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Homosexuals have always been able to marry in all 50 states through a simple loophole in marriage law. They just have to marry someone of a different sex. That’s it. So simple.

The people who are trying to pass laws defining marriage as only between a man and a woman are missing out here. I suspect they want marriage to be defined as between a white christian man and a white christian women but this just shows how far they are able to bend there personal beliefs for political expediency.

Here is another great talk on education by David Eggers. It’s interesting, funny and exciting.
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Here is a delightful, amusing and touching talk by Sir Ken Robinson.
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I have a belief that probably isn’t going to be popular with some people.

It has to do with what motivates some people to to strive for achievement.

I think they’re probably unbalanced. They have a need to prove themselves because of some insecurity. They have some kind of fear which they’re fighting to allay or they have a chip on their shoulder which they’re trying to dislodge.

Here’s the background on why I think this.

I was reading Robert A Caro’s biography of Lyndon Johnson. Johnson’s father was an important man in his town and then he lost the farm both figuratively and literally.

Caro painted a vivid picture of how this deeply wounded Johnson and led to his absolute need to attain power and acquire riches.

The sort of behavior I’m characterizing is can be seen in the ‘Total War’ metaphor that underpins their actions.

Total War really came into it’s own in the early twentieth century. The concept was that war was not just fought with armies but with propaganda, misinformation, agent provocateurs, anything and everything was OK.

Our OSS, the precursor of the CIA, came out of this. It led to some seriously behavior (MK Ultra)

I bring this up as a means to look beneath the hood of some people. Just a way to ask yourself “What motivates them”?

And could I be talking about you……?

Many people have voiced the sentiment “Life is short”. I posit that life is too long.

If you don’t believe me, try staying awake through the whole thing. Really. Give it a week and you’ll be ready to die.

We only get through life because we break it down into smaller units and work our way through them. “One day at a time”.

I suggest that every time you go to sleep it marks the end of your life and that upon waking you’re starting a new one (reincarnation?).The device that links these separate lives into one continuous life is what I call “the underlying social contract”.

The underlying social contract states simply that you agree to be the same person today that you were yesterday. Think about it. Every day you continue to maintain your personal relationships and routines. Sure they alter over time but there is no “break”. And if there is a break then we assume that the person has undergone some kind of emotional or psychological trauma. In fact it is this repetition of behavior that makes life seem short.

Consider this. You drive somewhere for the first time. The route is new, the sites and landmarks are new. The trip seems to take a longer time because everything is different.Now imagine that this is your new commute. You’re driving there and back every day, month after month. You start to do it automatically. You view the route in short hand. It feels shorter and shorter.

The same thing happens in your life. As you look back over months or years of routine it doesn’t look that long. It’s been foreshortened.

Now imagine that you had spent the last few months walking to Argentina. Your memories would be so full of new experience and you would have gone through so many changes and adaptations that it would seem like forever.

The moral of all this is that life is as short as you make it.