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This is usually what I do when I Was that forty dollars worth watching three deck, and two weeks ago I listened to a pasty faced can't think of anything to write, just sort of a stream hours of pych experiment photos to test eye reaction twit lead a church group in a private home. Both of bullshit. It's not an effective writing style for times of schizophrenics who were white males of the were disturbing, and yet oddly I feel I had more of a essay tests, but hey, I'm not getting graded for this. age specified by the study protocol? Can truth be positive impact on the deck than in a church group. I missed yet another I-Con, so it goes. This measured with electrodes measuring the reactions to I'd love to give details, as freak shows are time I was a few hours away, and. This is about as pictures of pornography alternated randomly with amusing, but the small shred of decency (HA!). far as these articles can go before thought insertions those of bur victims, and non-event producing Anyway, about the title, I've decided to cast lots to start to interfere with alternative content that seems objects? see which religious institution I attend on Easter. foreign to me. What would Byron do? Or rather So you'll excuse me for not taking a fond Seems sort of fitting in a Roman soldier kind of way. what would Byron's Don Juan do? Just a little light view of "Shock and Awe"; yet having watched some I guess I should explain, since my mixed metaphors reading on the side. You know, to pass the time. of the coverage, all that's missing from it are the can get annoying. Putting life into a coherent message takes mangled bodies. Well at least on American public It's time the cows come home to roost. effort since, as a neuropsychological evaluation TV. But there is the appeal of the attractive talking That's a mixed metaphor; I guess casting lots to see reported, this writer "has an unconventional view of heads. The only differences this time around were whose portrayal of the remnants of Jesus' life life, which makes conflict with others somewhat that I wasn't wired with electrodes and that I didn't embodied in various church's celebration of his inevitable." To think, I paid someone to tell me I get a pittance for my time. death is flat out blasphemy. But it strikes me as odd don't play well with others. There's a line of thought that this war is jus- that these churches casting lots to see who is saved I hope "Funky Friday" starts soon; it's a tified in that we are our brother's keepers and that or not like Roman soldiers divvying up the death local radio show. What, just because most the Christian thing to do would be to ease the Iraqi's booty. Or are God and Satan casting soul lots? Oh, Americans sit glue in front of cable TV doesn't mean suffering. Should we sell advertising and use it as a well. I have to? Granted I watched the opening couple of form of entertainment? Well it's just the way it is, And yet as I sit in that room in a week, I will days of the war. Last time I checked the constitution and I've seen way too many ads in my life. know that none of these people who consider them- was during legal reasoning in the spring of '99 The bible has some stories, and four of selves righteous, would think me righteous. Bush which I failed, twice. So maybe I shouldn't make them are about this guy whom makes a pact with says he's righteous, Nuh said. any comments about the scope of Presidential man as to the benefits of peace, love, obedience to So if my lot has been cast, does what I authority? God, and suggested a way to live that would be, by believe matter? I'm going to die, hopefully as a not This blatant disregard for proper paragraph his own account, rewarded with persecution. Some to bitter old fart, my biggest concern is to get transitions is, and has always been at the heart of the hold that life is suffering, so should there be suffer- through this thing without making a state sponsored "not playing well with others" issues that I have. So ing for a reason, or for the pursuit of vanity. trip to a criminally insane state hospital unit. I've am I a proud American. Maybe I'm just not partici- So the question is: if life is suffering, and met the people, they seem nice, but "you never pating properly, so Yeah for us or those damn elec- faith rewarded with persecution, is I-Con divine ret- know, do you?" Just a flash back to the locked unit tions stealing Nazis in the White House! ribution, or a most unlikely tool for Satan? What's of a regular hospital, funny the places where you can Should I go metaphysical and point out the the difference? Remember - the Indians coming over make friends. karmic damage that bunker busters create? Nope the hill had no idea you were watching Television. "Whitey D. to you, damn it!" was one of too obvious - just let the thought inserts write this. Or in English - You will die! The wages of sin are the people that I rather enjoyed meeting during my Does I Con have long-term karmic effects? Only in death, but as the comedian said, "it's really just a forty day stay at the Cadillac of mental health resorts the opposite way of Byron. Dharma: think TV show; tired feeling after taxes." So what did you spend the in Albany. I'd like to tell you who Whitey was, but Karma: think ABC war coverage. day doing, and how did you feel while you did it? his secret identity in the Mossad prohibits that, but I Being slow relative to others, yet excelling So you're probably thinking, how can you wanted to baptize him in keeping with some reli- at taking tests, makes for an interesting experiential write stuff like this and listen to Zevon? I'm not; gious ideation that occurred to me in February of juxtaposition. Most people talk to me like I'm a com- rather I am listening to Springsteen. A comment or '96's stay at USB's doughnut track in the sky. plete moron; well mostly the morons do that, but two on music would be aDorooriate. Now the problem with Byron is still. Granted I failed much more than I've succeed- but what do I knoi the superficial mies- ed in school, life, love, or... well this was going it's a way to pass ise I'm too busy look- somewhere - damn thought insertions. spend all our time muendo. I've had Warren Zevon should help with that, noth- feet smelling the d >shared their cultural ing like Hindu Love Gods. Not that I've heard this Well, I'm e at Stony Brook. But CD before, but there's always a call for Lawyers, words short, but tl .f, well, it's like a pub- Guns, and Money. Just the line of bullshit that was way my life is goir ions clerk at promised; hey, we can't have false advertising now I can deal with it, wsday said to me can we? tried to submit tl er say never." This doesn't make linear sense, nor does have yet to master Is this really life. Even the Good Book lays that out. Should we art of attaching file o I am? A dangerous, all take a Biblical perspective on life? Well, anything e-mails. So now tely, unemployable, that's got that many parables can't be all bad. So past deadline - Icoholic, intelligent, shove me in the shallow water before I get to deep. arbitrary line w' tubborn, prudish, Art's name, anyone? 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