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Kids are insane, if I acted like a 5 year old they'd lock me up somewhere. Most cultures all though history knew about demons and spirits.

We have months and years that start on relatively random days. Jan 1 has no astronomical correlation. OF course, a year is basically a trip around the sun and we throw in leap years to keep it stable. We have 12 official months even though closer to 13 moon cycles in year. Friday(Frigga, Venus) is a woman's day and women cycle with the moon.

The irony of horse stance is it is boring, it is not blissful, yet if you could outlast the sun in horse stance. Now that would be god realization.

Small sparks are the sun, things you burn grew because of the sun and when you burn them up it releases the sun. Some day even the sun will burn itself out and die. I do not see this as cause for despair, but nothing to get blissed out about either.

I don't care about those debate guys. I like the guy whose name I can't remember. Jackson? So what is so bad to live like an animal? My dog has a great life- eat, sleep, get stroked, jump in the air to catch birds and nap in the sun. I don't know what evolved god like beings do, likely a crashing bore with way too much responsibility. Did figure out it would compassionate to move the bird feeder to the front yard. Your pal, Dementia. (who will remember to only push the button one and to buy dog food, but probably not to call my mother).

Triple, really! Fortunately, I also do not care about mildly annoying technical things.

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No intrinsic reason, yet change still happens all the time. We get pushed snd pulled, or we drift like a jellyfish. Reasons might change, but change doesn't change, not sure how often change happens for reasons even if we do have reasons. Am I still the girl I used to be? I don't know and I don't care.

People don't understand where their water comes from; people don't understand where their food comes from either. Now, I love sustainable practices, vegetarianism, urban and community gardening. But at the current point in time, we have too many people to feed without modern high tech agriculture. We are currently coming out of worst drought since dust bowl years. crops have failed, yields are down. We already have sputtering economy, next food prices are going up. It might turn out okay, might be a coincidental dry year. But what are modern people going to do if they really do have to worry about basic survival? We have a majority who have been pretty well fed and complacent their whole lives. I hope someone would listen to voice of reason and think to save something for our grandkids, but people don't tend to think for the future when they're really working to survive. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/09/20/161501075/high-food-prices-forcast-more-global-riots-ahead-researchers-say?sc=tw&cc=share

http://www.michigannature.org/home/sancts/estivant/estivant.shtml They saved a few. But these are the pines that were relatively scrubby way up the point that they didn't bother with til later. It's really not that great to see at all and no one should go there, ever. My point was that all peoples have fought over power, wealth and land forever- and it really all boils down to land.

Native Americans didn't have individual ownership, but tribes had territories and fierce wars were fought over territories. Outsiders probably wouldn't be charged to live on the land; they'd have been killed, tortured, sometimes they were made slaves and later adopted into the tribe

I may look for that documentary and I don't think most properly appreciate the damage we've done. See my little pic at the base of pine that's been here since before Europeans came to North America? The whole upper peninsula of Michigan used to be covered with huge white pines, but during the Industrial Revolution, we cut them all down for timber so we could build stuff. By the 70s, all that was left was a stand of virgin forest way up at northwestern point, and they wanted to log those; locals protested and bought by private organization for nature preserve. Now much of the UP has been reclaimed, lots of state and nature forest land. It seems like a nature lovers paradise and the lake is definitely superior. You can backpack way into the national forest and camp for free. But all the trees are less than 100 years old and it's not really the same as the feel of that stand of original forest. Oh, and it's hardwood forest now; they tried to replant pines, but for some reason they won't grow well there now. Ohio was 95% forest in 1700s, 10% early 1900s, now back a little over 30% largely due to state and national lands. Much of Appalachia higher percentages, even places we absolutely trashed with strip mining coming back. So my idea is first of all, no land ownership seems pretty dangerous, if people can take what they want for nothing, people are going to cut down the trees, kill the animals and mine the earth itself. It already happened. And my other idea is, if you all love being in the woods and feel connected to the trees, maybe instead of thinking you should get something and give nothing, you should try to help out. Of course not everyone can buy land and maintain it as forest, but lots of great conservation organizations and parks always looking for volunteers. Even if you pick up some trash when strolling through the local park at least that's something.

It's the 14th and current Dalai Lama. The story is in the book and movie 7 Years in Tibet. He had a friend and mentor who was in Nazi party. Some conspiracy theories about bigger Nazi connections and that Nazis wanted to use Tibetand to help fight Chinese and Indians. Mostly wild stories, but could be a little truth.

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When you live with land as part of your family, for generations, then you get pretty emotional about land. It takes care of us; we take care of it. We get, unfortunately, some up close experience with how trashy and destructive people can be. And it sort of twists your gut and feels like a violation when random strangers come barging through. Asking for permission is better, although money doesn't really make it any more palatable, maybe, maybe if you know some mutual friend who can speak as reference. Really, there are many very nice private and public parks and campgrounds where you can pay your money to stay and there is staff to supervise and clean up after you if needed. You should go there.

I give thanks to "idiots" who maintain forest land they pay taxes on as forests, rather than allowing them to be cut down for development, and for keeping other idiots out who would kill the trees and animals, pollute and strew trash about, make unsafe campfires. or even generally tear things up with their noisy smelly ATVs.

I'm happier since realizing it is okay to be an introvert. And I am. I often would rather be home and putter around, read, exercise, whatever than go do social things. I used to try harder at relationships and being social, but if i don't keep it balanced with alone time it becomes quite draining and unenjoyable to me. But the stereotype of a happy person is an extrovert always going out with lots of friends.

"The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consistent and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese."- Frank Zappa (talking about harmony in music, but could apply to life too.

Lots of bums, but did you know there are still hobos? Last weekend sherriff called my dad about throwing out some hobos staying on some land he is currently the executor for. And they really were hoboes, not just homeless people. They hop on trains and travel around, there are web sites for hobos so they can find camps where the trains stop. I do not know how hoboes check the web sites, maybe they have lap tops or internet phones?

Sometimes turtle girls have a hard time coming out of their shell.

Most Disney villians are either somewhat feminine or female. If feminine is not =powerless and submissive, then it's scary? (Lion girls are terribly underappreciated and misunderstood).

But I don't really want to ATTRACT anything, I have enough. If that worked, shouldn't horny guys get lucky a lot more often anyway?

I have no idea what an enlightened individual would think I would guess they might not notice or at least not care about those labels. I've been poor (not third world, on the streets poor). It pretty much sucks when you're a kid, but I've lived the simple idealized farm country life. I appreciate some things about that life more now, but I also appreciate my present comfortable suburban life. When the kids are grown, I'll probably go back to the country and become simpler again. Every couple years, I go out and live in the woods real simple for about a week or so. It's good to go and it's good to come back. I think zerostao genuinely has the simple contented life groove just about right- and that is way cool.

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But it's still to get something. Feel rich to attract richness. Work hard and make good choices to get richness. Richness for everyone. A+?=Profit! So many ways to chase the wind.