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perhaps in your eyes.. spirituality is only in the eye of the beholder.. just another thought.. :)

well, yes. along with a nightly commentary, at 7pm.

How about.. "do no harm" ? that's the thought that keeps coming to me.. the "strange" thing.. it seems to be a reoccuring theme in many beliefs.. few seem to live up to it that I've observed..

maybe my point is.. "don't pick on the sixties". they may have been days of being "screwed up".. but not "unparalleled" in human history or anything.. I was just a little too young at the time..

The more I think about it.. the more I have issues with the sixties reference.. it's almost like.. you've manufactured a "problem" and "solution" in one line.. drugs? They have been a "problem" since.. who knows when.. before lsd, there was a lot of "stuff" they used for divination and such.. if it wasn't for tv, and the nightly news, Leary wouldn't have had anywhere near the following that he did.. well.. it's just a thought. The media could have just have let sleeping dogs lie.. but NOOOO.. the very icon of "rebellion" (in many people's eyes) has followers and such splashed on the nightly news at 7pm.. So was it a time fraught with moral decay? I don't think so.. I think it was blown far out of proportion.. Promiscuity? How about a time.. when a "lady" dresses herself up as a prostitute.. and "does business" with her father in law..? and it was during a time, far far before the sixties.. Just a few thoughts.

I don't know how much I agree.. I would modify the former statement. Perhaps the sixties were fraught with moral decay, not too much unlike generations and other decades past. With America's development of television, no nook or cranny of moral decay seemed to remain as safe and excluded as it once did.. developments in technology in the forties and fifties brought battles in Vietnam, scenes of protest in every street, and the like to the living room of "everday" "normal" Americans, and others who had the capacity to view the same images. I'll have to think about the rest of your post..

if you don't count rosie's cats, the innies "non serious" pets like goldfish, guinea pigs, hamster.. it's probably closer to 1497..

don't the "directors" vote themselves in? I thought they had some kind of majority rule.. once in, like.. a majority of could vote a "member" off.. unless the new subservient vice presidents can't vote or something.. just glorified lackies and gofers for the top three.. I think it's more like a tag team consisting primarily overweight, aging.. what's the word.. it'll come to me.. but they've "tag teamed" the top positions of the organization for how long now.. honor among "thieves" works I guess.. and once you're "in", You're IN. Unless one's behavior threatens the other "members" with possible criminal prosecution, or just don't have the stomach for the job. Look what it took to oust the loyster.. they were content to just swat his little hands, and say be a good boy.. I think it's more like a club..

about 3/4 of a year ago, I took my old loose leaf oxford.. took a deep breath, and sent it to the landfil. It had whole class sylabi transcribed in it, most of pfal, etc. etc.. it was the last item I had with any way theology transcribed in it..

that's the "odor" I detect in jl's pathetic "da way-it was" letter.. "sure, it was abusive, doctrinally and practically 'screwed up', but for a brief MOMENT.. *we* were part of da most significant MOVE of gawd since the first century." the "pathetic" part about it was, *we* didn't "win" some kind of game.. his little "winning moves" were marked foul.. not that there would be a significantly different outcome if they weren't.. I think if it was anything he "won", it was a ruling seat in an abusive organization.. chosen out of all of the rest of the drones..

for a "fair and balanced" supposed review of everything da way, the site doesn't seem to offer much, other than whoever the guy is giving the vicster's stolen goods five stars.. whatever that means..

it's not money.. it's numbers on a hard drive somewhere.. :) you can bet all my numbers, zeros (the few that there are) and all..

I'm not sure about the last name.. but I knew them as Chip and Bonnie. Michigan, 198something.. Chip got a masters degree (I think) at CMU.. then herr way moved him far west..

we need something like a Jubilee.. then time to rebuild.. I hope this is it.. :)

I saw a picture like that once.. but it was a lot more blue.. kinda blinding in the middle.. I hope this 28th year is a call to "family".. everybody needs one..

when the kids in Numerical Analysis were crying about having to do some series, or integration by parts.. or Newton's method.. I knew it like the back of my hand.. I can say "kids".. heheh. That was what these classes were like.. a fifty year old hippy, and twenty some young kids.. My class in Real Analysis was fun.. the professor was absolutely brilliant.. some of the students were rather disappointed though.. he gave little feedback. It came, but not in what they thought was a timely manner.. but it was a 400 level class. What does one expect? I figure a lot of grad level classes will be like that.. I hear some give you something to work on.. like projects and stuff.. and sometimes, if you don't figure it out, you'll NEVER know the answer..

Hey.. if you have a passion for it, why not? Sounds like you have an advantage at the starting gate, like I did.. I studied and understood Calculus I, II and III before I set foot in a classroom.. learned it on my own.. but it's a big world, there's lots more..

Cripe.. ya wanna be a lawyer.. BE A FRIGGIN LAWYER..

*boo hoo.. it's just another set of hoops to jump through..* and I'll add.. INFINITELY more difficult, that sitting through the latest "miracle" class.. what kind of "hoops".. Learn how to read, understand, analyze, and logically comment on literature.. Learn how to actually research, properly document, and write in a way people can actually understand you.. Learn enough math to actually have no excuse for being short-changed at the lunch counter, or supermarket.. or be forced to pay someone to crunch the numbers, STILL not knowing if the numbers are "honest".. learn at least one foreign language. At least enough, that if one is lost, to ask the locals "donde es la servesa" or something.. learn enough about world conditions, that one is well aware of the names of those who their newfangled high tech gadget will disenfranchise.. honestly.. as far as "education" is concerned.. twi left us far worse off than "short changed"..

I still wonder about the little book though. Is it still there? Or is the embarassment that 99 percent of the names of those who (practically) broke their backs contributing to that particular construction project are people loy castigated/marked and avoided/purged/whatever, that they've felt justified removing it from public display? Just wonder..

I mean.. really.. you're "passionate" about scumbags getting a fair shake and all.. I got into this math and science thing thinking I'd make some kind of difference.. believe me, it's not for the money.. I can think of a few ways to (positively) motivate students to learn math.. I just happen to like the subject.. what's the difference here, wd? Wanna make a real, substantial, difference? Think you are "right"? fine.. PROVE IT.. "duhh.. but I'm so old.." personally.. I don't think one is "too old" until they are dead..

Personally.. I think if someone is that "passionate" about legaleaze and all.. maybe one ought to go to law school.. if a fifty some year old squirrel can get a degree in math and chemistry.. I mean, cmon.. how hard can it be? you take your midlife crisis.. and just don't throw it away.. for gawd's sakes, DO SOMETHING with it.. I just didn't want to PRETEND to be a mathematician for the rest of my days or something like that.. oh, the nice university thirty miles the other way accepted me into their grad program.. now if they'll give me a teaching assistantship.. I'll be REALLY happy..

and while you are at it.. is that little book still in the auditorium.. listing names of contributors? Just curious..

it's almost "funny" at first.. "amusing".. how "quaint".. then if they persist.. and show they are really SERIOUS about it all.. *well.. what are YOU doing to witness da greatness of da word da manogawd taught us..* or something.. then it's "troubling".. at least to me. like the night of the living dead or something.. I wonder what *they* are doing with all of those old pfal materials and stuff they bought from geero.. probably five to seven bucks a shot.. as far as vic's old books are concerned.. probably trying to sell it in an internet bookstore.. with a name more appropriate for a cemetary.. sorry.. but it's probably true..