I dont know if this counts as an addiction...but I do like my greenstuff, its kinda like my evening brandy, its not the be all and end all of my existance and I can and do do without it often enough...but i do enjoy it
no need for cevership in here...lol I drive a dodge caravan...grocery getter, kid hauler, etc would love something a little better on gas...not much inot the fancy stuff, but something newer would be nice
I have 3 cats (1 belonging to my ex wife ) In the past ive had many...i'm particularly fond of reptiles I used to breed snakes (WITH OTHER SNAKES BEFORE ANY SMARTASSES CHIME IN..LOL)...and later collected lizards...my favorite was a basilisk...he was mean as hell but cool to watch
not intentionaly....I have alopecia totialis....basicly...my imune system attacked my hair follicals and shut them down when it firststarted thinning i just assumed it was normal male pattern baldness..i dealt with it...didnt like it...but i just hoped it owuldnt be too bad...however as it progressed and started to affect things like my eyelashes and eyebrows...i got really scared so I went to the doctors...was relieved it wasnt anything life threatening, but still devistated because as it progressed its started to look hideous...I was proud of my hair (anyone who looks at my profile pics can see why...lol). So tired of the patchy spots I had left on my head, i decided the best course was to shave what was left and i got used to it...the the 80's are over anyway right?
never myself, except for ciggarettes...but ive had plent of close friends who have and Ive seen the ugly results...i know on at least some level how hard it is to come out of that and what it means to someone to overcome that
truthfully, I love where I live....not just the country...but my state and hometown...i like the quiet, i know just about everybody...they know me, my kids etc (that has been extremely valuable in raising them...they coudlnt get away with much) its rural but not too far from larger areas...the people mostly have the values I hold important, I like the sense of community...it just feels like home. My only complaint is climate...summers up here are so short and winters are so long and WAY too cold....i'd like all of this with the climate of say...brazill, im one of those nuts that likes hot humid weather
next: consciousness is almost a paradox...something abstract and not made up of anything but is as solid and real as we who carry it both individualy and collectively, does collective consiousness exist? i believe so, at what level I cannot say, the brain is an amazing thing...as a physician, you know its all about electtrical impulses within it and you also know we know very little about it....from a scienctific standpoint, who is to say that these impulses arent generated in a fasion as well that allows them to connect to others, could esp be as simple as one "electrical devise" communicating or interfering with another? The observer and observed are each their own and oposite each other...as well as interchangable, its all about perception, as we know...beauty is in the eye of the beholder....each can be a beholder and behldee. we all know thatin a crime scene...20 witnesses will have 20 different accounts of what happens. We never see ourselves as others do...impossible...were on the inside...if you were in your house 24/7 you could not say what the outside looked like, likewise someone standing outside in your yard could not say what it looks like inside but could give a good account on what they themselves see as could you with what you see and know to be true on the inside
jeese...thanx for keeping it simple.... ...lol lets see....the first one first: Actualy I used to be fairly left, till around the early 90's I think as I got older I examined my views on things one by one and tried to explain to myself in depth why I felt the wasy I did about them...and found in alot of cases (not all) I couldnt, So I disected them and just started one by one seeing them in what I thought was a practical light...example:
**statement,(exagerated a bit for demonstration purposes)**
"the governtment should provide everything for its people"
ok....sounds great...someone to make sure I have what I needed to survive, seemed the right thing and the "nice" thing for a government to do however.....if the government is taking care of you...they own you...the more of your life they're involved in, the more controll they have over you. also, who is going to pay for all these programs? taxes...so more programs=more taxes, more taxes= less income for me to keep...more programs=more government agenceies=bigger and more bloated government=more expensive government also...i feel it creates an environment of apathy, if the government is taking care of me, why should I worry about it? I dont need to provide for myself...apathy breeds more control of your own life.. I rather feel its the governments responability to creat an environment where the individual ahs more oppertunity to succeed...lower taxes on bussiness may make it easier for them to hire more people....presto..more jobs=more income for people...less regulation (within reason)means an easier environment for business to flurish
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ouch!I'd just burry the thing then...its cursed