WAIT ! - help is just a call away

Suicide is not a wish to die
It's a cry for help

People who die by suicide do not want to die
they simply want to end the pain

-says Nona Walia in TOI today


i been here
i no

Helplines
Given below are organisations in the metro that offer counselling and other help.
http://tnaids.tn.nic.in/helplines.htm

u may speak to me too
sabydasouza@yahoo.com

HEALTH EDUCATION
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The most honored love is the self...
so love yourself the best you can
cause the world will not be beautiful unless you are inside. ,

,Satori386

i have lived and loved 56 years on dis planet
i didnt find love at home

but i found love in dis crazy blog world
i found beautiful people here

dont ever give up on love
it took me 56 years to find my love

but i am glad i waited


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religion, an evil created by the followers of religious men

A good blog on dis subject http://17namaste45.blogspot.com/
pointed out by Annony mouse below

the cuss of religion

Muslims Prove Point of Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II
I was raised Catholic but left it for non-denominational Christianity in the very early 70's. I say this to let you know I do not consider the Pope the successor of Saint Peter 'heir apparent' in direct line with St. Peter nor do I believe in Papal infallibility.I will still defend the Pope on his right to quote from the Emperor Manuel Paleologos II or any other emperor or pauper for that matter. He can quote from Anton LaVey's Satanic Bible if he so chooses. For those who missed it:
The pope quoted from a book recounting a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and a Persian scholar on the truths of Christianity and Islam."The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the Pope said."He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,'" Most news sites I read stopped short of adding the following lines - - Link Here - But in reiterating his concerns about a modern world "deaf" to God, he warned that other religious cultures saw the West's exclusion of God "as an attack on their most profound convictions"."A reason which is deaf to the divine and which relegates religion into the realm of subcultures is incapable of entering into the dialogue of cultures," he said.
This is what the Pope quoted the emperor as saying, stated himself and the majority of the speech is not being reported. The section on Islam was very short... He did not explicitly agree with nor repudiate the quote. Benedict said "I quote" twice to stress the words were not his and added that violence was "incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul".~~~~~Turkey's top Islamic cleric, Religious Affairs Directorate head Ali Bardakoglu, asked Benedict on Thursday to apologize about the remarks and unleashed a string of accusations against Christianity, raising tensions before the pontiff's planned visit to Turkey in November on what would be his first papal pilgrimage in a Muslim country. - News link here - So Ali Bardakoglu can unleash "a string of accusations against Christianity" but the Pope can't quote from an old book!~~~~~~"We do not accept the apology through Vatican channels . . . and ask him to offer a personal apology . . . to Muslims for this false reading (of Islam)," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah told worshippers in his Friday prayers sermon.Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah shows his devoted followers how to walk in forgiveness... ~~~~~~"Anyone who describes Islam as a religion as intolerant encourages violence," Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said.She should have added, "We won't tolerate being called intolerant!"~~~~~~"Muslims have the right to be angry and hurt by these comments from the highest cleric in Christianity," Qaradawi said on Al Jazeera.Qaradawi shows his ignorance of "OTHER" religions. The pope is the 'highest cleric' in Catholicism. There is no HIGHEST CLERIC in Christianity. - Muslums need to learn how to shake it off and let 'Allah' defend himself. Isn't that what floods, tsunamis and earthquakes are for?~~~~~The Pope's comments were a hot topic on a pro-Hamas radio show for children."What do you say about the man who said some bad words about Islam and the Prophet Mohammad?" the radio host asked eight-year-old Hanin."He is ugly and his words are ugly," she answered.Don't teach you children to pray for the "salvation" of peoples souls. Don't teach them to pity and feel sorry for those "outside of the faith'. Heaven forbid you should teach your children to get over it. There will be people that disagree with your faith and way of life...prying1 sez: I Thank God there has been no rioting yet however Friday, a Greek Orthodox church youth center in the Gaza Strip was slightly damaged due to a small explosion which broke doors and shattered glass. The church itself was not damaged and there were no injuries. - It cannot be shown to be a result of the Popes statements. These statements from Muslum people that should (or perhaps do) know better are more inflamatory than the Pope's speech. Especially when you put the Pope's words back into context. August of 04 car bomb attacks on five Catholic churches in Iraq brought out Muslim bigwigs to say things like the following:"We regret that such criminal acts have targeted our Christian brothers and we urge them to display restraint as did before their Muslim brothers, when their mosques and holy places were targeted as well," spokesman Mohammad Bashar Al-Faidi told a press conference in Baghdad.Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, the country's most revered Shiite Muslim spiritual leader, also condemned the attacks."We denounce and condemn those terrible crimes... We should all, government and people, be working together in order to put an end to the attacks against Iraqis," said a statement from his office in the holy city of Najaf .Where were the Muslums with signs and denouncing the terrorists then?
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi- the man we called Maha Atma

Contributed by annonymouses

.. Anonymous said...
the biggest happiness in the world is to make someone happy & the biggest sin is to make someone cry..try to follow these 2 things in life..

