Monthly Archives: March 2011

March 20, 2011

Break Time

Live just got much busier for me.  Consequently, I need to take a break from blogging to catch up with some matters both business and personal.  I hope to be back to blogging within a week.

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March 17, 2011

Why Women Sometimes Become Addicted to Abusive Partners

Have you ever wondered why anyone might become addicted to an abusive partner and simply cannot leave them for long? As most adults know, a lot of women seem to have a great deal of emotional difficulty leaving an abusive … Continue reading →

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March 15, 2011

Your Favorite Post Comments?

For the past week or two, I’ve been wondering what folk’s favorite post comments are?  Not just comments they’ve read on this blog, but comments they’ve read on any blog?  And not just comments they themselves have posted, but anyone’s … Continue reading →

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March 15, 2011

Religiosity vs. Spirituality

Most of us at one time or another have made the mistake of assuming that religions primarily exist to cultivate and promote human spirituality.  But that is not true.  Religions deal with spirituality primarily by distracting, insulating, and misleading people.  … Continue reading →

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Filed under Delusion, Liars Lies and Lying, Religion, Spirituality

March 15, 2011

Well, At Least He’s Saved His Eternal Soul

I do not know if there is such a thing as reincarnation.  I don’t think any of us really knows.  But I do know that, now and then, we meet someone we have such an affinity for, it might seem … Continue reading →

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March 13, 2011

Prostitution vs. Murder

Some long time ago, I lived in a college town.  The town had a population of around 100,000 people, and about 35,000 of those people were students and faculty.  The town also had a handful of whore houses.  They called … Continue reading →

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March 11, 2011

Some Words for Tara Lynn (Part One: The Catalyst)

“While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw…”. – Black Elk Tara Lynn used to work with me in a small business I owned and operated some years ago.  I … Continue reading →

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March 11, 2011

Some Words for Tara Lynn (Part Two: Linen Sky)

I bought some flowers today and gave them to a simple vase.   Later, I looked across the city to the mountains, which in the evening’s light, seemed like sheets thrown down from a linen sky. Some years ago, my ex-secretary … Continue reading →

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March 11, 2011

Learning to Read the Map Better?

Religions are maps. They are not the terrain. People get attached to religions, though. Then they spend their lives trying to experience the terrain by learning to read the map better.

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March 11, 2011

Striving for Enlightenment?

Striving for enlightenment isn’t supposed to make you a social retard. – Keshin

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March 10, 2011

Your Entertainment or Your Life?

Suppose — suppose just for the sake of supposing things — that one of the ancient goddesses descended from the mountain with the alarming news that you were to pick one dozen — and no more than one dozen — … Continue reading →

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March 8, 2011

A River’s Current

There are some things about a small town, or a small community, that perhaps would have been understood by nearly everyone on earth 200 years ago, when nearly everyone on earth lived in small, well-knit communities. One of those things … Continue reading →

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