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What if we can't save the world?

Posted on Mar 13th, 2009 by heemes : Philosophy Minor, Life Major heemes
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for March 13, 2009:

I agree with A; the world maybe doesn't need saving.  I believe we do.
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Tagged with: QaR, hope, world, future

Haiku Poem

Posted on Mar 19th, 2009 by heemes : Philosophy Minor, Life Major heemes
Cats know the secret,
Be Now is the key to grace,
Listen. look, smell, POUNCE!
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Sayings About Friendship

Posted on Mar 23rd, 2009 by heemes : Philosophy Minor, Life Major heemes
I've heard it said, "Friends are like money in the bank, the longer you keep them, the more they are worth."

I'd like to add a new notion to this pattern today with what I think is an original thought.  Google it and tell me I'm wrong.  I tried and found nothing.

It is this, "Friends are like money in the bank; if you don't withdraw, then they'll keep giving interest."

Nice one, eh?
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Revelation: An Ego-Driven World Looks Like...

Posted on Mar 25th, 2009 by heemes : Philosophy Minor, Life Major heemes
Per Eckhart Tolle in A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose, an ego-driven world has three types of relationships in it, categorized like this:

1. Wanting (i.e. What do I want from you?)
2. Thwarted Wanting (i.e. If I'm not getting what I want from you, but I might, what do I feel? [possible answers are anger, resentment, blaming, or complaining])
3. Indifference (i.e. If I'm not getting what I want from you and I know I won't, then I just don't care about you)

In my life, how many relationships of the past could be summarized this way?  Countless.

This is a continuation of my conscious evolution here on Gaia (and gaia.com).  In fact, I'll link from there to here!
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Snow Patrol: Crack the Shutters

Posted on Mar 26th, 2009 by heemes : Philosophy Minor, Life Major heemes
These are amazing lyrics, gotta share!
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> You cool your bed-warm hands down on the broken radiator,
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> And when you lay them freezing on me, I mumble "can you wake me later?"
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> But I don't really want you to stop and you know it so it doesn't stop
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> And run your hands from my neck to my chest
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> Crack the shutters open wide, I wanna bathe you in the light of day
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> And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
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> I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
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> Cuz' the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you
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> It's been minutes, it's been days, it's been all I will remember
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> Happy lost in your hair and the cold side of the pillow
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> Your hills and valleys are mapped by my intrepid fingers
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> And in a naked slumber, I dream all this again
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> Crack the shutters open wide, I wanna bathe you in the light of day
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> And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
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> I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
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> Cuz' the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you
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> Crack the shutters open wide, I wanna bathe you in the light of day
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> And just watch you as the rays tangle up around your face and body
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> I could sit for hours finding new ways to be awed each minute
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> Cuz' the daylight seems to want you just as much as I want you
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How could you answer the question, "What do you do?"

Posted on Mar 31st, 2009 by heemes : Philosophy Minor, Life Major heemes
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for March 31, 2009:

I do my best to undo doing and create being.  There is no need to do when being is present.  All flows from my be-ing's essence.  (sometime a little lesson in not taking another person's inventory helps me too)
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