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Scott posted Slouching towards Bethlehem | 3 days ago

Lately the following words keep coming to mind: Although pain and suffering are experienced by all human beings, I have often felt that those brought up in some Eastern cultures appear to have a greater acceptance and tolerance for suffering. Part of this may be due to their beliefs, but perhaps it...

Renee/ The PR

Renee/ The PR posted W.B. Yeats | 4 days ago

Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhereThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;The best lack all conviction, while the worstAre full of...

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Scott posted About a house of cards | Sep 28, 2008

After receiving an email from a friend today, I feel I need to expand on that post I made, namely the one with the included Yeats poem (see "A House of Cards"). There's a woman who posts in a group I'm a member of here, with a blog I sometimes end up visiting as a consequence of reading her posts....

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Scott posted A house of cards | Sep 26, 2008

I've had much I've wanted to write of lately, but am finding it difficult, not because the words won't come or thoughts won't jell into something concrete. The sense of mounting seriousness here in the US, that I wrote some of many days ago now, along with the reported death of a classmate during...