“We not only value the wilderness because of its own superlative values but because our experience in the wilderness meets fundamental human needs. These needs are not only recreational and spiritual, but also educational and scientific, not only personal but cultural. They are profound. For the wilderness is essential to us, as human beings, for a ( Read more... )

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MAN.
I just can't stay in the habit anymore.

It could be because I had a birthday and my parents came to visit - that accounts for a couple'a days.
Tomorrow  's my first day of work.

mmmm. I need to fake falling asleep so I can get up early. Better post soon.

I made a comment when the supreme court ruled on the south american tea last year that this opened the door for pot use too, and, apparently I'm not the only person to think of this.

http://www.cafepress.com/relcannabis

I'm really happy to see that someone is taking on this cause cause I've honestly considered the legality of it all, myself.  I ( Read more... )

Silenced by close minded fools ...
(copy and paste this, I can't figure out how to put a video / video link in here )

http://www.cnn.com/video/partners/clickability/index.html?url=/video/us/2007/02/07/johnson.hooha.monologues.wjxt

or by an all- powerful oppressive communist regime ...
http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/01/24/china.internet.hu.reut/ ( Read more... )

So I went to my local indie record shop yesterday to buy myself one of those new fan-dangeled compact discs.

http://www.429records.com/endlesshighway/

I'm not sure when the last time I bought myself a CD was . . I'm thinking summer after sophomore year, so 3 years ago ?
Frankly, I'm nervous about spending money on CD's cause it could become a bad ( Read more... )

I checked out more pages to read today than, perhaps, I read in all of last year.
More detail and pictures of Seattle's sweet library later.

I read the "introduction" to Nature , the first book in The American Library's Ralph Waldo Emerson reader and, sentence by sentence, I was blown away. A few paragraphs in I literaly caught myself with my right ( Read more... )

So I was reading a few music sites tonight and I started downloading some songs ... and some more songs ... and some more songs ( Read more... )

So, I've been here almost a month. I don't really have anything to show for it. I've hit the point of boredom - I've passed the point of boredom. I'm trying now to get comfortable with being here even though we know no one else, we spend most every moment of every day with each other, and I still don't have a job. It's been a grimacing experience, ( Read more... )

    Taken from : http://www.ethicalculture.org/uer/arewe.html

This does not mean that an ethical faith has no framework or viewpoint beyond man. Felix Adler in his earliest addresses, took the view "Deed Not Creed." But later he realized more and more that "Deed" implies an outlook on life--that "Deed" is part of a larger faith, whether we put ( Read more... )