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I'm a mystical humanist with naturalistic leanings and receptivity to disclosure of the divine. I meander comfortably amid the Confucian-Taoist motifs and stories of my heritage. My religious vision is tempered by existentialism, grounded in earth-centered spiritualities, aligned with the wisdom of Western tradition, especially Judeo-Christian, and bathed in trustful agnosticism.
-- Tom Owen-Towle, Freethinking Mystics with Hands
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Men flow into life, and ebb into death.
Some are filled with life;
Some are empty with death;
Some hold fast to life, and thereby perish,
For life is an abstraction.
Those who are filled with life
Need not fear tigers and rhinos in the wilds,
Nor wear armour and shields in battle;
The rhinoceros finds no place in them for its horn,
The tiger no place for its claw,
The soldier no place for a weapon,
For death finds no place in them.
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JaBbA's Hut
White Hat Liberal Geek Dad
Friday, November 14. 2003
The question was: Is George W. Bush going to be re-elected next year?
Gore Vidal's Answer:
No. At least if there is a fair election, an election that is not electronic. That would be dangerous. We don’t want an election without a paper trail. The makers of the voting machines say no one can look inside of them, because they would reveal trade secrets. What secrets? Isn’t their job to count votes? Or do they get secret messages from Mars? Is the cure for cancer inside the machines? I mean, come on. And all three owners of the companies who make these machines are donors to the Bush administration. Is this not corruption?
So Bush will probably win if the country is covered with these balloting machines. He can’t lose.
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