Anonymous said...
You must be the change u wish to see in the world
Again a very deep hitting thought by Gandhi. I can very much relate this thought to present condition of India and most developing nations. Basic social issues like cleanlessness, illiteracy, corruption, dishonesty, lack of unity and national integrety are very much issues of individual. But stacks of such issues lead to an incapable society and hence an inefficient goverment in democracy. Also as Jawaharlal Nehru said that in democracy, a government is as good and efficient as its citizen. This thought of Gandhi was way ahead of it's time and completly applicable to todays scenarios.


Anonymous said...
Gandhi is not just about big ideas. Here are some practical ways to follow Gandhi,- Stand in line while trying to get railway tickets.- Wait till someone gets off the train and then board the train(Gandhi’s principal – respect other’s rights)- switch of the light once you don’t need it. Don’t keep water running while brushing your teeth.. (Gandhi – Do not use anything more then you need)- Refuse to pay bribes. (Gandhi – who participates in wrong is equally responsible)- Try to educate one person, may be the maid at your home (Gandhi – education for masses)- Do not through plastic bags or any ‘kachara’ on road (Gandhi- cleanliness); try to collect ‘kachara’ from road. Picking up a thrown chocolate wrapper or plastic bag would help keeping India cleaner.- Try to help some old/poor/sick person.- Spend your income for well being of your society and family. (Gandhi- principle of trusteeship)- If you have choice between Indian good and western good.Try to buy ‘made in india’ thing. Choose ‘Bajaj’ over ‘Honda’.Choose 'Vada Pav' over 'Burger'.Choose local 'Nariyal Pani'wala over 'Coke'.Or at least by what has been manufactured in India. (Gandhi- Savdeshi. )Please don't tell me that this won't work in age of globalization. The countries who forced our way in to free market economy adovacates this formula.
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Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Mistakes]
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Happiness]
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
Mahatma Gandhi
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
Mahatma Gandhi
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mahatma Gandhi
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
Mahatma Gandhi
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Silence]
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Laziness]
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Violence]
It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Wisdom]
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
Mahatma Gandhi
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Forgiveness]
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Mahatma Gandhi
- More quotations on: [Mankind]
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi, "Non-Violence in Peace and War"
- More quotations on: [War]
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
Mahatma Gandhi, 'Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13,' May 3, 1919
- More quotations on: [Violence] [Defeat] [Victory]
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi, (attributed)
- More quotations on: [Revenge]
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
Mahatma Gandhi, 1931
I think it would be a good idea.
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
- 43 Quotations in other collections- We have 2 book reviews related to Mahatma Gandhi.- Search for Mahatma Gandhi at Amazon.com

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the best (worst) of Orikinla
the most controversial film Naked Beauty to shoot on Bonny Island and I need to secure more investors to begin the filming soon. See http://nakedbeautyfilm.blogspot.com

Naked BeautyI saw you in the twilight
Disrobed in the state of nature

And I gaped and gasped in awesome delight
Spellbound and elated in rapture

As I beheld your voluptuous features
As I gazed upon your priceless treasures

From peak of the mountainI went down to the fountain
In the valley of your mons veneris

And holding on to your alluring pillars
I have been transfixed at the altar of your estuary

The estuary of your conjugal sanctuary.
I saw the falconer trading his falconWith the bounty hunter for his gun

Lost in their lust for your connubial offerings
Spellbound by the allures of your charms

And I came in the fleeting mist of the fleeing night
To behold you even before the Aurora Borealis

And saw you embracing the heavenly light
As Father Heaven kissed Mother Earth

And you were enchanted in heavenly mirth
Oblivious of my winking mortal eyes

Hypnotized in the ether of celestial bliss.
At the unveiling of the beloved daughter of Eve

Made perfect in the bowels of boundless love.
Let the fire be kindled in my heart

The eternal flame of my spiritThe breath of eternity
The ether of life formed in purity

Born bare and born free
As my enchanted eyes can now see

Freed from the chains of pains
The pains of natal travails

Oh! Woman!
Thou art the vessel of motherhood.
And in thy mammary gourds abound our first food

How much every man in bound to thy loins
For from the canal every man is born

Through the third eye of Eve where love flows
From the seed sown the fruit is grown

The sweetest fruit of love is found in the virgin
To behold your naked beauty is not a sin.

