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.
2002-05-22 - 11:30 a.m.
I apologize to anyone who was worried about me. I should have updated when I got home from the doctor yesterday. He isn't sure but he thinks my problem is neither Crohn's nor cancer. He thinks it is a lack of bile salts, a side effect of the surgery. In a healthy person the bile salts after helping to digest the fat are reabsorbed in the small intestine. Mine is two feet short so it is passing through me. He gave me a prescription for this powder that I have to dissolve in water or juice that will replenish the salts. It isn't the most pleasant thing to drink but if it helps then it's worth it. Just to make sure he ordered some lab work but he thinks that is the problem.
That was my big news for the day of course. Now how do I fill the rest of my entry? I didn't really do anything else and I used up all my philosophical stuff yesterday.
I did watch the season finale of Buffy. It was one of the best episodes of the season but that isn't saying much. The highlight for me was when Buffy brought Giles up to speed on what had happened since he left this season and he burst out laughing because it is all so ridiculous. I hope it stops being a soap opera next year. I've had enough of that.
Yesterday's entry was twice as long as my average one but I still forgot to put a few things in it. I'll do that now.
When Stephen Jay Gould was first diagnosed with cancer 20 years ago he was told that the median survival time was 8 months. His reaction was, "half the people live less than eight months, that means half live more than eight months. They might live lots more than eight months." That is so much like the way I like to react. You can find solace in statistics.
I've never understood why Annie Golden isn't more successful. She has a great voice, a dynamic personality and is super cute. I'm not just saying that because she's an Irish redhead. When she was part of Golden Carillo I enjoyed their shows as much as anyone, including Früvous.
I don't know what's happened to Frank. I used to see him play solo for a while but he has fallen off my radar. He was great too. He is a great guitarist and songwriter and a really good singer. His looks contrasted so much with his manner. His looks like a street tough but his manner was that of a college professor.
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