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 13, 2009 - 1:01 a.m.
I did not get much sleep last night so I'm falling asleep now, the perfect condition for a well reasoned entry.
This is going to be one of my "this is what I'm thinking about at the moment" entries.
Yesterday I wrote about the Zero Milestone. I remembered in great detail an inside joke from 17 or so years ago. This from someone that can't remember what happened a few minutes ago. What did happen a few minutes ago? I have no idea. What was I going to write about? Oh yes. Good thing I wrote it down.
So why do I remember it after all these years? I love inside jokes; they bind people together. It separates the world into two pieces, the inside and you get closer to the others inside. When we went to see Paul and Storm last week I thought about a Da Vinci's Notebook show that I saw with Carey that pretty much consisted of nothing but inside jokes. The band always said, "The jokes aren't always for you." The thing is at that show the jokes weren't for them. They didn't get them. They were inside jokes between Carey and me. Through a series of coincidences it seems that everything they did that night referenced something that we joked about. Since we had spent the last two or three days together and drove down to Annapolis from New York, we had plenty of material. The most bizarre was we joked about them being French and they sang The Marseilles. It wasn't like that was a regular thing. That was the first time they ever sang it.
What is it with me and people named Carey and inside jokes. The two Careys are thee friends I have the most inside jokes with. I can have conversations with either of them that no one else could ever follow.
Every time I do a lot of timing I think about writing about the drivers I encounter on the trip and my pet driving peeve. By the time I'm done with the trip I have so much to write about that I never get around to it. I'll do it now.
Why do people have so much trouble with the concept of stay right/pass left? It isn't like it's Quantum Chromodynamics. You stay on the right lane unless you are passing someone. When there are more than two lanes each lane should be traveling faster than the lane to the right. It is amazing how many people can't get that. I had one friend that used to get on an expressway and move right to the middle lane then travel slower than the people in the right lane. I asked him why. The answer was that he was not a confident driver. The people coming in the entrances made him nervous in the right lane but so did driving fast. So he would go into the middle lane and force everyone to pass him on both sides and disrupt traffic.
I see people do that all the time. The other day someone got on a highway in front of me. The speed limit was 50. He moved right into the middle lane in front of me and went 40. I had to hit my break to not run into him. It didn't even occur to him to slip in behind me.
Some people think they are in a race. If you signal that you want to move into the lane to your left the accelerate to block you even though they can't maintain a higher speed because there is a car in front of them. That doesn't matter. What matters is that they are ahead of you.
The most annoying are the people that think they are supposed to go at the same speed as whoever is next to them. If someone is passing them on the left it makes them think they are going to slow so they speed up. I've had situations where are car is going 60 where the speed limit is 65 but when I went to pass them they sped up to 80.
When they are in the left lane they travel fine until they come up to a slower car in the right lane. They then exactly match it's speed so that nobody can pass either of them.
If they eventually pass the car and you try to then pass them on the right they speed up so you can't and the process is repeated next time they catch up to someone on the right.
We really need a law that anyone who does that has their license instantly revoked. Their ritual sacrifice would be nice but not 100% necessary. Maybe just in the holiday season to make it more festive.
Now I’m going to go to bed. Was this entry at all coherent?
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