~~ Orikinla Oosinachi, 2006.

, , If life's a bitch, then i am a stray dog... Don't come to this place if u can't handle truth, truth is always bitter, rude and explicit... , ,
-SOUTH http://rockybalboa752001.blogspot.com/

Keshi it took me 56 years to get here

SOUTH has arrived already
u need to get there too

if u cant remember the 10 commandments
it dont matter

just remember wat Jesus said

LOVE ALL
(and u will do no evil)

an insight i gott during the heavy booze session with my pals at Jalgaon

dis guy loves me

dis guy has gott the hotz for me
i dont want to break his heart

i dont have the heart to tell him i am not gay
go here http://rockybalboa752001.blogspot.com/ and tell him pleeeeezzz


saby says:

'I will live till i die'

'i have the hottz for TANVI'

'have no fear
have no shame
and nobody can hurt u'

'u owe it to yourself to pursue your happiness'
(the American constitution guarantees u the right to the pursuit of happiness)

'u only live once'
(there may be no heaven above
no hell below)

'make someone happy
and u will be happy too'

God is not religion
Jesus is anti-religion
anti rules

u dont need Pope Benedict
to understand God's commandment
'Love one another as i love u'


PS:
Happiness is being in love with yourself and having all u need
Happiness is not wanting another so bad (LOVE)
so dat the loved one becomes a crutch

in DARR, SRK was in a pitiable state


LOVE adds to my happiness though

Nicotine and alcohol and mood drugs are crutches too
so is the good life: fancy cars, Clubs, night life in fancy restaurants, holidays in Europe

if u can reduce your needs
u dont need a high paying job
u dont need to lick ass (your boss)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
reduced his basic needs to the minimum
he even got rid of his craving for sex

read 'My Experiments with Truth'
- MK Gandhi

i got over my craving for sex
just by growing old
-Saby

BIRTHDAY BASH IS ON HERE http://keshigirl.blogspot.com/2006/09/someone-like-you.html

