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SUPERMARKET MADNESS 1 Reply
It seems every time you finally know where to locate an item in your local supermarket,it gets moved again. Who are these non store employees that block the aisles with milk crates and shopping…Continue
Started by Mark Joel Lane. Last reply by CaliforniaNow Jan 29, 2013.
I MUST BE AT THE WRONG TABLE 1 Reply
On a recent Saturday evening, my wife and I attended a bar-mitzvah reception at a Long Island restaurant/caterer. Our table seating card read Table NO.2 where we were seated with a bunch of strangers…Continue
Started by Mark Joel Lane. Last reply by The Wolfdancer Jan 16, 2013.
Mayor Cancels Halloween
With the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Bloomberg of New York City has canceled Halloween. This way trick-or-treaters won't be meandering around in darkness or avoiding fallen trees and other…Continue
Started by Mark Joel Lane Dec 29, 2012.
GETTING OUT OF JURY DUTY IS GRAND
The sales and marketing company I work for encourages employees to do their civic duties.I work on a retail merchandising team. But when I was selected to serve as grand juror in Queens,NY for 2…Continue
Started by Mark Joel Lane Dec 29, 2012.
Voila Allah 2 Replies
Voila AllahSo now they've targeted world cup revelers. Honestly. What gives? Could it be Allah does not allow for a shred of fun? What a miserable god.Continue
Started by Michael J Masiko. Last reply by Baia Jul 12, 2010.
If you had a choice of what ethnic group to be born into, which one would it be? why? 5 Replies
If you had a choice of what ethnic group to be born into, which one would it be? why?"We are unique in this country in the way we describe and define race and ascribe to it characteristics that other…Continue
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Started by Maricel Evasco. Last reply by Steven Macon Jun 25, 2010.
What are your thoughts about metaphysics? 3 Replies
What are your thoughts about metaphysics?truth and subjective Realitypsychic capacityPhysical vs. Non-Physical Realityspiritualityreligiosityyogacreative…Continue
Tags: metaphysics
Started by Maricel Evasco. Last reply by Maricel Evasco Jun 19, 2010.
Can you find beauty in the mundane? 2 Replies
I believe that in order to savor life to the fullest we must appreciate the mundane as well as the extraordinary because the only difference between the two is a matter of perception.Continue
Started by Maricel Evasco. Last reply by Snagg May 27, 2010.
NeanderDNA 3 Replies
this just in; Neanderthal in Our DNA! there's a question? seeing cereal boxes opened as tho without opposable thumbs is proof enough for Me.Continue
Started by Michael J Masiko. Last reply by Maricel Evasco May 23, 2010.
What events, circumstances, or experiences with people have made you a stronger person? 4 Replies
What events, circumstances, or experiences with people have made you a stronger person?Continue
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Started by Maricel Evasco. Last reply by Maricel Evasco May 23, 2010.
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Comment by Maricel Evasco on March 29, 2010 at 7:40am
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CARRYING CAPACITY
A man said to the universe
"Sir, I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
- Stephen Crane, 1899
So spoke the poet, at century's end;
And in those dour days when schools displayed the world,
"Warts and all," to their reluctant learners,
These lines thrust through the layers of wishfulness,
Forming the minds that later found them to be true.
All that is past, now.
Original sin, then mere personal ego,
Open to the shafts of consciousness,
Now flourishes as an ego of the tribe
Whose battle cry (which none dare question) is
"Justice" - But hear the poet's shade
A tribe said to the universe,
"Sir, we exist!"
"So I see," said the universe,
"But your multitude creates in me
No feeling of obligation.
"Need creates right, you say? Your need, your right?
Have you forgot we're married?
Humanity and universe - Holy, indissoluble pair!
Nothing you can do escapes my vigilant response.
"Dam my rivers and I'll salt your crops;
Cut my trees and I'll flood your plains.
Kill �pests' and, by God, you'll get a silent spring!
Go ahead - save every last baby's life!
I'll starve the lot of them later,
When they can savor to the full
The exquisite justice of truth's retribution.
Wrench from my earth those exponential powers
No wobbling Willie should e'er be trusted with
Do this, and a million masks of envy shall create
A hell of blackmail and tribal wars
From which civilization will never recover.
"Don't speak to me of shortage. My world is vast
And has more than enough - for no more than enough.
There is a shortage of nothing, save will and wisdom;
But there is a longage of people.
"Hubris - that was the Greeks' word for what ails you.
Pride fueled the pyres of tragedy
Which died (some say) with Shakespeare.
O, incredible delusion! That potency should have no limits!
�We believe no evil �til the evil's done' -
Witness the deserts' march across the earth,
Spawned and nourished by men who whine,
�Abnormal weather.'
Nearly as absurd as crying, �Abnormal universe!'...
But I suppose you'll be saying that next.
"Ravish capacity reap consequences.
Man claims the first a duty and calls what follows
Tragedy.
Insult ... Backlash. Not even the universe can break
This primal link. Who, then, has the power
To put an end to tragedy?
Only those who recognize hubris in themselves."
Garrett Hardin, Ph.D.
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/artman2/publish/tsc1504/article_13...
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Comment by Dazzling Zoomer Gal Diana on March 26, 2010 at 6:55pm
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This made me chuckle......and I needed that chuckle.
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INITIAL
Out of infinite longings rise
finite deeds like weak fountains,
falling back just in time and trembling.
And yet, what otherwise remains silent,
our happy energies—show themselves
in these dancing tears.
~Rainer Maria Rilke
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Maybe you could do it for Kunitz's other poem: "The Layers." That is another very beautiful poem.
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Daddieo, welcome aboard. I look so forward to seeing your photography. You should do a yourtube slide show presentation of photos for an eloquent poem read out loud by you or someone else....much like the Kunitz presentation below: "Touch Me."
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