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Like any other human being, I, too, can exhaust hours of my life with personal complaints. Life doesn’t go my way ALL the time yet, I also know that the more I complain, the worse things become. Overall, the negative energy accrued from complaining ends up effecting my life in many aspects. I choose to not become the problem. Instead, I become a part of the solution to the problem instead of feeding the problem by adding to it.

What I have learned in my experience is that a problem is only a problem and that all problems have solutions. That is, if one is looking for a solution. Moreover, as an intelligent being, it is my job to work out the solution. I can do that. I have years of experience. The hardest part of any problem is realizing that there is a problem. Additionally, the solution is generally an easy task. On the other hand, there are those who seem to find comforting solace living in their problem(s). They don’t need to, but that’s their lesson. I’ve paid my dues as a complaining member and then some. Gratefully enough, I’ve learned to “just do it” then get over it. Patience and perseverance are keys used when working out solutions. Afterall, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.”

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“For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
Carl Sagan

“Creationists make it sound as though a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”
Isaac Asimov

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Tonight is the celebration of liberation. If you should find yourself not in a celebrative type of mood for whatever reason, be sure to watch BBC’s slide show. It will act as a helpful reminder of the strength in human instinct. The tape was discovered in the Smithsonian Museum a handful of years ago. It is a BBC recording that was heard on April 20, 1945, about 5 days after the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by the British Army.

The audio I posted initially stopped working for some reason or another. Sometimes that happens.

Related:
Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust Documentary
International Tracing Service Audience

Whenever we stop to consider where we are on life’s path, we might wonder why we are in that particular place. Whether that place is one of success, failure, or simply wavering in the middle of the road somewhere, we are there and it isn’t by mistake. We are there due to having been influenced by something or someone.

Nearly every person can pinpoint at least one time in his life when there was a turning point, a change for the worse or for the better. Moreover, there is someone to whom he will give credit for the influential change.

Throughout our lives we are in contact with many people and each one will leave a mark either in our hearts or upon our inner beings. And as life continues, the combination of all the thoughts, feelings and actions encapsulated in them form our opinions, our likes and dislikes, our fears and how we love. Yet, there is one basic factor in all of this that turns us either one way or the other – it is the self’s unconscious mechanisms churning. How we accept life, how we expect from it, how and when we do our daily tasks, and where we place our values that make the overall difference.

Lastly, we are each born with the right to choose and whatever we decide to choose, there will always be someone there to help us to do the right thing or to do the wrong thing but not without first giving credit where credit is due.

Washington, DC: Representative Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced H.R. 5842, the “Medical Marijuana Patient Protection Act,” earlier today. This bill would make federal authorities respect states’ current laws on medicinal cannabis and end DEA raids on facilities distributing medical marijuana legally under state law.

Representative Paul, whose presidential campaign prominently featured the ending of the drug war as a platform plank, was joined by Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) in sponsoring this bill. “I think marijuana is a helpful medical treatment for the people who have intractable nausea,” Paul said in a 2004 House debate regarding a similar measure. “I would like to point out this is not something strange that we are suggesting here. For the first 163 years of our history in this country, the federal government had total hands off, they never interfered with what the states were doing.” Twelve states have approved the use of medical marijuana, beginning with California in 1996 with the passage of Proposition 215. The DEA continues to raid and harass medicinal cannabis dispensaries operating within these states’ laws. Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have both indicated they would end such raids should they be elected. Michigan will vote on an initiative to adopt medical cannabis legislation this November. Minnesota and Rhode Island’s respective legislatures are also considering pro-reform legislation this year.

For more information, contact NORML Legal Director Keith Stroup at (202) 483-5500. Supporters can write their Representatives in favor of this bill here

Gratefully, I don’t have a need for medical marijuana. I contacted my Rep. for those who have a need for it anyway. Will you be joining me?

In Dr. Liane Leedom’s essay, it explains that, humans are social animals and that they also want affiliation with each other. And, on a more specific note, scientists have learned recently that it has has two levels. One of them is disordered in sociopaths which helps explain what happens. Afterwards, when a significant other tries to leave his or her sociopath, the sociopath will stalk the significant other.
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“What we learn about love from sociopaths can also cause us to be better people. If we understand that love is about empathy and caring then we can practice these in our lives.”

“Any man may make a mistake; none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says.”
[Lat., Cujusvis hominis est errare; nullius, nisi insipientis, in errore perseverae. Posteriores enim cogitationes (ut aiunt) sapientiores solent esse.]
*Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Philippics (XII, 2)

Now I know why so many have been surfing in looking for information regarding the Megan Meier suicide case. I don’t watch TV to keep up with this sort of stuff. Apparently, a California grand jury has heard testimony given by”Ashley Grills, 19. She admitted that she was part of a scheme to create a fake persona on MySpace and start an online romance with her 13-year-old neighbor, Megan Meier”according to an exclusive ABC News report.

“Grills has testified to a grand jury that Lori Drew, the 47-year-old mother of one of Meier’s friends, was actively involved in creating the account and wrote some of the messages to Meier — a charge that Drew and her attorney deny.”

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I have absolutely no doubt that there will be plenty of trolls hanging around for the entertainment value. Come one, come all.

You’ll definitely want to read a more in depth as well as updated information on this subject at this link posted below.
My Space Suicide – Investigation Gets Some Truth At Last