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J E F F

Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown

About Me


From childhood's hour I have not been As others were I have not seen As others saw
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
I have lived in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Wisconsin, Washington and Michigan But I like Texas the best. I tend to lean to the republicans side of politics but I don't agree with them on every issue. I think I'm part hippy. I'm naturally curious and love to learn new things. I have been searching for answers on human existence most of my life and so far the best answer is 42. I'm definitely a red pill kind of person.
The red pill is an unknown quantity. We are told that it can help us to find the truth. We don't know what that truth is, or even that the pill will help us to find it. The red pill symbolizes risk, doubt and questioning. In order to answer the question, you can gamble your whole life and world on a reality you have never experienced.
The blue pill will leave us as we are, in a life consisting of habit, of things we believe we know. We are comfortable, we do not need truth to live. The blue pill symbolizes commuting to work every day, or brushing your teeth.
Do you live on in ignorance (and potentially bliss) or do you lead what Aristotle called 'the examined life'.
Truth, is worth pursuing.
And time rolls by, Like an old friend gone away. And I am just a mortal man, And death will be my final lover, And life will always be something that I'll never understand.
Friendship served up on a plate of beautiful pop culture.
And as I watch the drops of rain Weave their weary paths and die I know that I am like the rain There but for the grace of you go I
To Stefanie
Darkness there, and nothing more.
I move down the street like a cloud moving across a clear blue sky, And I know I'll never feel this way again.

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they're yours.
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive, it isn't.
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
You gave your life to become the person you are right now. Was it worth it?
No matter how qualified or deserving we are, we will never reach a better life until we can imagine it for ourselves and allow ourselves to have it
Richard Bach
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself
Henry David Thoreau
Get Your Own Voice Player Manage
When you hold back your Love Hoping to find more elsewhere, You learn how to wait, Not how to Love.
Peter Rengel
Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists
A Course In Miracles
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were I have not seen As others saw
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
Darkness there, and nothing more.
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Edgar Allan Poe
Our life is what our thoughts make it
Marcus Aurelius
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do; and for the people who like country music, denigrate means "put down".
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
Bob Newhart
Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.
It's hard to be free but when it works, it' s worth it!
All you really have that really matters are feelings. That's what music is to me.
Janis Joplin
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
When I die, just keep playing the records.
Jimi Hendrix
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
"I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now..."
What if there were no hypothetical questions?
Steven Wright
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life
C3PO
Winston Churchill said that democracy was the worst possible form of government, except for all the others. Maybe we can say the same about capitalism. For all of its faults, it gives most hardworking people a chance to improve themselves economically, even as the deck is stacked in favor of the privileged few... Here are the choices most of us face in such a system: Get bitter or get busy
Bill O'Reilly
Tea and cake or death!
I grew up in Europe, where the history comes from.
Eddie Izzard
Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa
I'm in it to win it and No Limit is my home (for life for life).
Snoop Dogg
Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
Richard Feynman
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Imagination is more important than Knowledge
If only I had known, I would have been a locksmith.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them
Albert Einstein
Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
Stephen Hawking
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom
Malcolm X
There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, You can't say that.
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
Time is an Illusion, Lunch time, doubly so
Douglas Adams
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.
I am at two with nature.
I do not believe in an afterlife, although I am bringing a change of underwear
Woody Allen
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees.
Benjamin Franklin
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
A little rebellion now and then is a good thing
Thomas Jefferson
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
All wars are fought for money
Socrates
It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad.
Jimmy Buffett
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sir Winston Churchill
The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Nat King Cole
He not busy being born is busy dying.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
Do, or do not... There is no try
Yoda
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I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
Unified Field Theory by Tim Joseph In the beginning there was Aristotle, At objects at rest tended to remain at rest, And objects in motion tended to come to rest, And soon everything was at rest, And God saw that it was boring. Then God created Newton, And objects at rest tended to remain at rest, But objects in motion tended to remain in motion, And energy was conserved and momentum was conserved and matter was conserved, And God saw that it was conservative. Then God created Einstein, And everything was relative, And fast things became short, And straight things became curved, And the universe was filled with inertial frames, And God saw that it was relatively general, but some of it was especially relative. Then God created Bohr, And there was the principle, And the principle was quantum, And all things were quantified, But some things were still relative, And God saw that it was confusing. Then God was going to create Ferguson, And Ferguson would have unified, And he would have fielded a theory, And all would have been one, But it was the seventh day, And God rested, And objects at rest tend to remain at rest.

