying at rates unimaginable to it. Even in countries that recieve plenty of rainfall.

- Dip your pizza crust in honey for a tasty treat!

ReturnofDOOK said:

Nevermind.

littlemissG said:

How do you overcome personal prejudices?
We all have them, not necessarily racial.
Class, looks, speech.
Prejudice is prejudgement.
Someone walks in the room and you think slut, bore, ghetto, snotty.
How do you deal?

Found this the other day, a diary entry written while I was taking a break in Hua Hin back in September 2002. Nothing particularly intelligent or insightful, but it was interesting looking back and seeing what I was thinking at that time.


Life is all about cycles. Light times follow dark times if you have the strength and patience to wait for them. But when light times come you have to make the most of them and feel the sun on your face because sorrow, pain and hurt will never be too far away. We want to control life, to get it in our pocket so we can understand it and plan around it, and not feel scared or worried about its unpredictability. But these uneasy feelings are just part of being human. We surely have to find something from our better times to fortify us for our worse times and accept the complete spectrum of life's experiences. To fight against the nature of being human only gives us more pain and worry. To try to turn away from the bad, always desperately searching for the good is to go round in circles. To feel everything from profound joy to the darkest suffering is what being human is about.

... Ate some squid and mussels down at the restaurant on the pier, had a huge argument with Mon about nothing in particular, came back to the room, took a shower in my pyjamas and went to bed...




Ok, as you were.

anyone have the new horrid pics of Whitney Houston?

Now , there's really something to ponder on

I like to move it, move it.




























The world is perception. If you were to watch the world through the eyez of every human on earth...you would be one confused human being

It'z late, sorry.

intelligent comments belong in P&R, not GD...

nevermind edit
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Heiress said:

you call those intelligent comments ( over there ! )

Mach said:

i didn't say they WERE over there... i said they BELONG there. not the same thing!

Fauxie said:

Everything, and I mean everything is cyclical. It's something I've become so aware of. There's emotions, fashion, film-topics, economies...literally everything follows a complete cycle, since there's only so much you can do with anything. I find it interesting.

Spookymuffin said:

True. And the deeper you look the more you find the interdependance of processes, rather than a world full of 'things'. It becomes impossible to consider one process without its opposite, or all the other processes that allow and bring into being that process and its existence by their existence. Furthermore, upon further scrutiny the idea of separate existences for processes or things appears to be a fallacy. All that's left is categorizable ultimately only in an arbitrary way for the necessary convenience of effective interaction, social order and practical human efficiency. All that's left is just what is. To me, if pushed to apply another arbitrary categorizing, I call it all one more 'thing, Tao. If I weren't typing on a website and you were sitting next to me I might demonstrate it simply by knocking my teapot off the table.

Note: No 'thing' has inherent independent existence, therefore can exist only in a conventional dependent sense in relation to all else that exists similarly. Therein lies the difficulty in positing the idea of things as opposed to processes.

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Spookymuffin said:

what? Bitch, you don't even remember the 80s!

Not my own thoughts, but still...



As soon as you're born they make you feel small,
By giving you no time instead of it all,
Till the pain is so big you feel nothing at all,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
They hurt you at home and they hit you at school,
They hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool,
Till you're so fucking crazy you can't follow their rules,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
When they've tortured and scared you for twenty odd years,
Then they expect you to pick a career,
When you can't really function you're so full of fear,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV,
And you think you're so clever and classless and free,
But you're still fucking peasents as far as I can see,
A working class hero is something to be,
A working class hero is something to be.
There's room at the top they are telling you still,
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
If you want to be like the folks on the hill,
A working class hero is something to be.
A working class hero is something to be.
If you want to be a hero well just follow me,
If you want to be a hero well just follow me.

how much wood

would a wood chuck chuck

if a wood chuck

could chuck

wood


?

littlemissG said:

I usually stop myself whenever I start thinking like that. I step away from myself for a minute and start with a clean slate. I don't have to do it too much because in my lifetime, stereotypes and prejudices have been proven wrong, sometimes they have shocked the hell out of me.


M

Fauxie said:

Let's start the Org Philosophers Guild.