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Well, I perhaps owe some explanation. . . . I banged my hand and am just getting back to being able to type. . . . .
 
well, I'll be hitting the road again for a few days. . . . it'll be interesting to see how things work out.
 
babe said:
Now, guys, I've given you a clean start. . . a brand new page.
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i wish i could have a clean start to life. i ahve made quite a few mistakes... babe give me ome advice for a happy worthy life?

awaiting your response,
JGolds
 
JGolds said:
i wish i could have a clean start to life. i ahve made quite a few mistakes... babe give me ome advice for a happy worthy life?

awaiting your response,
JGolds
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the only folks who haven't made mistakes are those who haven't realized it yet. . . . .
 
I've probably made more mistakes than you. . . . . been around a lot longer. . . . seen what happened from my various forms of sin, stupidity and evil.

One thing I've got going for myself is that I still like me. . . . .

and probably a few other people, too.
 
well, I'm sure there are some actual specifics I could get to, maybe do even a hundred posts. Tell you what, I've gotta go do some real work for a day or two, I'll be thinking about this and will have some gems worked out when I come back.
 
First of all, I'd like to see what some other folks can come up with. . . . . so anybody who offers anything is more than welcome. . . .
 
This 40 day trip to Kentucky with my family has opened my eyes to things I would not have realized if we hadn't come. I considered myself a great husband and father prior to this trip.. and I'd like to think I was. However, I hadn't realized what a rut we were in. There are lots of good that comes from consistency and normalcy, but there are equal parts good about mixing things up, surprising the wife and kids with new places, cultures, and thought-provoking circumstances. Things outside their normal sphere of reality.. their environmentally created paradigm.

I vow to do this more often and to be challenging the minds of my family while broadening their perspectives.
 
so I came up with a new twist on religion. . . . .

in the most generic sense, "religion" is mankind's "cry for help". . . . whether or not there is actually anything out there to cry to. If we weren't human, maybe we just wouldn't care. . . . but love is way we try to help one another, perhaps a more immediate "answer" than "God" or "religion".
 
The "UN", and all the related human efforts to solve the world's problems would be a good idea if it was answerable or accountable to the people. I know a lot of folks in the secular humanist/socialist/progressive line of beliefs and hopes do feel like it is the way to "care" or show "love".

"Religion" when it appears in the statist mode or is used a means of effectively managing the little people for the purposes of kings/governments/whatever form of "management", just seems to me to be a false love. . . . tyranny at any level of organization just doesn't really translate as "love".
 
But "religion" or sincere personal conscience or real personal committment to helping others is a highly admirable form of love. . . . well, as long as it is directing one's own conduct and not being forced on others to regulate their conduct or belief or choice.
 
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