My Interests

I am interested in Learning, Spiritual Growth, Physics, Theologies, Science, Politics, Evolution, The Detroit Lions, Home Theatre, Computers, DNA, General Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, M-theory, Ancient Religions Paranormal, Archaeology, History, Sci fi, Nature, Not Conforming, Truth and Happiness,

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Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them
Richard Bach

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Santayana

I regret that I have but one life to give for my country

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I'd like to meet:

This Bunny

You can either be negative or positive; the choice is up to you. By staying positive you will help the bad times pass much faster.

Quote the raven, `Nevermore.'

If guns kill people, then… Pencils miss spell words. Cars make people drive drunk. Spoons made Rosie O Donnell fat.

You can't change the world But you can change your perception of the world And if you can change your perception of the world Then you can change the world!

Barry Brilliant

Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, and teachers.
Richard Bach

If you don’t know where you’re going, how are you going to know when you get there?

- Gene Simmons

If there were a complete set of laws, that would infringe God’s freedom to change his mind and intervene in the world. It’s a bit like the old paradox: can God make a stone so heavy that he can’t lift it? But the idea that God might want to change his mind is an example of the fallacy, pointed out by St. Augustine, of imagining God as a being existing in time: time is a property only of the universe that God created. Presumably, he knew what he intended when he set it up!

Einstein once asked the question: “How much choice did God have in constructing the universe?” If the no boundary proposal is correct, he had no freedom at all to choose initial conditions. He would, of course, still have had the freedom to choose the laws that the universe obeyed. This, however, may not really have been all that much of a choice; there may well be only one, or a small number, of complete unified theories, such as the heterotic string theory, that are self-consistent and allow the existence of structures as complicated as human beings who can investigate the laws of the universe and ask about the nature of God.

When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything in the universe.

John Muir

If I have seen further it is by standing on shoulders of Giants.

I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.

Isaac Newton

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Billy Crystal

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Music

Music:

Everything

On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken, amazed to see where I have come, where I'm going, where I'm from.This is not the path I thought. This is not the place I sought. This is not the dream I bought, just a fever of fate I've caught.I'll change highways in a while, at the crossroads, one more mile. My path is lit by my own fire. I'm going only where I desire.On the road that I have taken, one day, walking, I awaken. One day, walking, I awaken, on the road that I have taken.
Dean Koontz

A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.

Rosellen Brown

Movies:

What The Bleep Do We Know, The Great Secret of the Universe, Scary, Medieval, Supernatural

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.
Richard Bach

I don't like sex on television. I keep falling off.
Saul Feldman

Television:

The History Channel, PBS, Documentary, Sci fi

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Galileo Galilei

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.

Richard Bach

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

Bruce Lee

For then we would know the mind of God.
Stephen Hawking

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservations.

Elton Trueblood

Books:

Anything from Douglas Adams or Stephen King The Dark Tower, Ann Rice, Dean Koontz, and Richard Bach, Principia Mathematica



So Einstein was wrong when he said "God does not play dice". Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.
Stephen Hawking
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
Stephen King
Ego is convinced that Love is dangerous.
A Course in Miracles
I'm glad you asked, son. Being popular is the most important thing in the world.
Homer Simpson
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Lee Iacocca
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
This is your life and it's ending one minute at a time

Heroes:

Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Roland Deschain, Nicolas Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Galileo Galilei, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit.
Richard Bach
Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it Richard Feynman
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear.
George Orwell
The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.
Bill Nye
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out
Richard Dawkins
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.
Voltaire
I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner
Without religion you have good people doing good things, and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
All that we've known, is but the first second of our existence. We are children in a very real sense.
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People of humor are always in some degree people of genius
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.
Dana Gould
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Proverbs 29:18
Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!
George Washington
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Funny is an attitude.
Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
Flip Wilson
What happens when we're dead? The irony is that all our questions will be answered after we die. We spend our whole life trying to figure out the truth and the only way we'll find out what it is, is to get hit by a bus. And the only comfort that religion Infers is that God is driving that bus
John Ryman
Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish.
Science shines forth in all its value as a good capable of motivating our existence, as a great experience of freedom for truth, as a fundamental work of service. Through research each scientist grows as a human being and helps others to do likewise.
Pope John Pail II
Sex is one of the nine reasons for reincarnation. The other eight are unimportant.
George Burns
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
Sharon Stone
My girlfriend always laughs during sex---no matter what she's reading.
Steve Jobs
Ah, yes, divorce - from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Robin Williams
If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators could be dead.
Johnny Carson
Instructions for Life from the Dalai Lama
Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
Follow the three Rs: Respect for self, respect for others and responsibility for all your actions.
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
Spend some time alone every day.
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Be gentle with the earth.
Once a year, go some place you've never been before.
Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.
Some signs and symptoms of inner peace:
A tendency to think and act spontaneously rather than on fears based on past experiences.
An unmistakable ability to enjoy each moment.
A loss of interest in judging other people.
A loss of interest in interpreting the actions of others.
A loss of interest in conflict.
A loss of the ability to worry. (This is a very serious symptom).
Frequent, overwhelming episodes of appreciation. Contented feelings of connectedness with others and nature.
Frequent attacks of smiling.
An increasing tendency to let things happen rather than make them happen.
An increased susceptibility to the love extended by others as well as the uncontrollable urge to extend it.
Second from the right and straight on 'til morning
Peter Pan
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Protons have mass? I didn't even know they were Catholic
I have a quantum car. Every time I look at the speedometer I get lost...
No scientist is ever right, they just can't be proved wrong at the time
"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
Hal Abelson Kirk never actually said "Beam me up, Scotty".
"Beam us up, Mr. Scott."
I went to a strip mall the other day. Let me tell you, I was disappointed. Everybody else had on clothes.
The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live
"Grab reality by the balls and squeeze."
Tempus Thales
I am as confused as a baby in a topless bar
The only reason that so many women fake orgasms is because so many men fake foreplay
The first time I had sex, I was terrified. I was alone
"Bad mood, bad mood...Sure I'm in a bad mood! I haven't had sex...*EVER!*"
Virgin Mary
Ride a motorcycle. Save Gas, Oil, Rubber, Steel, Aluminum, Parking Spaces, The Environment, and Money. Plus, you get to wear all the leather you want
I don't understand why prostitution is illegal. Selling is legal, Fucking is legal, why isn't selling fucking legal?"
George Carlin
"Darling, it's better down where it's wetter, take it from me!"
I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
If you smoke after sex, you're going too fast.
Sex is better than logic, but I can't prove it
'Gentlemen! You can't fight in here! This is the war room.'
Dr. Stangelove
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.
How do you make holy water? Boil the hell out of it.
Sure, I go to church sometimes -- but I don't go religiously.
"No vision of God and heaven ever experienced by the most exalted prophet can, in my opinion, match the vision of the universe as seen by Newton or Einstein"
Isaac Asimov
"I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many."
Whitney Brown
Failure is not an option. It's bundled with the software.
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks."
Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.
I took an IQ test and the results were negative.
Too many people, too few sheep
Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check?
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
"I can please only one person a day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either."
Some people are alive only because it is illegal to kill them.
The generation that took acid to escape reality is now taking antacids to deal with reality
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away - and barefoot.
Sex is not the answer, sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and
I wondered,
"Where the FUCK is my ROOF ?!?"
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Chaos rules the universe! Scientists call it entropy! Everything is breaking down, tending towards greater and greater disorder! It's great to be on the winning side!
Radioactive cats have 18 half-lives.
Why is it that when a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment, but when a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95/minute?
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To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world
Fear is the Mind Killer
Paul Atreides in Dune
There are three kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't.
Why is abbreviation such a long word?
Madness takes aits toll. Please have exact change ready.
Be nice to your kids . . . they'll be the ones choosing your nursing home.
Did you ever stop to think . . . and forget to start again?
I don't have a solution, but I admire the problem.
Department of Redundancy Department.
Headline: Bear takes over Disneyland in Pooh D'Etat!
What has four legs and an arm? A happy pit bull.
Cats don’t belong to people. They belong to places.
Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later
In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him.
There are people who reshape the world by force or argument, but the cat just lies there, dozing; and the world quietly reshapes itself to suit his comfort and convenience.
