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I like to think that I’m a thinking outside the paradigm person, but I also think that the rolling stone gathers no moss. The rest of this post will be equally non-sensible.

Years ago, back when we were living on $3000 a year and loving it, I thought of myself as as pretty enlightened person. By enlightened, I’m thinking along the lines of having a sort of inner spiritual peace, despite the fact that I adhere myself to no particular spiritual dogma. I had had a turbulent teenageness followed by immediate father and husbandhood, and once I had all that straighted out, I felt that I knew the secrets of the universe. Maybe it comes with being 22, I don’t know, but I had it all in the palm of my hand.

Increasingly so, I don’t feel quite that way anymore. I don’t feel bad, or unhappy, but I’m less sure about a great deal of things. I never saw things in black and white, but it seems that now its pretty much all grey. Sure, I get worked up enough about things to write about here, but the same time, I also see the other side:

• City council is desperate to try to fill up this ORNL industrial park and try to reinvent Oak Ridge as a good place for techological businesses to work, thus keeping the .gov entities in town happy, and making jobs.
• They also really feel bad about little Jimmy not riding the bus next year, but had to make some tough decisions.
• The telcos are really feeling the pinch by bandwidth slurping entities, like companies streaming video and music, and voice over IP lines. They got into the internet to serve up web pages, but aren’t prepared for the onslaught of content thats going through, and as such, probably are justified in charging additional money (OK, I made that up, I really don’t see how this line of thinking is justfied)
• We can’t withdraw troops from Iraq on any kind of timetable, because this will create a warlord state. The Iraqi army is a jug of beer and a woman away from fighting for whoever will pay them, and leaving now will create a bigger problem than the Hussein thing ever was
• We had to invade Iraq to install… wait, never mind.
• The government has an obligation to perform surveillance on citizens if it means that terror attacks can be prevented, as evidenced by the arrests in Miami and Toronto.
• File-sharing is creating a criminal mentality among the young, enabling them to believe that it’s OK to take things for free, garnering a lack of respect for hard work and stuff.
• Electronic voting machines are every bit as safe and secure as traditional ballot methods, truth is you never know if your vote is counted, so what good is a paper trail?

Maybe I’m not that bad off after all. I had to really work to come up with some of those. At the same time, subscribing and adhering to a set of principals just because they’re your principals seems to be dumb.

Whatever. Feel free to comment if you bothered to read this.

I’ll end with this thought, which has been flitting around my head for a while:

Cain got the short end of the stick.
He can’t live in paradise because his stupid mom ate an apple.
Hes a farmer, offers up some goodies, Gods all like “no fool, I want the mutton”. Abel probably mouthed off and called him a hippy vegetarian, and Cain smacked him one. Next thing he knows, hes burying the guy. He’s feeling guilty as hell, but still doesn’t want to get in trouble with big G when he shows up looking for Abel, so he’s all like “Am I my brothers keeper?”, but God finds him and dishes out some crazy “live off the land” kind of wrath.

Would living off the land really be that bad?

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