Dr Wingnut

Year: 2004

  • Possibilities

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    Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.Aristotle

  • Religion and Spirituality

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    I believe there is an important distinction to be made between religion and spirituality.  Religion I take to be concerned with belief in the claims to salvation of one faith tradition or another — an aspect of which is acceptance of some form of meta-physical or philosophical reality, including perhaps an idea of heaven or…

  • Letting go

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    Jill and I went across the street last night to drop off the folding stroller that had been left at our house for our neighbors across the street.  While we were talking to the neighbor lady, the little neighbor girl started playing with it, lost her balance and fell down on top of the stroller. …

  • Life force

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    Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.Henry David Thoreau

  • Best Smart-ass Answers of 2004

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    Smart-ass Answer #1: A flight attendant was stationed at the departure gate to check tickets.  As a man approached, she extended her hand for the ticket and he opened his trench coat and flashed her.  Without missing a beat,she said, “Sir, I need to see your ticket, not your stub.”Smart-ass Answer #2: A lady was…

  • Anger

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    Anger is usually the flipside of helplessness.Eliana GilSustained anger can erode our insides and keep us trapped in pain and frustration.  Anger that gets no relief, that cannot find a resolution, may be a signal that we are feeling powerless.  Rather than hounding the object of our anger, we may need to look at the…

  • ASCII Porn

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    I got the following ASCII Art in an email.  Nice tack, sending porn as ASCII so the porn filter at MessageLabs didn’t see it.