What is the appeal about cats?" he said kindly. "I've always wanted to know." "They don't care i you like them. They haven't the slightest notion of gratitude, and they never pretend. They take what you have to offer, and away they go.
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, color scheme, income, personality, mood. But under the fur; whatever color it may be, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Cats seem to go on the principle that is never does any harm to ask for what you want.
No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens
I think it would be great to be a cat! You come and go as you please. People always feed and pet you. They don't expect much of you. You can play with them, and when you've had enough, you go away. You can pick and choose who you want to be around. You can't ask for more than that.
You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals.
When my cats aren't happy, I'm not happy. Not because I care about their mood but because I know they're just sitting there thinking up ways to get even.
Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.
Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this.
People that hate cats will come back as mice in their next life.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vidal Sassoon
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
One of the things I learned the hard way was it does not pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself.
Lucille Ball
Judge me all u want... just keep the verdict to urself!
Leave the crowd, stand apart, ignore your head and follow your heart
I'd rather be hurt by the truth than hear your lies
Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else
The most difficult years of marriage are those following the wedding.
A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
I never let my schooling get in the way of my education
It's hard to think of you as the end result of millions of years of evolution.
If your not yourself, then really, your just a nobody
There is greatness on the inside of you
I have seen so many people miss out on opportunities of a life time because of their bad attitude.
Keep your thoughts on what you CAN do and have, not on what you can’t do and have.
You have to be willing to step out of your comfort zone from time to time in order to get the most out of life. No one ever experienced great things by playing it safe all of the time. Taking risks doesn’t mean making reckless decisions. What it does mean is stepping out of the norm to reach for something greater.
Stop Complaining- Complaining is not just annoying to other people, it is harmful to you. When your first strategy in the face of adversity is to give up and complain in the hopes that other people will come to solve your problem for you. You rob yourself of initiative, you shut your imagination down, and you stop looking for solutions to your problem on your own. You are trying to manipulate people.
Worry is the process by which you torture yourself with past could've-beens and future what-ifs- both of which are, by virtue of their imaginary status, impossible to address in the present. They are separate from reality, and separate in time, from anything you can control- all you can control is yourself, in the present. If, with your present self, you choose to worry, all you accomplish is to take yourself out of reality for the duration of your trip. It just makes you unhappy now.
Get over being selfish- It's a basic truth that you have needs, and a simple way of defining needs is 'what you require in order to fulfill your purpose'. If you're a carpenter, you need your tools or else you can't do carpentry, and it's impossible for you to do the good things you do that make life better for other people. You have many purposes, and therefore many needs- you are someone's child, someone's friend, someone's parent perhaps- all of these roles confer responsibilities upon you, and fulfilling these responsibilities is arguably part of your purpose in life. If you fail to get your own needs met, you cannot effectively serve those purposes. Getting your needs met is an absolutely moral endeavor, because it establishes your own ability to contribute to the lives of others.
Being selfish doesn't mean taking more than your share- that's what the complainers would have you think- they want you to feel bad about not meeting their needs before yours. Being selfish is not the opposite of being generous, it is the pre-requisite of being generous. What being selfish does is allow you to fulfill your potential- it allows you to discover, and to express the values that define your purpose in life. It allows you to filter out demands of you that are unreasonable, it allows you to attract positivity and position yourself in a way that everything you do makes you happy, including giving.
If you are unprepared to serve yourself, you cannot serve others. Make yourself happy, and you will attract people who are, or want to be, happy. Accept that you cannot make anyone else truly happy- only they can do that, by following the same selfishness principle. Create within yourself what you want to attract from without- it works in no other way, and it starts with you.
'Quit serving your ego and train your ego to serve you.' Who is the boss here, after all? This one is fundamentally important, because mastering this concept is key to personal freedom, happiness, and being an effective person
We're here to learn and grow as we become our future selves- and solving problems is the way we learn from our world. What's more, it feels good to solve them. To be human is to have problems, and the question you want to ask yourself is this: are the problems you have right now worthy of you? Are they a fitting expenditure of your life?
Don't fear failure-In order to succeed, first you have to try. If your fear of failure is greater than your desire to succeed, odds are good that you won't try, and therefore cannot succeed.
Your body will treat you as you treat it- so it's vital that you get out with it and keep it healthy. What's more, exercise reduces stress, helps you rest better, sharpens your mind, lengthens your life, and improves its' quality. If you smoke, do what it takes to quit. If you're clinically overweight or have other health challenges, do what it takes to manage your health- you only have one body, and using it as it was meant to be used makes it feel better, last longer, and look better.

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Dyslexia - Disability or Gift?

When properly trained and informed, a dyslexic can use their natural abilities to shift perceptions, enhance creativity, refine thinking, and improve physical performance. Dyslexia only becomes a "dis...
Posted by J E F F on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:23:00 PST

Politically Correct Idiots

Q:  WHAT IS P.C.?PC stands for Politically Correct.  We of the Politically Correctphilosophy believe in increasing a tolerance for a DIVERSITY of cultures,race, gender, ideology and alternat...
Posted by J E F F on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:00:00 PST

Richard Bach

You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anythin...
Posted by J E F F on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:00:00 PST

Light

186,000 miles per second, Q: Why is the speed of light only 186,000 miles per second? Can't science do better than this? A: Yes, you're right. It's a disgrace that light only goes a measly 186,000 m...
Posted by J E F F on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:41:00 PST