Dress Code: Just wear a big smile and nutting else

France Vs America

Myths about France
1. The French are extreme cultural protectionists. Not true. The French do spend large amounts of money pretending they are cultural protectionists and making noise in various international arenas. And the language restrictions are binding on audiovisual media. But for the most part France is quite open to foreign cultures. Just trying seeing a foreign film in Paris, you'll hardly find a better place.
2. French labor productivity is about as high as that of the United States. Call this one a half-truth. The measured average productivity is close, in part because French labor law discourages low-wage, low-productivity jobs. A better test is if a French-English bilingual person moves from one country to the other, where is productivity higher? I'll put my money on the United States.
3. Within fifty years, France will be half Islamic. Very unlikely, read this sober assessment of the demographics.
4. Frenchmen hate the United States. Personally I've never found this to be true. I've spent maybe three months of my life in this country, and I can't recall one time that anyone was ever rude to me. Can I say that about any other country? Remember that many peoples distinguish between citizenries and governments more than Americans do. In this regard the French are more libertarian then we Americans are. Here is one look at the poll evidence on whether the French hate Americans.
5. French culture dried up after World War II. OK, French painting has not been impressive, though I am fond of Yves Klein. But try Georges Perec, Robert Bresson, or Olivier Messiaen, or Yves Nat for some brighter moments. Let's not forget the key role of Paris in supporting music from Africa and the Arabic world. (America isn't the only country which should get credit for the culture of its immigrants.) Nor is French rap a total wasteland.
The bottom line: France, like the United States, is very good at confounding our expectations.
Posted by Tyler Cowen on May 28, 2006 at 01:24 AM in Data Source Permalink
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"French labor productivity is about as high as that of the United States. Call this one a half-truth."
I'm not sure I agree. French productivity per hour is recorded as 20% higher than that in the US by the OECD. While you can account for some of this due to the disincentives for low wage jobs, it seems pretty reasonable to say that it doesn't account for 20%.
Additionally, one would imagine that if the French were less productive per hour, their companies would be less competitive, which they aren't.
This point can be generalised across Europe where per hour productivity is close to that of the US. All old European countries have more restrictive labour laws than the US yet large European companies do not have competitiveness problems.
Posted by: Finnsense at May 28, 2006 3:16:39 AM
“4. Frenchmen hate the United States. Personally I've never found this to be true…I can't recall one time that anyone was ever rude to me.”
What does that have to do with anything? The statement that is claimed to be a "myth" was that Frenchmen hate the US as a nation, not individual Americans.
Nor is that the same as opposing US policy or the US “government”. It is a resentment to the power of American as a *nation*, misinformed and negative views about American society, paranoid suspicions about American motives and an instinctive opposition to everything America does. This is hardly a “myth”, and has nothing to do with people being rude to individual Americans.
Just as a simple example according to this Pew poll France is the only country where the majority think the world would become less dengarous if another country than the US became the global superpower (maybe they think that alternative would be France, in which case they are not only anti-American, but also delusional). Even most people in Russia, Jordan and Morocco understand how insane this is! http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=796
“Remember that many peoples distinguish between citizenries and governments more than Americans do. In this regard the French are more libertarian then we Americans are. “
I don’t know what Cowen bases this view of Americans on. I am from Americas arguably worst enemy, and have never in my life had any American act negative to me for this reason (as oppose to Europeans). Do Americans tend to be rude to the French? I strongly doubt it, even tough France is objectively more hostile in it’s actions against the US than vice versa.
The interesting test is not how you waiter treats you, but talking politics to Frenchmen. You will in 80-90% of cases get a lot of hostility towards the US, and massive amounts of leftist disinformation. As an example 58% of the French vs 18% of Americans think the US motive in foreign policy is to “control mildest oil”.
For all intents and purposes the statement “Frenchmen hate the United States” is a true generalization. Frenchmen hate individual Americans I am sure is not, but that is irrelevant.It is important that Americans understand the preferences in Europe if they want to understand their policy. If anything Americans underestimate the hateful preferences of French voters and politicians. France was never driven in financial gains in opposing the invasion of Iraq, nor the well being of America (or the Iraqi). America wanted to do it, so France was against it. That is.
I do agree with the demography argument tough, Americans overestimate how many Muslims there are in Europe.
Posted by: Teller at May 28, 2006 3:43:57 AM
“While you can account for some of this due to the disincentives for low wage jobs, it seems pretty reasonable to say that it doesn't account for 20%”
You are wrong, on two accounts. First of all according to the OECD the French are 1% more productive per market hour worked than Americans, not 20% (I have no idea where on earth you get this figure, sounds like a Krugmanism to me).
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/17/36396820.xls
Secondly Americans are fully 37% more productive per person (incidentally native non-Hispanics whites Americans are an amazing 65% more productive than the French per capita). Per capita Americans work 39% more market hours than the French, the most important reason is that the US has a smaller proportion of it’s population out of work (they also work more per worker).
Before people start babbling about the French valuing their leisure more: Time survey data indicates the differences in hours worked is NOT the French having more leisure (they have roughly equal), but more marketisation of services and the US and thus fewer hours worked in the household.
Posted by: Teller at May 28, 2006 3:55:27 AM
It is funny come to think of it that the 1% French productivity per hours worked advantages is so widely known and emphasized, whereas the 37% US wealth per person advantage is ignores. I guess the left really is starved with arguments.
Posted by: Teller at May 28, 2006 3:57:29 AM
Obs I made a mistake, Non-Hispanic whites Americans are only 50% more productive than the French, not 65% (I should have compared to the US average, not to the non-whites). Sorry.
I get this figure by multiplying the US-French per capita advantage by the non-Hispanic white-US income advantage.
