[MD] Protestant Capitalism

[MarshaV]

At 05:47 PM 5/20/2009, you wrote:
> > > >Marsha
> > > >I call, write and email my Senators and Representative, and
> > > >participate a little in local politics, but politics makes me
> > > >ill.   So yes, basically I've got nuthin.
> > > >
> > > >[Krimel]
> > > >So you send them song lyrics and e-mails with links to YouTubes of cute
> > > >kittens?
> > > >
> > > >You carry packages of Rolaids to city council meetings?
> > > >
> > > >I could use an Advil or Percocets if you could spare a couple. I feel a
> > > > bout of cognitive dissonance coming on...
> > >
> > >Marsha
> > >What do you do, you sock puppet, create harmony on this list?
> > >
> > >[Krimel]
> > >So I guess that's a "No," to the percocets?
> >
> >[Marsha]
> >I love you Krimel...
> >
> >[Krimel]
> >That's sweet but a more considered answer to your question might be:
> >
> >I vote then ignore them. But I raised three college graduates and I when
> >bounce my grandchildren on my knee, I hope their laughter says with them
>all
> >the days of their lives.
> >
> >In terms of purpose that's about all I can manage, that's all I need.
> >
> >Oh yeah, and I eat when I'm hungry and drink when I'm thirsty...
> >
>
>Marsha:
>And I've had it up to my eyeballs with being a 'serious' woman.  I
>wore worsted wool suits with little ties, and adopted the
>professional attitude of a Project Manager on a Corporate 500
>mission.  When my husband died, it didn't take long for me to see my
>professionalism as false poop.  Now I like laughing and being silly
>sometimes, communicating in lyrics and offering
>poetry.  Painting!  That is my life, with and without my
>grandchildren.  You don't need anyone to find things to laugh about
>if you take Socrates' "Know thyself" seriously.
>
>[Krimel]
>Not to be overly critical but I would suggest that if one examines one's
>life and only sees oneself. That is a life not worth living.
>

Krimel,

That is a very good point, but I see myself as a reflection of 
everyone else.  This self is nothing special, its basically like all 
selves, but useful to me for investigation.

I think maybe from your original remark (kittens?) you didn't like 
the post 'Inside Time' that I sent.  Maybe I should have added some 
context but I did think the photography stood on its own.  I have 
been investigating time having just read the book 'The Ending of 
Time'  which is a discussion between Krishnamurti and David Bohm on 
the relationship of thought and time.  Additionally, someone offlist 
was describing the movement of thought in meditation as a wave on the 
ocean, so I thought that the wave segment from 'Inside Time' 
demonstrated well the eddys and whirlpools within a wave.

Marsha



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The self is a thought-flow of ever-changing, interrelated and 
interconnected, inorganic, biological, social and intellectual, 
static patterns of value responding to Dynamic Quality.

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