With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
2001-11-09 - 12:10 a.m.
One year ago today I started this diary. Of course procrastinator that I am it will probably be after midnight before I finish this. I went back and read that first entry, there really wasn't much there. I didn't think I'd keep this up, I was wrong. I've been pretty good about it. In 365 days I've written 285 entries. Not bad considering I spent a month in the hospital. I actually wrote less than 285 because Carey updated for me when I was in the hospital and Carey and Leah wrote guest entries. Still I've kept with this more than I thought I would. When I read my entries I notice that the protagonist has more than a passing resemblance to me but it isn't quite me. I'm not quite capturing myself. I think if I were an artist I'd have told Mona to really smile and not just smirk.
I was looking at the people who list me as a favourite diary. There are 17 women and only one man. Do you like those odds Lawrence? Perhaps I should inject more estrogen in my entries to cater to my readers.
So what has gone on in this past year? The big news of course was my being sick. For a while Wise Madness was more a medical update than a diary. I'm healthy now though so that should all be in the past. I've gone to lots of concerts of course, 74 according to my Concert Calendar.
I've taken one trip by plane. I visited Lauren in Atlanta and went to Dragoncon while I was there. I've taken eight road trips to visit Carey, one to visit Leah, one to visit Heather and one to visit Shelly. I drove to Frücon with Lisa and Gella, and drove to FRFF with Lisa.
I quit my job with Chez though things still have to be worked out financially with her.
My love life is easy to summarize. I have not had a date in the last year. Any volunteers?
I haven't played very much bridge and have only earned 3.63 masterpoints this year. I really should play more.
Wise Madness has had 3,998 hits since I installed sitemeter. Who will be lucky 4000?
It's now 12:06 AM so I missed the deadline for my anniversary. Well it's still November 8th on the west coast so maybe that's an out.
In the next year you can expect much of the same minus the health reports. I'll give the details of my life as if they were interesting and give my insights into humanity and world events as if they meant something. Thanks for reading me. I wasn't sure if anyone but Carey would read this when I started.
The International Jewish Banking Conspiracy - October 07, 2008
On the Road to Westchester County - October 06, 2008
Inside the Madison Square Studio - October 05, 2008
I'm a Bosniac and I'm debating like I've never debated before - October 03, 2008
Islands in the Stream of Consciousness - October 02, 2008
Email me: GordonLew at gmail
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