Posted by: Teller at May 28, 2006 4:09:46 AM
Some new entries for my Dictionary of Economic Blogspeak:
A “half-truth” is a statement which is true, but which can be accounted for by institutional differences (which of course makes it less true).
A “better test” is a test which is carried out in the imagination and which produces the desired answer.
Posted by: Kevin Donoghue at May 28, 2006 5:38:04 AM
"Personally I've never found this to be true. I've spent maybe three months of my life in this country, and I can't recall one time that anyone was ever rude to me. Can I say that about any other country?"
Fair enough. Opposing anecdote -- my father's experience on holiday in Paris a few years ago was quite the reverse. He found that Parisian waiters were personally rude to him, e.g. snatching menus out of his hands to give to French customers. Possibly this is because he looks extremely American (sometimes even to the Hawaiian print shirts). To round out the reverse: France is the only country where this sort of thing has happened to him -- not in Turkey, nor Mexico, nor Japan, nor Korea, nor Germany, nor Austria, nor Italy has anyone ever been as rude to him as were the French.
Now, this is only anecdote, and statistics may show otherwise. But I introduce this just as a counter to your anecdote -- your experience is not necessarily representative.
Posted by: Taeyoung at May 28, 2006 9:00:46 AM
"4. Frenchmen hate the United States. Personally I've never found this to be true. I've spent maybe three months of my life in this country, and I can't recall one time that anyone was ever rude to me. Can I say that about any other country? Remember that many peoples distinguish between citizenries and governments more than Americans do. In this regard the French are more libertarian then we Americans are. Here is one look at the poll evidence on whether the French hate Americans."
I've found this to be true in most instances that Europeans are very nice to Americans (with the exception of some bad experiences with british tourists), but the other points brought up by some posters are true too. Some Europeans and even Canadains have utterly ridicilous views of the U.S. which they're more than willing to vent in private. I spent one night with a group of British, Canada, and New Zealand folks who discussed an American from Florida and how they couldn't beleive he didn't have a country accent and speculated on his views on race and politics, but concluded he was over all a nice guy. I've also lived in apartments with British and Canadain folks who had long discussions about U.S. obesity problems. I also met a British woman who refused to beleive that irony is a popular form of humor in the U.S. Her reasons for this were said in a rather kind way, but basically hinted that she didn't think Americans had the intelligence or class to be truly ironic. I might add though that some Americans have absolutely no problem being incredibly rude to other Americans. I have meet 5 people from the "bay area" who have been incredibly rude to me becuase I came to Asia from Alabama. There does seem to be a bit of a lynch mob mentality at times, I once discussed gun control and when I mentioned that I was against it, I was beraded by "bay area" folks who chanted "I'm from Alabama" and asked me if they still burn people down there etc. While not as annoying or offensive, The same goes for some people in Asia. I've been asked if I went to work on a horse etc. The horse part I have to admit is true, I can ride one and my mom works on a horse ranch in Virginia =)All that said disinformation and shit talking is implicit in any individual and with the exception of other Americans, I've found discussions are open and often interesting.
Posted by: andrew jones at May 28, 2006 9:06:10 AM
Since most Americans probably limit their visits to Paris when visiting France, they probably encounter some "big city attitude" which you're just as likely to encounter in NYC. However, I had *not one* single bad experience in Paris. I did have one out in the country (Normandy), but I think her problem was that it was the 60th anniversary of Normandy, the Brits seemed to be invading the country all over again, and she associated me with that lot (how's that for an irony-rich scenario?). Bottom line: I liked France and would like to visit again, despite the reputation.
Regarding productivity - all you have to do is look at their reaction to the few Polish plumbers trying to work there to figure out Tyler is right about the effect of labor laws.
Posted by: Eric H at May 28, 2006 9:42:03 AM
Teller,
I got it from here: "http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/28/18/36396770.xls" and adjusted for currency. The French average is €40 per hour worked and the US is $42.4 per hour worked. At today's exchange rate (€1 = $1.28) that gives you a French total of $51.2. That gives you a difference of about 17%. We can argue about whether PPP is useful and or would/should give a different figure but I didn't invent the statistic.
As to your comments about people ignoring the full productivity statistics I don't know where you live or what you watch but in my experience it's completely the other way around.
Also, like it or not, it's very plausible that Americans do work much more because they have to and Europeans do work a lot less because they want to and because they can. My brother works in NYC and testifies to the feelings of guilt everyone in his office has if they work a normal 40 hour week. My sister lives in Boston and tells me she only gets 10 days of paid holiday a year (I get 25). My cousin also lives in NYC and tells me she's going back to work four months after having a kid because they need her salary. My wife got 80% of her salary for a year and additional support for the following two years.
These are personal stories but it would be extremely odd if the people I know have similar experiences to those everyone always talks about and they just happened to be either unlucky or lying. I'm no fan of the French but there's no point sticking your head in the sand.
Posted by: Finnsense at May 28, 2006 9:53:20 AM
1. I agree with TC. Everyone spoke English; English-language menus and signs were everywhere. There's much more official recognition of English in Paris than Spanish in Los Angeles. The one sign of cultural protectionism I saw was an apparently regulation that required the footnoting of posters when they had non-French phrases to translate the phrases into French. But the McDonalds were full, even though their only concession to France was to offer a goat cheese salad.
2. When Slim and I were in Paris last week, she turned to me and said something to the effect of "I don't understand how anyone gets anything done. The stores are always closed, and require lots of standing in line when they're open." It doesn't surprise me a whit that the French have about 70% of the working hours but just as many leisure hours as the US.
And an average hour's wage has to go a lot less far than in the US. Quality French cheese, wine, bread, perfume, and couture were mildly cheaper (though, unlike the US, there were few options for cheap cheese, cheap wine, or cheap perfume), but everything else was much more expensive. The skinny little International Herald Tribune was two euros, for crying out loud.

