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is there a point to pointlessness?

  

by: pfiore8

Wed Apr 14, 2010 at 07:35:12 AM EDT

(8am - promoted by newpioneer)

There could be a point, a moment in which you look around your home. There are perhaps pictures or paintings hanging on walls. Pots and pans in the kitchen. A dozen pair of shoes and rows of hangers holding shirts and pants in a bedroom closet. Not to mention assorted potted plants. Lamps. Shades. Nicknacks. All that infrastructure. All those things . . .

Anyway. That point, that moment could happen: looking around your place and it all goes funny. It hits soft, at first, this simple thought: maybe... maybe it's all a bit ridiculous. Slightly absurd. The idea that a thing could hold value. Have meaning. Or stir memory.

It goes further. I'm in a wheel upon which I run. The wheel keeps turning because I keep running on it. I can't stop running. Actually, I don't know how to stop. Or how to get off the wheel. I don't think I'm trapped. In fact, I think I'm free. And yet, I can't get off the wheel.

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about these ratings

  

by: RiaD

Mon Apr 12, 2010 at 13:44:16 PM EDT

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i've gotten & seen several questions in comments about these new ratings.

and i got a couple e-mails about them.

it has been proposed that i reconfigure the ratings to put them in ascending order, putting thanks,& laughter in the middle somewhere...

for US, who have been here- coming up with & voting on the ratings... it makes a kind of sense....

but for new members it may be quite off-putting to get 1's with 14 ratings!

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ratings.... **UPDATED** (w/POLL!!)

  

by: RiaD

Sat Apr 10, 2010 at 10:47:53 AM EDT

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ratings

  

by: RiaD

Fri Apr 09, 2010 at 16:03:01 PM EDT

:O)
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fyi

  

by: RiaD

Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 11:53:53 AM EDT

FYI~

i've changed the way the "firefly endorses" blox is set up.

now each link goes to a static post that all the firefly editors can edit as new links are brought to our attention.

for the time being i've left commenting ON in those posts.

if you have a link that you feel should be on one of the lists, please post a comment, give your link & tell why this is a good business, manufacturer or whatever.

eventually i will put a "firefly ratings" system in place...
so you can tell at a glance if the place .... um... uses sustainable materials, treats its employees well, etc, etc

i might move "free things" & "superb organizations" to firefly endorses ...
what do you think?

i haven't quite got this all figured out.... ideas would be appreciated!

also.
i'm not quite satisfied with the arrangement of the bloxes on the left & right sidebars.
anybody got any ideas on how to rearrange them?

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to an unknown god

  

by: pfiore8

Tue Feb 23, 2010 at 14:26:47 PM EST

(gha! - promoted by RiaD)


Here's the thing. The truth? Useless. Facts, even more so. Reality? What the fuck is that?
There's only this: what people believe.

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Men often become what they believe themselves to be. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. Men often become what they believe themselves to be. Men often become what they believe themselves to be.
Mahatma Gandhi
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out of whack

  

by: pfiore8

Sun Feb 21, 2010 at 16:08:58 PM EST

( - promoted by Alma)

                 IRS Pictures, Images and Photos

A guy whacks his plane into an IRS building. Another guy whacks his home to ground with a bulldozer.

and I'm thinking...   the American Dream's thinning veneer is starting to show its cracks.

cross posted at Daily Kos and at docudharma

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