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Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of the problem.  --Krishnamurti

Time

Recently I was discussing a philosophical (and quantum) idea with Emma.  If there are infinite universes and infinite time, anything not just could happen, but will happen.  In some universe, somewhere, a person who looks just like you is reading this post while riding a wallaby.

Mustard

A friend in high school told me of a time when his family was having a barbecue.  Apparently he was having problems with the mustard bottle.  Mustard just wouldn't come out, no matter how hard he shook or squeezed.  So he took off the lid, only to find a dead rat curled up inside. 

Steve Guttenburg

Does anyone ever wonder what happened to Steve Guttenberg's career?  He was huge in the '80's with such hits as "Three Men and a Baby" "Short Circuit", and "Mannequin".  Then he disappeared, largely.  We need more movies like "Mannequin" in our lives.

Overheard Conversation

Twenty-something woman to another twenty-something woman:  "Don't diss my boobs, bitch. I've got a smaller waist and smaller breasts."

It was truly unexpected--and I missed the reply.

Library People

There is a man writing easy-to-understand mathematics booklets who glares at me every time I pass him.

Cows

I heard a story from a college classmate that runs as follows:

My brother and a few friends were goofing off one summer day at the Yakima river, jumping off a bridge into the water.  Well, they were having a great time, that is, until my brother jumped off the bridge and landed on a dead, bloated cow that was floating down the river.  Unfortunately, that wasn't the worst part of it.  He got stuck knee deep in that cow.  He lay on his back in the water, his legs bent and cow-ey, flailing his arms in the air, until his friends were able to swim to him and pull him out.

Quote

No matter how often modern man thinks of God or goes to church, if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces.   --Erich Fromm