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.
September 10, 2009 - 12:57 a.m.
No, I'm not sick. The reason I didn't update this morning is that I was teaching. It was the first day of school. I needed to get up early this morning for the first time in ages. I have also been having trouble sleeping so I did something I hardly ever do. I took an Ambien before I went to bed. It worked but I think it effected my dreams. I woke up in the middle of the night, that's not supposed to happen with the time release Ambien CR. When I did my first thought was that I had been up all night. I then realized that I hadn't. Not only that but I had that post dream good feeling. I just had no memory of the dream. I did feel pressure in my intestines. The food was having trouble getting through. It didn't hurt at all but it was uncomfortable. I did fall back asleep and got up 5 minutes before the alarm was going to go off. Once again I had that nice feeling you have after a good dream but no memory of what it was.
I made it to school about 20 minutes before class. That was not enough time to log into my account on the computer and print out my course outline. My school computer is worse than my one at home.
Both my classes went nicely. They always do at the start of the semester. I'm funny and they laugh and the material is easy. It doesn't get rough till the material is challenging and they have to work hard.
Notice that I didn't say, "I think that I'm funny?" I get enough laughs that I think I can consider it objective truth. Of course there is that study that showed how people laugh more at jokes told by their bosses, teachers, and people in authority.
I was going to update between classes but I spent that time trying to log onto my school's website. It said that I had used too many wrong passwords, was locked out, and to check with the administrator but the administrator said that it showed that I wasn't locked out. After a bit it let me in and someone from the help desk took over my computer and changed the password. I had it in the computer's memory but not my own. The problem was I was trying to log on with Netscape and it was stored in Firefox. It was actually stored in Netscape too but I didn't see how to access that till it was too late.
The help desk guy was tearing his hair out trying to deal with my super slow computer. It's pretty much unusable but I can't get a new one. I'm lobbying anyone who can help.
After school I went shoe shopping. I went to my usual shoe store and had amazing luck. I tried on one pair of shoes for school and one for casual and they both fit. I never can wear the first pair I try. I have hard to fit feet. This was a miracle. Not only that but there was a sale going on; buy one pair and the second is half price. I got a pair of Clarks and a pair of Rockports.
I did something I never do tonight. I watched Obama's speech. This promised to be substantial, I wanted to hear what he proposed. It wasn't bad. My favorite part was straight out calling people that warned of death panels as liars. Without mentioning her name he called Palin out.
I ate like a pig today. I haven't been able to do that for days and I was hungry. I'm feeling some tightness now but I'm not in pain. Maybe the speech will do some good and I'll get covered and get things taken care of.
The Joy of Cooking (for those that can't cook) - September 15, 2009
Take me to Take Me To The River - September 14, 2009
At Least I Didn't Trip Over the Ottoman - September 13, 2009
There is no Deni-ing Pinataland - September 12, 2009
Idiot Story LXXXVIII - September 11, 2009
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