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Quick refresher course: http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/02/great-scientology-secret.html As for love as a scientific principle, I'll resist the urge to quote eighties songs... let's just say the annals of science are a little light in this area.

Sounds a lot like the force. Does it involve midichloreans in any way? Is there a dark side? Seriously, don't mean to be sarcastic... but we're getting into L. Ron Hubbard territory here. I suspect you're just having a bit of fun. Maybe it was obvious the whole time and I'm a dullard for...

Give me a break, dude. I spent six months in Sydney and six years in Atlanta. Guess which one was far more racially divided.

Also: maybe there is a critical divide between belief systems that offer happiness in future and belief systems that focus on the present. All sweet visions have a similar characteristic: they do not yet exist. Happiness delayed is happiness not yet experienced. Singing hymns in heaven...

Interesting stuff. Not sure I'm following you though. I don't see how it would be possible to identify one's self as "love and only love" -- it is hard to get at the meat of such a statement. I must admit the phrase makes me snicker, if only because it brings to mind an old Lenny Kravitz...

humor plays its role too: http://throwawayyourtv.com/2006/02/phil-flag-guy.html

So are you engaging in meta-sarcasm here, or asserting these statements as objective truth, or merely offering an alternative belief system that strikes you as groovy? It seems to me there are plenty of useful reasons for death -- making room for the next generation being an obvious one --...

On the other hand, once, through the operation of grace, you make the act of faith that you “believe and profess all that the Catholic Church believes, teaches and proclaims to be revealed by God,”* while you may not understand every detail of every article of the faith.... that truth is...

Speaking of duality, interesting historical comment on Islam from the LA Times. I wonder how much this line of thinking applies to Catholicism. One could provocatively argue that Catholocism is weaker today for having not embraced the revelation / reason split. Johnny K's friend appears to...

Makes sense to me... ain't nothing wrong with going home flat. Didn't mean to imply there was. My comments were more oriented to the starry-eyed dreamers of this board... and nothing necessarily wrong with starry-eyed dreams, either. We all have to get our rocket fuel from somewhere. My...

article continues: Ms. Wahid is not imagining things. She points to other examples: "This is exactly the issue that just happened in Palestine. Because Hamas managed to portray themselves as the clean party. We do have parties like that as well [in Indonesia], like Hamas." Well-financed...

p.s. Tell this woman there is no battle, and consider that her country is right next door to Oz: Daughter of Islam An eloquent (and elegant) foe of Muslim fundamentalists. BY NANCY DE WOLF SMITH Saturday, February 25, 2006 12:01 a.m. EST WASHINGTON--Yenny Wahid has a smile that could...

There is no battle? Really? Tell that to Denmark... or more specifically, tell that to the Danish companies that have lost billions of dollars to a politically orchestrated boycott campaign that has leveraged Islam against them in multiple countries across the globe. Tell that to countries...

True -- but it's only a carrot if you choose to make it one. It's uncanny how people assume helplessness in the face of desires or perspectives they have total control over, and yet expend great energy trying to control or change that which can't be controlled or changed at all.

Well, Dan Zanger apparently turned $11,000 into $18 million in something like three years, with results verified by Fortune. Ed Seykota had accounts with 250,000 percent returns over 16 years. Warren Buffett's net worth essentially doubled in his sixties, and could theoretically double again...

Well sure it's meaningless, if you want it to be. It's a thought exercise --- the point is to fill in the blanks yourself and see where you wind up. And maybe get some insight from the answers you came up with.

In my opinion, the most interesting goals are the ones that demand creativity and introspection. Not just could you, but how the heck would you, if you tried. There's a big difference between a superficial target that makes one a little too greedy going into the close, and a mind-blowing...

Bush is amazing, absolutely amazing. The guy has managed to infuriate the likes of James Dobson and Maureen Dowd at the same time. Left and right joined together in harmonious chorus of WTF... a feat many would have deemed impossible. Talk about being "a uniter, not a divider." The...

Quit life in general -- ha ha, good one. Quick with the slings and arrows we are. Shall I turn the other cheek? You really did skew some of my positions quite badly in your recap, to the point of being obtuse. I was trying to be charitable in my withdrawal. I'll keep this final comment...

Guess I should specify 100MM accumulated, i.e. having 100MM worth of liquid assets at a single point in time, or something approaching it. Though again, the specific number doesn't make that much difference. Fifty million would suffice. Just well into the eight figure range. It's...