So, I ordered myself a new lens and some filters (ah.. I’m a sucker for a good sale. I am going to save our economy all by my damn self, just dangle a sale in front of me) last week, and a windstorm of mess happened. A) Ritz didn’t offer me a size option on …
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There are hidden contradictions within the minds of people who “love nature” while deploring the “artificialities” with which “Man has spoiled ‘Nature.” The obvious contradiction lies in their choice of words, which imply that Man and his artifacts are not part of “Nature”–but beavers and their damns are. But the contradictions go deeper than this prima-facie absurdity. In declaring his love for a beaver damn (erected by beavers for beaver’s purposes) and his hatred for dams erected by men (for the purpose of men) the “Naturist” reveals his hatred for his own race–i.e., his own self-hatred. In the case of “Naturists” such self—hatred is understandable; they are such a sorry lot. But hatred is too strong an emotion to feel toward them; pity and contempt are the most they rate. As for me, willy-nilly I am a man, not a beaver, and H. Sapiens is the only race I have or can have. Fortunately for me, I like being part of a race made up of men and women– it strikes me as a fine arrangement and perfectly “natural.” Believe it or not, there were “Naturists” who opposed the first flight to old Earth’s Moon as being “unnatural” and a “despoiling of nature.”
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Time Machine
- 2003: Need a new folder?
- 2003: YAY!!!!!! inky goodness!
- 2003: 09 September 2003
- 2003: 09 September 2003
- 2004: Packing Packing Packing
- 2004: mail
- 2006: Any day but Thursday
- 2008: The Holiday Ad Book is Coming!
- 2008: The Alt Bazaar
- 2009: Dor's Ortho
