COUGH Wearing track shoes ...yet?

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Permalink Reply by philip chudy on December 30, 2008 at 2:20am

It means that we are loosing the battle. In order to preserve a mindless stone age attitude to life, we need to maintain an exponentially expanding volume of sophisticated props.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on December 30, 2008 at 7:11pm

That and we're going to "obsolete" ourselves...kinda like how Fist was just a NOUN decades ago...and now its also a VERB.

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Permalink Reply by TJ on January 3, 2009 at 2:26am

come on...some of those facts are pretty amazing in their own right?

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Permalink Reply by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer on January 4, 2009 at 9:25am

It means nothing really matters... and what if it did?

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Permalink Reply by TJ on January 4, 2009 at 12:25pm

I just love the irony of the speed at which we can reach people now...at the same pace we're losing real relationships (business AND personal) with those around us.

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Permalink Reply by philip chudy on January 4, 2009 at 2:02pm

Well I dont know what this 'real relationships' of the past is mean to refer to. The 'average' relationship of the past employed minimal consciousness, hardly any brain cells (in the emotional and intellectual centers) and consisted of doing little more than 'hanging around' in between bouts of chest thumping and the occasional cowardly display of brutality or greed (the males especially). Why shed a tear for that, especially since you can still just go buy a gun, to manifest a comforting emotional token of those wonderful days or yore.

The people who managed to live fulfilled lives then are doing just as well nowadays with new technology as they ever did.

Part of the motivation for progress - as far as it appears to me - has been to replace the shallowness and emptyness of the past with a new much more fragile emptyness - - the idea being that there seems to be no option but to do something about filling it. It is a bit like stranding yourself on an island where there is little food, as a strategy for loosing a few pounds, rather than just employing intelligence and will power to maintain a balanced diet.

Scary isn't it!

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Permalink Reply by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer on January 4, 2009 at 2:29pm

TJ, the only real relationship you will ever have is with yourself. How do you like those peanuts?

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Permalink Reply by TJ on January 4, 2009 at 10:58pm

Well I dont know what this 'real relationships' of the past is mean to refer to.Remember comforting hugs, firm handshakes and face to face communication with anyone and everyone? The 'average' relationship of the past employed minimal consciousness, hardly any brain cells (in the emotional and intellectual centers) and consisted of doing little more than 'hanging around' in between bouts of chest thumping and the occasional cowardly display of brutality or greed (the males especially).Been married a few times... huh? Why shed a tear for that, especially since you can still just go buy a gun, to manifest a comforting emotional token of those wonderful days or yore.Men ...or "husbands/significant others" should want to watch their wives bathe more often while they talk about important things, or just about how their days went...TRUST ME HERE!

The people who managed to live fulfilled lives then are doing just as well nowadays with new technology as they ever did. Oh yeah, if by "living fulfilled lives" you mean never raising your head from your Blackberry screen while you walk through a Sea of people on a busy New York street with Ipod earphones in your ears blocking out the sounds of real life and the latest $1000 pair of sunglasses so no one knows you're looking and staring at them.

Part of the motivation for progress - as far as it appears to me - has been to replace the shallowness and emptyness of the past with a new much more fragile emptyness - - the idea being that there seems to be no option but to do something about filling it.Lucid thought here actually...What can I say?...we're a "Goal-Oriented" species to say the least It is a bit like stranding yourself on an island where there is little food, as a strategy for loosing a few pounds, rather than just employing intelligence and will power to maintain a balanced diet...Do NOT PUT INTO EYES <------- on the back of EVERY SHAMPOO bottle - Think About IT?

Scary isn't it!

You haven't even SCRATCHED THE SURFACE Philip