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If you decide to get "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" make sure to get the translation by Graham. The one on Gutenberg isn't translated very well.

Just been keeping busy as hell with work. I disabled 450 users, stripped a bunch of rights, and removed access last Friday and that went well so I have relaxed a bit this weekend. Next weekend is another big project. Work consumes my life right now because it is so stressful that I spend my free time just trying to find a balance again.

How about you?

As for poetry and prose. Maybe. I need some alone, thinking time to figure out what to write next.

Of course, snuggle-guppy! I'm milking the cows, churning the butter and making you the manliest, most cholesterol-infused breakfast my tiny, feminine hands can manage!

A log cabin sounds lovely. The one you built with your bare hands? And you will be chopping up the wood for our fire personally, won't you? Such a display of excessive testosterone will certainly trigger my snuggle-factor. You know me too well.

(Heehee. Well, my creativity is back, so I wouldn't be surprised if you see more groan-worthy word-play from me for as long as it lasts...)

Well, that all depends on whether you spritzed on some of that Touch

I am reading some Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil right now. Nietzsche always does that same thing to me, I have to stop, think, have an epiphany, write something down, then continue reading, so his books go slow for me, LOL.

I have the trilogy by Quinn, I will have to start on Ishmael next, it is making my mouth water!

The Mind and the Brain was a really good book that I just finished that was really enlightening. It combines neuroscience, buddhism, philosophy and physics all into theories of the mind(and also provides proof based on experiments and clinical trials he conducted through curing OCD, Tourettes, etc.). The thesis is that the mind CAN control the brain, as in the arrangement of neurons in the brain can change solely based on thought alone, which always seemed completely obvious to me. Or I should say, what is obvious is that you can completely change yourself, your perspective, and your attitude if you are willing to dig and focus consistent attention and repetition. So my argument wasn't that neuroplasticity itself is influenced one way or the other, but as soon as they showed that memory and behavior is largely influenced on how the plasticity of neuron interconnections are shaped then it naturally followed that neuroplasticity is influenced through thought.


Apparently in the scholarly of science it is completely denied, or at least was. His tangents of the politics between scientific 'cliques' gets a bit tedious at times. This book attempts to give a scientific proof of the above paragraph, why it happens, how it happens, and proof that it happens. He also mentions tests performed by other scientists that influenced his and colleagues' works. Overall it was a very good read.

He mentioned a bit about William James' Psychology: The Briefer Course which predicted a lot of his thesis back in the late 19th Century.

When the initial kick off the bridge went, the guy in the 2nd level (that lost gravity) should have woken, right? I don't understand how Saito grew so old in that deepest level. Between the two of them, Cobb and Fischer were in the same level the entire span that Saito was there yet neither of them aged hardly at all in it, unless I missed them trying to make DiCaprio look older.

I think the unconscious would be way less consistent in the dreams, assuming that it would even act like that at all in a dream. However, I understand that you have to draw the line somewhere to make a movie. Perhaps that wasn't how it worked in the source of the movie.

The casting was AWESOME. There wasn't one person that didn't fit their role perfectly. Well, except for Yusuf, his intro was REALLY good, but he could have been portrayed as much more cryptic and gotten a much deeper character. I really liked Ariadne, so complex!

It was partly for my own health because a few people legit think I have a problem, lol!

Well we are on the same wavelength now. When I was your age I was not. You still have a lot of chances to make a difference. Mine are more limited now. Keep it all in your heart and mind and do the best you can with them. I will too!

What about the world puzzles or disturbs you that you could make an impact on?
Why do so many people feel the need to impose themselves on others? Why does my country pride its self on being a beacon of freedom and liberty, but treat the world as it's material belongings?

Why indeed. It makes me ashamed to be American. What has happened to us MF?

You actually made me laugh really hard with that crazy ass song you posted. I figured you were just messin with me The other song I think would sound really good with just an acoustic guitar and its pretty easy to sing. The lyrics are just alotta fun.

Thanks MF! I'm hanging... one toe at a time.

I owe you like, sixteen reps. For some reason, it's telling me I need to spread the love around (and I have!) and it's still not satisfied!

Yeah, I thought so too. And that's exactly what I am going to do.
Thank youuuuu. =)

*GLOMP*

Yeah, the old SW games are easily the best. That said Republic Commando and The Force Unleashed weren't bad, just didn't have that certain magic feeling about them.

that's a german word, there is an english equivalent. That people are using german instead of their own language is indicative of their stupidity and wilful ignorance of their own language. That's what's killing the language.

I see you, seeing me.

hey, I don't have the cell phone tonight. but I will call you tomorrow. If you want to come do something over this way I could do a little grilling out later in the afternoon. Think on it and we'll talk tomorrow.

Yep that would work.