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.
November 08, 2009 - 10:31 a.m.
Lena's in the shower so I have time to write this. Of course it would be more efficient if we showered together. Not only would we save time but because we'd use less hot water we'd create less green house gasses. I calculated the effect of taking separate showers and determined that the environmental effects would kill 937,432 people in Bangladesh alone. Lena was unmoved. I have a clean conscience, I did the best I could.
Yesterday after I made breakfast we spent the day in Manhattan. Our first stop was one of my favorite places in the City, The 5th Avenue Branch of the New York Public Library. 
It is one of the place's I fantasize living in. It's one of the great realizations of the democratic ideal. Here is the magnificent palace build not for royalty or the wealthy but for any person questing for knowledge. I love that as you walk to the Main Reading room you pass a Gutenberg Bible. Most people are totally oblivious to it. You don't expect to see a great work of art while you are on your way to give the librarian a slip with your book's call number on it. Lena's mother is a Librarian and she lives libraries so it was about time I took her there. Too bad I forgot my camera. That photo is from the Wikimedia Commons.
The holiday market is already open at Bryant Park. We went through that and watched a synchronized skating exhibition at the skating rink. Then we started walking south. Our eventual goal was The Living Room but we had miles to go before we sleep. Well not really, we had shopping and eating to do. Lena needed jeans, and a hat and a belt and found them all. We walked down Sixth Avenue to 8th street, crossed to the East Village. We at the Taj Mahal, one of the Indian Restaurants on Sixth Street. Then we went to Alphabets, one of the greatest stores on earth, then finally to the Living Room.
We were there to see Deni Bonet. I was disappointed I couldn't talk into any new friends into going but Lori not LORi and her friends Dawn and Patrick were back and they brought Dawn's sister Catherine with them.
Deni put on her usual great show and unveiled a new song with a Celtic sound. My reaction was "Fairport Convention." I was happy to hear that was intentional.
This morning while getting ready I broke my French Press. I’m in morning. I'm going to buy a new one today as I need my morning coffee. Our main plan is to go to the Bronx Zoo in the day and to see Pat Wictor Tonight. In between I'm going to cook dinner. None of this will happen if I don't get going.
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More Choices - November 11, 2009
Choice Advice - November 10, 2009
Lead Us Not Into Penn Station - November 09, 2009
It's All Happening at the Zoo - November 09, 2009
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