bradley

: ) Those are all the good things... I have a few of them as well. things they dont really make anymore, or at least not like they used to. recently been collect typewriters and 78's (lots of foxtrot). thinking about rotary phones. lots of vinyl too, but prob does not make the list, though the old records sound so much better than the new ones, its a lost art. is it a horse drawn wagon, like a carrage? riding around town in a horse drawn carrage sounds nice, especially after a schooner... no law against that, is there?

peace is a paradox. the only way to fight aggression is to fight back. though there are many ways/strategies to fight back. its like taiji. sometimes you strike, sometimes you block, sometimes you roll back, ect. sometimes the strategy against aggression can be "non-violent." other times you might pay an army of teenagers to fly grenade bearing uavs across barren farmland at one another, while you anxiously and excitedly watch it all on twitter feeds.

agreed. i think karma is less about retribution, and more about growth, the gradual shaping of sentients over time into something better.

It is amazing though how people can justify their own "bad" actions. Some people can never consider themselves wrong or to have committed wrong because that would destroy the illusion of their ego, though they certainly cant escape karma. Some degree of enlightenment and transcendence of ego seems to be necessary to understand right and wrong, good and bad, etc.

Thats Portland for ya. I miss Portland.