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I feel I need to qualify something. I did not mean to imply that there is something wrong with gathering under the cloak of religion. Religion preserves the teachings. Religion gathers those of like mind to celebrate what we have be given from above. But social gatherings cannot replace the...

It may be your player. A DVD player won't get you blueray. If you have a Blue ray player and still have trouble check out the software. Look George I just stumble though this stuff at best I can, so await the knowledgeable and while you wait screw up as much stuff as you can trying to...

So like,... who is!!?? As Obama is fond of saying... "Don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good." The perfect is but a dream, an illusive construct whose only real purpose is to to cast shade on the possible. The possible is the true child of reality. It grows out of what is and...

"If we forgive our fathers what is left?" If we let go of our grudges, let go our incomplete understanding which we have leaned upon since our childhoods, if we free our parents of our anger and let them be more than the mistakes they made with us Will we not be better prepared to withstand...

Things change...

I found this on the movie (Smoke Signals) Thomas and his Aunt who is raising him are seers, healers and great lovers of humanity. Thomas can tell a story!

Your parents... This is from a most remarkable, totally mesmerizing film written directed and performed by people of the first nation. After all we did to them they are still reaching out trying to help us become human beings., They still send us "Smoke Signals" This is a revelation, an...

Folly is the vanity of men. vanity is the folly of women. (See how I did that! LOL)

What would an honest man seek in life if not another honest man? But how better to meet and know an honest man than by first becoming one?

Perhaps this is why they are among us. to make light of our own difficulties. But no man can say. The who or why of it. But this life offers us endless opportunities to show kindness, to express gratitude.

No doubt a bad one. But consider. Dickens was first published in newspapers as a serial. Dickens was the first writer whose writings ever changed anything. London went from total indifference to the plight of children who were small so could be forced down a three or four story smoke stacks to...

Never ask me to explain the vanity of women or the folly of men! LOL

To be fair it may have been humility that kept him from searching for ANOTHER honest man.":O}

Life is upon the lathe of God. Who he carves in to what form is entirely in the masters hand. I watched my older sister undergo every struggle you can imagine trying to keep her Cystic Fibrosis riddled son in life.He was never supposed to make it out of the hospital, but 37 surgeries and nine...

Dickens had a monstrous childhood. Even in his later years he could not bring himself to speak of it. Many of our greatest artists are or were very troubled people. It seems to go with the territory. Dickens treatment of his wife was unusually cruel and completely unnecessary.He came to feel...

In my writings I always feel I am taking more than I give. I'm pretty sure that few if any benefit as much as I do from them. But your appreciation is always welcome. Thanks George! ":O}

Thanks Gizmo once again you have increased knowledge and friendship with a single post!!

So what life lessons can we glean from from a Tech engineer amerced in algorithms and trying to filter the sewage? Lets begin with our presenter. An intelligent fellow who seems genuinely concerned for not just the future of social platforms but for our shared future and the way we are...

George posted: "I'd rather be bludgeoned by "Accept Christ as your savior or die and spend eternity in hell." What if all I have seen of "Christ" is cruelty? What if one never heard of Christ?" If you see Christ as cruelty you have not seen Christ, but Christians and bad ones, fakers at that...

I offer this tender consolation. They are not gone. For the most part these good people went on to reform into most often better groups with a greater knowledge of the music they wanted to create. But I have to admit a lot of these songs do seem to have reached a high place, not easy to surpass.