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.
July 17, 2005 - 12:42 a.m.
Nobody has been reading my diary. Is everyone busy reading Harry Potter? I really liked my last two entries, they go well with each other and revealed my inner feelings. They might give the impression that I’m having mood swings but I’m not. Even when I was feeling bad like on Friday I was totally aware of the good things in my life. When I felt better on Saturday I didn’t forget the things that were making me sad. There are some things that I’m very grateful for. There are also important needs that are not being filled. There are times I step into emotional pitfalls and the missing needs are not there to break my fall.
It is my birthday on Tuesday. I don’t have anything too special planned. My mother is going to take me out to my favorite restaurant, Uncle Jack’s for lunch. Alison will join us if she can. I’m going to the Met game that night. Not really for my birthday, it is part of the package we bought at the beginning of the season. I used to go to plan on going to games on my birthday during the eighties. I’d go with Lauren unless there was something more special happening that day. Alan can probably tell you what the Mets did on my birthday almost any year. I have no idea. The only time I remember is when Alan surprised me by inviting Aubrey and his wife on my birthday to celebrate.
I’m wasting my birthday material now, what am I going to do on my actual birthday?
The release of Harry Potter and the Half Wit Prince got me thinking about all the book series that I collect. Most of them are old of course. I’d be interested to hear from anyone that’s read any of them other than Discworld and H2G2 which I know a lot of you like.
- Alexander Dumas – Three Musketeers
- Arthur C. Clarke – 2001
- Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
- C.S. Forester – Hornblower
- Douglas Adams – Hitchhiker’s Guide
- E.E. “Doc” Smith – Lensman
- E.E. “Doc” Smith – Skylark
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Earth’s Core
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Mars
- Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan
- Frank Herbert – Dune
- Frederick Pohl – Heechee
- Fritz Leiber – Swords
- H. Rider Haggard – She
- H.P. Lovecraft – Cthulhu Mythos
- Isaac Asimov – Foundation
- James Branch Cabell – Biography of Manuel
- L. Frank Baum – Oz
- Larry Niven – Tales of Known Space
- Phillip Jose Farmer – Riverworld
- Robert E. Howard – Conan
- Terry Pratchett – Discworld
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