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Anil Bartwal
Hello Dear, Thank You for providing the useful and important information, the writing sequence is so preety. Recently i am reading Mercury Retrograde 2017 Topic. this is very interesting and...
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kender1
OMG you're still alive?
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Nasty Natasha
Dear Sir: This is perhaps the most unintentionally hilarious sexist screed I have ever seen. The amount of time you spend here rambling on about your penis is proof positive that said organ is, in...
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Lisa Taylor
Wow... this is crazy! I had actually considered taking my daughter (5) on a train ride just for the experience, but I'm glad that I read this "Buyer Beware" story first!! Hope you got your refund...
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arete5000
Kender: I have found that it is the personal pieces that hold the human interest because they are rooted in truth. You write very well, sir. Thank you for sharing that with me. Glenn.
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Tim High
Very well written.
Kenders' Musings: An Open Letter to the Kos Kids, · 12 years ago
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eddy smith
Makes ya realize you should have bought the house on the hill and a lift kit for the truck.
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Peter
Really Thanks for this!
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Wild Bill Kerr
Hey buddy, how you been? What you been up to? Love to get back in touch with you.
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kender1
Those aren't my blogs, and you come leave lies in my comment section, on my blog, uninvited and unwelcome and I am stalking YOU?
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kender1
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Feel free to post comments, rants, or even personal attacks. It simply shows your wish for taunting if you do the latter.
You can say anything you want here. But if you get stupid I reserve the right to point it out, call you lots of inventive names and laugh like hell.
Note: "right" either means this blogger is correct or that they lean right. I know what I mean by it. How do you take it?
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The name say it all
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See? I told you I had a liberal friend!!!
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(The infamous, the mysterious, the mostly hysterical Riverbend!!!!)
Now the bulk of us, at least in the developed world, are born into sterile delivery rooms with experienced professionals, modern medical equipment and a whole host of other goodies to make the experience much safer and much less painful. And we live our lives with this mindset, that there will always be someone around with the experience and equipment to make our lives safer and less painful.
If you think about these two situations it is the perfect metaphor, when you consider the implications of both situations and what expectations they give us, for a major problem we face in America today. Namely the idea that life should be safer and less painful, for everyone, and it's the governments job to provide that for us. The problem is this; even though we have these experienced professionals and these wondrous drugs and tools, for all of our technology and wisdom life is essentially the same.
Life is inherently not a safe endeavor, nor is it painless, and no matter how badly we wish for utopia the truth of life makes it impossible. Humanity thrives only when challenged. Hand humans a life of safety free from pain and you will end up with caged animals, unable to take care of themselves in even the slightest capacity. Like animals born into captivity they become dependent upon their keepers.
Where would we be had we, as a species, enacted some sort of socialist utopian vision where the government took care of your essential needs in, say, the 17th century? Would we have automobiles? Most likely not. Would we have gone to space? Almost definitely a no. Telephones? Televisions? Modern medical equipment or drugs? Almost certainly none of the advances that make living in the developed world in the 21st century would have happened had we lived in a society where all you needed was handed to you.
As I said, humanity thrives only when challenged. I, for one, prefer the challenge of standing on my own two feet, seeing what I can accomplish without it being handed to me. The pride in success, the self esteem from accomplishment, the rewards of overcoming obstacles and reaching goals chosen, and met, of my own accord cannot possibly be outweighed by becoming a kept subject, reliant upon those in power, trading my liberty for the surety of a bed and a meal. Of course there is always the possibility of failure.
But I will take failure and freedom over servitude and surety anytime.