Bobby John

No more than 200 people lived in that unincorportated area in West Virginia. And it was Bobbie John’s kingdom. For years, for as long as anyone could remember, Bobbie John was the arbitrator and, like President Bush, the decider. Under his command were 200 living souls. Why did they come to Bobbie John to settle disputes, have him suggest whom to marry, all that day-to-day “important” stuff for those 200 living, breathing souls?

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Bad Directions are indeed recipes made for disaster. You’re doing something, making something, repairing something, going somewhere, and you become confused, not completely lost, just confused, so you stop and ask for directions. Guess what? Duh! Nine times out of ten someone gives you the wrong directions or you give yourself the wrong directions. These kinds of directions are Bad Directions when used in recipes that make for disaster.

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Convenience VS. Ecology
Stop Plastic!

Plastic bags were just outlawed (first in California, where else?) from the supermarkets. Then from drugstores. Plastic bags have come to be no more, no longer used, no longer manufactured for California. Now, it’s soon for your state. Why?

Why it’s for the good of the environment, Honey! Plastic doesn’t decompose in landfills. It lasts and outlasts. California (always first) has put a “stop” law on these bags to keep them out of landfills, out of the ocean. Have you ever seen the news reports of this gigantic doughnut of plastic stuff in the ocean that’s continuously and permanently circling upon itself, goosed by ocean currents?

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Who’s next?

Just imagine a world where …

She looked at the back cargo hold and counted the children. “If we must,” she said, “let it be Josh.”

“Let’s try for a hitchhiker instead,” he said. “R9 has always been good for hunting hitchhikers. If I can trap three hitchhikers, Josh can be saved for another trip.”

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The catalyst for irrationality.

America’s future (maybe even the world’s), in my opinion, will all boil down to who will be elected the next president of the United States.

I strongly believe the world is watching and listening to what we are going to do with this constitutionally given elective power. 2008 will most likely be the most important political year in our generation, if not in the last 100 years.

If we elect another “everyday” political hawk, democrat OR republican, we will turn down a path that will lead us to a darker and more unAmerican future, and the point of no return will probably be passed. But, If we choose one of the unlikely candidates like Kucinich, Paul or maybe even Obama, we may be able to turn around this country, and potentially even our global image for the good.

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Can we repair our bio-machine?

What if the human body had a warranty? Well, it may actually have one, but you are probably voiding it right at this moment. Mental stress and overly abundant food may two of the major culprits to our societies’ collective decline in health.

Ever wonder why stress is a killer, and why it plagues our civilization? What about why the foods that we crave are the worst for us? Our original blueprint for human survival may be a key to some of life’s ultimate questions. This blueprint for our bodies was designed by hundreds of thousands of years of evolution (unless you believe God created us just as we are right now, then your answer would be God didn’t think us through very well or is simply a cruel being). So we need to think back to the environment and lifestyle that triggered the evolutionary changes that made us what we are.

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Hi, my name is …

What’s in a name? Nothing. Nothing at all. And if you learn a thing’s name, you lose all of its thing-ness, its splendor, its mystery. It is all a matter of perception. This is my chance to play philosopher. Bear with me, and we’ll explore together.

What is reality? Again, what we perceive is what reality is, at least for us. We call a daisy a daisy and a dandelion a dandelion.

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You are here.

So here is my question of all questions: What does one do if he is aware? If you are asking aware of what, then you must not be paying attention. Aware of everything. Political corruptness; corporate greed; American materialism; human stupidity; America’s individualism at the expense of society; RELIGION, and its pathetic followers! What if you are aware of the “Matrix” but have not been freed from it? What if everyone around you is still believing the lie and trying to pull you back in to it, time and time again?

I keep telling myself, “it is not that horrible,” and “just ignore the bad and appreciate the good.” Unfortunately, I have for some time now. For decades, if you count the BS that one has to deal with as an intellectual child in public school. And the same inane things that one deals with in grade school, just seems to get more dynamic, complex and sophisticated, but nonetheless, still the same BS just a little more fancy. So, do people grow up, ever?

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Snipped from the Blog.SCIAM.com.

This article was really interesting to me for many reasons. One, I think any new discovery about the brain is REALLY cool. I don’t think that needs much explanation. Second, I have noticed a very strange way that I process information in comparison to that of “normal” people. Not that I am a genius or anything, ha ha, but I do tend to “think” outside my “consciousness”. My problem solving is more like a reaction than a act of “thinking”. If that confuses you even further, let me give you a story that led me to this strange conclusion.

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Have you ever wondered about those people who get transplanted organs from other people and whether or not they feel any different with someone else’s organs? Well, researchers are finding out that there may be something with having another’s organ within you. There have been startling reports of how people have taken on personality quirks, mannerisms and desires from people from whom they received their hearts. Some of these reports are truly remarkable and will really make you think. I have read in a couple of sources that the mind is not in the brain. Scientists have studied, sliced, magnified and electrified the brain to exhastion, and in the end, there is still no central source or processing unit. Meaning, no one is behind the wheel, so to speak. So if it is not in the brain, where does it exist and what makes us… well, us? Is it in every organ, tissue, cell? Is our mind encoded in our DNA?

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