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Dr. John's Fortress: From atheist to disgustingly religious

'I was hungry and u didnt give me to eat ...'

'I was desperate for booze and u didnt offer me'


Americans are funny people
they have PRIDE

a friend of mine was broke, really broke
but she tried to look cheerful

until i realized she hadnt had a square meal for days
it hurt me

i was hurt coz she didnt tell me
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Crashtest Comic said...
Nea:That reminds me of the parable of the horse and the chicken.A chicken was walking by the road when he saw a horse stuck in the mud-pit. "Pull me out, I'll drown!" pleaded the horse.The chicken couldn't pyshically move the horse, so he ran down the road, & found a motorcycle. Using a bungee chord from the back of the bike, the chicken sucessfully towed the greatful horse to safety.A few days later, the same horse is walking past the same mud-pit, and sure enough the very same chicken is stuck in the mud."Pull me out, I'll drown!" says the chicken.The horse says: "Don't worry little friend, I'll save you!"The horse stradles the mud-pit, unfurling his huge schlong-ola. The chicken grabs it and is pulled to safety.The moral of the story: If you're hung like a horse you don't need a Harley to pick up chicks.(*That's from the Bible, I think.)
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Finding love is as important as finding air. Almost everything we are wanting boils down to us wanting love or us wanting happiness. We think we will find love "out there," so we look for a partner to make us happy. Sometimes we find such a person, and it seems to satisfy our hunger for love at least for a while. It is hard to find lasting love outside. Yet most people keep looking for it out there, and seldom do they look where love always can be found: inside our own hearts.
The following information in this article should be exactly what you are looking for and I hope it helps you.
This notion of love within us is so easily dismissed as false, or sappy, or mythical that we write it off before we even give it a chance. But it is so vital, so real, and so simple. Finding love is always in inside task.
How do you find love within? Finding love is something to approach properly. Well, in a way you do not have to find it because you are it. A spiritual book called A Course in Miracles says: "Teach only love, for that is what you are." This means to share your true self. Teach not only with words, but also with the fullness of your heart. Your inner most being, you deepest light, is pure love.
You-as-love may not be what you now think of yourself to be. You may feel like you are a mind, a bundle of busy thoughts and random feelings. But this is only the superficial level of "you." Beneath all that, you are love. You are pure light.
The thoughts and feelings at the surface are often your mind's attempt to look for love. They are just part of you, a small part. Usually this search comes in the form of looking outside for a romantic partner. Your thoughts and emotions then are always directed in an outward search. Simply put, your mind believes it will find love out side itself.
So, how is it going? Has it worked for you? Has it really worked? Be honest.
If you cease to look for love outside (usually by truing to find romance or approval), you will still want love, but you will more easily sense it within. Be willing to stop your search all together.
"Oh come on, I can't do that! Give me a break! Everyone looks for love!" The need for finding love is the common denominator among people.
Which part of you just said that? Or said something similar? Was it the mind or was it the heart that already is love? It had to have been the mind. The simple truth is this: your mind will still search for love, but your heart alone feels it.
So when I say "stop searching for love" what I mean is that your mind will not necessarily stop searching but its search does not have to be all consuming. Do not take its search so seriously, and instead be the love that you are. Start finding love in yourself, despite your mind's attempt to find it elsewhere. This is the key.
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email security

The following are true stories, but false names are used to ensure the victims' anonymity.

When "Lucy" and "Ricky" exchanged wedding vows, they said nothing about email privacy. During their marriage, Lucy found it easy to guess Ricky's email password. After all, she was his wife and knew how his mind works.

