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Matthew

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About Me

I am compelled. Early on in life, I thought that growing older just meant learning to get more and more in touch with one's own mediocrity in the grand scheme of things, and I would love to say that now I realize that I was totally wrong and way off base. It is about balance and finding a way to love in the face of whatever degree of sobering reality I happen to be. There is no reason to deny the greatness of which we are all capable.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Open minds, true philosophers with voracious hunger, centers of growth, and everyone else. It's a trick question, isn't it? It isn't though I'm asked, With Whom would you like to become close friends, is it? And if I were asked that, I would respond effusively that I could wish for nothing more than to become closer to the people in my life now; however, that doesn't mean that I am not entertaining the prospect of meeting new people for the rest of my life. It's all happening!

My Blog

Religion

Below, find the article to which I responded and my response.Re: "Prejudices slipped away on path to liberalism," author Jim Evans. I am compelled to answer Mr. Evans' "My Political Journey" in the ...
Posted by on Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:15:00 GMT

Civilization Dialog

My friend, Ishmael, posted a bulletin recently. I forwarded the bulletin to several friends and asked them what they thought about it. Here is the bulletin:Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way o...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:14:00 GMT

What I believe

I grow. Tired of losing faith in supposed systems that are very important in the ways that they play on my life, I look hard to find in what my contemporaries believe even while they decry the institu...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 13:57:00 GMT

Poetry

Business Haiku   The meetings everyTuesday morning kept us allplodding through the weekI kept my tie tightto remain conscious of myotherwise strained breathListening to birdsshirping in the morni...
Posted by on Thu, 08 May 2008 14:44:00 GMT

Microwave "Ovens"

This was forwarded to me by my much better half, and while I have heard corroborating stories in the past, I hope this time I will really shy from using the microwave and start using my toaster oven.I...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:45:00 GMT

Affirmative Action

I will preface this piece only by saying that I went to this event to garner ten points for a philosophy class. I missed a quiz worth ten points because of Traffic School, so I have submitted this to ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 13:42:00 GMT

The first truly spring rain

Can I just take a moment to celebrate what a terrific life I have? I woke this morning after hitting my snooze three times. Rather, I rose after hitting the snooze three times. For the final 27 minute...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Responding to Alterna-Kids

Here is the blog that I responded to Sunday night. It is self-explanatory and very well-intentioned: 01/18/08 11:17PM  Cretins            ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 20:40:00 GMT

Dont let work ruin your life

A friend of mine recently asked me if I liked the word ennui. I relayed a story that explained why I cared for the word, and my friend told me that he would like to live someplace that felt like the w...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:33:00 GMT

In a chain of bubbles, all the links are weak

I was talking to a friend the other day, and I asked him whether or not he had ever blogged. He didn't answer me outright so much as I surmised the case by his response question:    &n...
Posted by on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:20:00 GMT