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Cool. Do you have any interests with regard to the land? Wait.. damnit, if you're going to laydown 30,000 posts in the next couple years we ought to get to know you, no?

Tell us about yourself.

And I'm what you call "land poor", meaning if rocks were Washingtons, I'd be rich.
 
here it is, , , ,, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjcRpZdFWIE

wow. . . . .. that's the whole movie!!!!!!!!

nothin' to see here, folks. . . . move along. . . . back to moving this train to glory. . . ..
 
#29

I love old tractors. My farm is getting to be a museum. . . . .

Talkin' about old rust deposits in the desert sands. . . . . LogGrad, our former rep leader as recently as June 2011, is now at #30 on the rep page.

Sittin' here on the freeway offramp with my little cardboard sign beggin' for rep. . . . . hasn't been a bad day at all.
 
I guess it's time to move from Ambrose Bierce to Fyodor Dostoyevski for inspirational thoughts. . . .
 
Nonsense Exemplified

This has some sense in it. . . .though. . . .

Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground
 
Here's what every teen needs to tell his/her parents. . . ..


“To go wrong in one's own way is better then to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
 
The Progressive Paradox

This could be the mantra of all government overseers of the masses in their unappreciated labors for the welfare of mankind:

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
 
When I started reading Dostoyevski, it was the most tedious and disinteresting thing I had ever encountered in life. But I had a class to get an A in, so I had to do it. I have to admit, it felt filthy. . . . all these people with bizarre psychological issues. . .. and thoughts. . . . .

It was my first dawning understanding of humanity, as we are rather than as we are supposed to be. .. . . .
 
Christianity Preached From Novels to Socialists

A lot of scholars have written dissertations trying to explain Dostoyevski. They fail miserably, universally. . . .. because they try to make an intellectual out of him. They try to make him one of them.

I had read the Bible already, maybe nearly as much as he had. . . . .which is to say my bible was marked up almost as much as his was.

His work is essentially a re-statement of Christianity, particularly the Christianity of Paul, for the people of his day, which is to say, essentially, us. . . .. because the Russia he knew is so much like the America we are.

In the hands of "progressives".

The "Possessed".
 
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