One day Lucy began to suspect that Ricky was being unfaithful to her, and reading his email confirmed her suspicion. She never told him that she was intercepting his email, and he never suspected that's how she discovered his infidelity. Even after their divorce, she still keeps tabs on him by reading his email: he still doesn't know.

When personal relationships go bad, a boyfriend, girlfriend, spouse or other significant other may access their partner's email for a variety of reasons: curiosity, suspicion, evidence-gathering, and revenge are just a few. The person doing the accessing is in an ideal position to either know the email password outright � having been told it or having seen it being typed � or to guess it using intimate knowledge gained during the relationship.

There are also a variety of ways that such email account access can be abused. A hostile person could merely read headers or names of senders. Or, they could read the emails themselves. Or delete messages. Or reply to messages, impersonating the sender. Or worse.

When "Fred" and "Ethel" separated, Fred knew Ethel's email password � and she never changed it. After Ethel started an affair with a fellow teacher, Fred exacted his revenge by forwarded Ethel's clandestine messages to her principal and colleagues, damaging her career and reputation.

Mike Rothman, president of Atlanta-based security industry analyst firm Security Incite, noted that damage to email isn't as bad as some other behaviors in similar situations, such as emptying bank accounts and maxing out credit cards. "However," he said, "we have noticed that partners snooping in each others' email is increasing in scope."

While these examples of a violation of email security are serious are often personally devastating, they affect primarily the individuals involved. Such a violation though could easily be more far-reaching. For example, many Web sites use email addresses as usernames. A hostile person could gain access to any of these Web sites, using their partner's username and knowing or guessing their password, to spread the damage to bank accounts, investments, online forums and more.

An angry partner could also use the hijacked email account for social engineering attacks. Pretending to be the genuine user, they could send emails to anyone, gaining information, spreading disinformation, or any of dozens of worse tricks.

Such tactics become especially dangerous when a business or corporate email account is involved. In this situation, the hostile person can not only damage their former love, but also the security of his or her business. That could mean obtaining and divulging sensitive information, ruining relationships with coworkers, partners and customers and disrupting normal business operations irreparably. This interference could continue for weeks or months without being detected.

This is a type of attack that is extremely difficult for any security officer to defend against. When a trusted user � which the hostile person impersonates � performs allowed actions using permitted access, there is no sure-fire way to stop them. The one hope is to detect the pattern of damage and contain it as quickly as possible.

There is only one defence and, from a purely rational point of view, it is simple. Regardless of their relationship status, individuals can protect against these nightmarish scenarios by changing passwords frequently and not revealing them to anyone. In some cases, doing so might be viewed by a spouse or partner as a violation of trust. If you trust someone with your life and most intimate secrets, shouldn't you also trust them with your passwords?

Rothman suggested that security officers use email education to help head off problems. "Proper use of passwords is important," he said, "but users also must separate personal use of email from work email."

In addition to maintaining strong passwords, perhaps the only sensible guideline from an enterprise perspective is to advise trusted users to establish strict boundaries between accounts they use for business purposes and personal ones. When a relationship deteriorates to the point where suspicion and separation replace trust and intimacy, it may be impossible to protect one's emotional self, but at least corporate information security won't be the victim of a broken heart.

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Americans are weird

really weird
go here http://imnutsincapsyanks.blogspot.com/2006/02/american-humour.html

This S#%t drives me CRAZY!!!: Gotta Luv Thy Neighbor#comments#comments

This S#%t drives me CRAZY!!!: Gotta Luv Thy Neighbor#comments#comments

remeniscening Janice

as i near my 56 th bday
i tink about Janice

we made a pact
if i go first
i reserve the seat next to me for her
and vice versa

she cheated she was only 27
and went first

how do u begin to tell the story about a swet girl named Janice
who new me as Julia

until i told her dat i was Saby
and old enuff to be her grandpa

as Julia i educated dis girl about love and sex
dis girl who wudnt kiss her dad
who tot she wud get preg if she did so


sighhhh
dis was Janice

she lived in Mumbai
and never saw Marine Drive
until Chris took her there on his mobike

she saw California too with Chris


another one remembers here http://starshine1.com/LaPointe/I_Will_Remember_You.html

the american dream - a dream for all the people of all the nations

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"If you have only two pennies left in the world, with the first penny, you should buy rice to feed your family. With the second penny, say the wise Japanese, you should buy a lily. The Japanese understand the importance of dreaming..." http://www.weyrd.org/lilies.html
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-Anon.

