i was always too scared as a child to swing too high or climb trees.
once, i was flung from a merry go round. it really wasnt as merry as the name would lead you to believe.
my foot got caught and it dragged my head on the gravel untill it slowed to a stop.
1 like humanity
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bytem
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Love changes everything
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"In the Province of the mind, what is believed true is true or becomes true, within limits to be found experimentally and experientially. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended. In the province of the mind there are no limits."
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Who will cry for the little boy
lost and all alone.
Who will cry for the little boy abandone without his own
Who will cry for the little boy he cried himself to sleep
Who will cry for the little boy who he never had for keeps
Who will cry for the little boy who walked the burning sand
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"now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the nonexistence of God.
"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to proove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith... Read More
I've long had a genie idea knocking around in the back of my head that had to do with hiring a team of really detail oriented lawyers draw up thousand page wishes so that the genie couldn't pull any of that "granting the wish but in an unintended way" shit.
You might want to check out the Harlan Ellison story "Djini, No Chaser," which is about a unique solution to a genie problem.