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.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
August 06, 2009 - 5:51 p.m.
It's 5:25 PM on Thursday and I'm updating. Why is that odd? Because I said that I'd be at the WFUV volunteer party now. Why aren't I there? Because the party is next week. Good thing I wrote to John Platt and said, "Aren't I going to see you tonight at the party?" He set me straight. I really isn't easy not having a brain. I wonder what it's like to have one. Is it as wonderful as I imagine? Can people really keep a thought in their head for more than 5 minutes at a time? Can they know what their schedule is for tomorrow? I'm sorry but I can't believe that anyone can know what they are doing the day after tomorrow. People are just making fun of me when they say they can do that; right? It must be so nice to remember things like people's names and if you like them or not. To not panic every five minutes because you can't find the thing you put down four minutes ago. To walk into a room and know why you walked in there. To not have to go back in the house 5 times every time you leave because you keep forgetting things, and then forget the thing you went back for. I hope you wake up every day and say, I’m grateful that I have a brain.
I had another idiot story to tell you. I forgot what it was.
Today I'm doing Falcon Ridge business. I emailed out my thank yous to all the artist that performed. Why didn't I remember that it takes hours? It wouldn't if I had a decent computer. I edited the photos and decided which to post on line. I actually uploaded all of them in one album. My plan was to them move them to the appropriate ones. The flaw in that plan is that the way the Picasa website works that has to be done one photo at a time and I have to reload the page I uploaded to after each move. So I deleted the entire album and I'm now uploading them an album at a time. For the first time I've devoted an album to things that happened off the stages. I took more pictures of the Falcon Ridge street life than ever before. I always say that I'm going to do that and I actually did.
I got a call today from the Transit Authority. They are investigating the incident with the bigoted bus driver. It seems that this wasn't a case of a guy having a bad day and reacting to it poorly. He has a history of this kind of thing. As the gentleman I spoke to said; "He isn't cut out for this kind of work." This was the last straw. Once I told him that I would be willing to testify they decided to go to the wall with him. I am so pleased to find that they are as outraged as I am.
I wish there was a way the driver could learn from this but it isn't likely. I'm sure the way that he'll tell the story is that a white guy doesn't stand a chance against the chinks and kikes and niggers who ganged up on him. Should the racist terms be capitalized? If I said, Chinese, Jews, and Blacks, I would. It didn't look right when I wrote it that way so I got rid of the capitals. Is that the right "capital?" I never learned that one. I do know that the principal of your school is your pal.
It is much cooler today so I decided to take a hot bath to loosen up my rehabbing left elbow. That was a great idea till when I tried to sit down in the bath all my weight ended up on left arm. I was lucky it didn't even hurt too much. I could have reopened the fracture. I am being careful and wearing the elbow brace. I think that's wise for now.
I know I promised to write about ideas today but you are going to have to settle for the paragraph I wrote about how I think the bus driver will take it. That is actually quite a bit to think about.
One more thing to think about. Today is the 65th anniversary of the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Sunday will be the anniversary of the one on Nagasaki. I am always aware of those dates, August 6 and 9.
Failing at Passing - August 13, 2009
A Brief History of the Zero Milestone - August 12, 2009
Unpopular Entries - August 11, 2009
The Big Muddy (feet) - August 10, 2009
It wasn't as hot as hell in Philadelphia - August 09, 2009
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