"For in the end it is Middle-Earth and its dwellers that we love, not Tolkien's considerable gifts in showing it to us. I said once that the world he charts was there long before him, and I still believe it. He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams."
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-Peter S. Beagle, from the Forward to The Fellowship of the Ring

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"Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there."
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-E. M. Cioran, The Tempation to Exist

What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heavenand there plucked an strange and beautiful flower?And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand?Ah, what then?
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-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake."
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-Erich Fromm, The Forgotten Language

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now. According to: http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.html "the lines are attributed to John Anster in a 'very free translation' of Faust from 1835" See author: W. H. Murray
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-Johann von Goethe

I wept in my dreams. I dreamed you lay in the grave;I awoke, and the tearsstill poured down my cheeks.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you had left me;I awoke and I went on weeping long and bitterly.I wept in my dreams,I dreamed you were still kind to me;I awoke, and stillthe flow of my tears streams on.
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-Heinrich Heine

Cherish your vision and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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-Napoleon Hill

"If you force the trail to emerge and turn with your every command, then most likely it will only become what you imagined. If you just enjoy the anticipation of each new curve and seize it as it comes, the road around the bend might lead to the unimaginable."
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-Bryan Hufalar, (quotation submitted to Quoteland)

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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-Carl Gustav Jung

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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-Thomas Edward Lawrence (of Arabia)

"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
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-E. V. Lucas, 365 Days and One More

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.
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-Orison Swett Marden

Sweet is the dream, divinely sweet, when absent souls in fancy meet.
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-Sir Thomas More

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country."
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-Anais Nin, The Diaries of Anaïs Nin

"Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now,Thus much let me avow--You are not wrong who deemThat my days have been a dream;Yet if hope has flown awayIn a night, or in a day,In a vision, or in none,Is it therefore the less gone?All that we see or seemIs but a dream within a dream."
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-Edgar Allan Poe, Dream Within A Dream, A

"A man's dreams are an index to his greatness."
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We have within reach, now, the attainment of almost every dream of mankind. as cited by Susan Sackett, author of "Inside Trek: A Star Trek Memoir", used with permission
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-Gene Roddenberry, on receiving his honorary Doctorate at Emerson College, Boston in the early 1970s

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
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-Eleanor Roosevelt

“We must nurture our dreams like we would a child. They are God-given and just as precious. Without ambition how would a child learn to ride a bicycle, play an instrument or whistle? We deny the spirit of God when we as adults settle for less than our dreams!”
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-Conway Stone

“Dreaming is not an accident. It is not a wistful idea you hope will come true. Dreaming is not the stuff of long-haired hippies wistfully running along a beach. No! Dreaming is a sophisticated tool used by the elite of our society to make themselves and this world a better place. People like Millard Fuller, founder of Habitat for Humanity, Warren Buffet, Col. Sanders and Walt Disney all started with a dream. The dreams started small, but like the trickle of water that eventually formed the great Grand Canyon, DREAMS ARE POWERFUL!”
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-Conway Stone

We bless and curse ourselves. Some dreams are divine, as well as some waking thoughts. Donne sings of one "Who dreamt devoutlier than most use to pray." Dreams are the touchstones of our characters. We are scarcely less afflicted when we remember some unworthiness in our conduct in a dream, than if it had been actual, and the intensity of our grief, which is our atonement, measures inversely the degree by which this is separated from an actual unworthiness. For in dreams we but act a part which must have been learned and rehearsed in our waking hours, and no doubt could discover some waking consent thereto. If this meanness has not its foundation in us, why are we grieved at it? In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake. But an unwavering and commanding virtue would compel even its most fantastic and faintest dreams to respect its ever wakeful authority; as we are accustomed to say carelessly, we should never have dreamed of such a thing. Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. http://national-library.elecbook.net/830.html
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-Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
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-John Updike

For my own part, I declare I know nothing whatever about it. But to look at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots of a map representing towns and villages. Why, I ask myself, should the shining dots of the sky not be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? If we take the train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. One thing undoubtedly true in this reasoning is this: that while we are alive we cannot get to a star, any more than when we are dead we can take the train.
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-Vincent van Gogh, Letter to Theo van Gogh, July 9, 1888

"It is a good viewpoint to see the world as a dream. When you have something like a nightmare, you will wake up and tell yourself that it was only a dream. It is said that the world we live in is not a bit different from this."
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-Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. published in the collection "The Wind Among the Reeds" and quoted in the movie "Equilibrium" (2002)
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-William Butler Yeats, He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, 1899


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