On Apr 18, 1:36 pm, Immortalist
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>>> On Apr 17, 6:22 pm, Ash
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>>> On Apr 17, 6:50 pm, Holly
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>>>> On Apr 17, 5:24 pm, Ash
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>>>>> On Apr 17, 6:04 pm, Holly
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>>>>>> The recent events at Virginia Tech brought this song to mind. Re-
>>>>>> evaluating ... a continual process of shifting and placing oneself in
>>>>>> a variety of positions ... and re-evaluating ... The trick is to be
>>>>>> somewhat comfortable with continual change and to accept that one can
>>>>>> never kick back for too long. It all comes down to re-evaluating ...
>>>>>> with a keen mind linked intimately with a warm heart.
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>>>>>> You may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
>>>>>> You may find yourself in another part of the world
>>>>>> You may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
>>>>>> You may find yourself in a beautiful house, with a beautiful wife
>>>>>> You may ask yourself; Well...How did I get here?
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>>>>>> Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
>>>>>> Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
>>>>>> Into the blue again/after the money's gone
>>>>>> Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground
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>>>>>> You may ask yourself
>>>>>> How do I work this?
>>>>>> You may ask yourself
>>>>>> Where is that large automobile?
>>>>>> You may tell yourself
>>>>>> This is not my beautiful house!
>>>>>> You may tell yourself
>>>>>> This is not my beautiful wife!
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>>>>>> Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
>>>>>> Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
>>>>>> Into the blue again/after the money's gone
>>>>>> Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground
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>>>>>> Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
>>>>>> Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
>>>>>> Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
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>>>>>> Water dissolving...and water removing
>>>>>> There is water at the bottom of the ocean
>>>>>> UNDER the water
>>>>>> Carry the water
>>>>>> Remove the water from the bottom of the ocean
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>>>>>> Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
>>>>>> Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
>>>>>> Into the blue again/INTO THE SILENT WATER
>>>>>> UNDER THE ROCKS AND STONES/THERE IS WATER UNDERGROUND
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>>>>>> LETTING THE DAYS GO BY/LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN
>>>>>> LETTING THE DAYS GO BY/WATER FLOWING UNDERGROUND
>>>>>> INTO THE BLUE AGAIN/AFTER THE MONEY'S GONE
>>>>>> Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground
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>>>>>> You may ask yourself
>>>>>> What is that beautiful house?
>>>>>> You may ask yourself
>>>>>> Where does that highway GO to?
>>>>>> You may ask yourself
>>>>>> Am I right?...Am I wrong?
>>>>>> You may say to yourself
>>>>>> MY GOD!...WHAT HAVE I DONE?
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>>>>>> Letting the days go by/let the water hold me down
>>>>>> Letting the days go by/water flowing underground
>>>>>> Into the blue again/INTO THE SILENT WATER
>>>>>> UNDER THE ROCKS AND STONES/THERE IS WATER underground
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>>>>>> LETTING THE DAYS GO BY/LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN
>>>>>> LETTING THE DAYS GO BY/WATER FLOWING UNDER GROUND
>>>>>> INTO THE BLUE AGAIN/AFTER THE MONEY'S GONE
>>>>>> Once in a lifetime/water flowing underground
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>>>>>> Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...
>>>>>> LOOK WHERE MY HAND WAS
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>>>>>> Time isn't holding us
>>>>>> Time isn't after us
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> ??
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
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>>>>>> ??
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> HEY LETS ALL TWIST OUR THUMBS
>>>>>> HERE COMES THE TWISTER
>>>>>> Letting the days go by
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> Letting the days go by
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> Letting the days go by
>>>>>> SAME AS IT EVER WAS
>>>>>> ONCE IN A LIFE TIME
>>>>>> LET THE WATER HOLD ME DOWN
>>>>>> LETTING THE DAYS GO BY
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>>>>>> I love his body language!
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>>>>> Good song. And isn't terrible about all those deaths that happened
>>>>> yesterday, and the really sad part is that not only do we have to
>>>>> worry about terrorist but our own country men and women. It reminds me
>>>>> of something out of the Dhammapada
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>>>>> "There is no fire like greed,
>>>>> No crime like hatred,
>>>>> No sorrow like separation,
>>>>> No sickness like hunger of heart,
>>>>> And no joy like the joy of freedom.
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>>>>> Health, contentment, and trust
>>>>> Are your greatest possessions,
>>>>> And freedom your greatest joy.
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>>>>> Look within.
>>>>> Be still.
>>>>> Free from fear and attachment,
>>>>> Know the sweet joy of living in the way."
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>>>>> The truly sad part is that someone who had walked off the path and
>>>>> took hatred and vengance into his heart and decided not only to take
>>>>> it out on the person it was meant for but 32 more innocent stander-
>>>>> bys. And that is the world we live in today, and it makes me sick, and
>>>>> sad.-
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>>>> It's numbing. I think of the parents. What ugliness they will
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>>> Not only that, but the futures they could have and the really sad part
>>> as well is that there have been at least 7 or more school shootings in
>>> the last ohhh I'd say 3-5 years.
>>> They were saying that yesterdays events were almost year to date since
>>> Columbian(sorry for the missed spelled word) That April 20th was when
>>> that happened. So thats pretty scary. I just don't know whats going on
>>> with this world that were living in.-
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>> Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe these sorts of violent crimes
>> have happened only in the USA and Australia.
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> Globalization has caught the Arab world at a bad demographic moment.
> Its societies are going through a massive youth bulge; more than half
> of the Arab world is under the age of twenty-five. Fully 75 percent of
> Saudi Arabia is under the age of thirty. A bulge of restless young men
> in any country is bad news.
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> Almost all crime in every society is committed by men between the ages
> of fifteen and twenty-five.
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> Lock all young men up, one social scientist pointed out, and violent
> crime will drop by more than 95 percent.
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> (That is why the socialization of
> young men-in schools, colleges,
> and camps-has been one of the
> chief challenges for civilized
> societies.)
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> When accompanied by even small economic and social change, a youth
> bulge produces a new politics of protest. In the past, societies in
> these circumstances have fallen prey to a search for revolutionary
> solutions. France went through a youth bulge just before the French
> Revolution in 1789, as did Iran before its revolution in 1979. Even
> the United States had a youth bulge that peaked in 1968, the year of
> the country's strongest social protests since the Great Depression. In
> the case of the Arab world, this upheaval has taken the form of a
> religious resurgence.
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> The Future of Freedom - Illiberal Democracy at Home &
Abroadhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0393047644/
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>> I take it very personally, since I am an American, that
>> ...we are doing something, out of ignorance
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> I am not sure yet but this subject below may be an influence, I am
> considering it after hearing some of his positions on economic
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stratification.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_stratification
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> ...the psychiatrist Jerome Frank has pointed out that, in the 1960s,
> two of the most serious riots by U.S. blacks in history did not take
> place in the geographical areas of greatest poverty; rather, they took
> place in Watts and Detroit, where things were not nearly so bad for
> blacks as they were in some other sections of the country.
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> The point is,
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> things were bad
> relative to what
> "Whitey" had.
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> Revolutions usually are not started by people whose faces are in the
> mud. They are most frequently started by people who have recently
> lifted their faces out of the mud, looked around, and noticed that
> other people are doing better than they are and that the system is
> treating them unfairly.
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> Thus, frustration is not the result of simple deprivation; it is the
> result of relative deprivation.
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> Suppose, after graduating from high school, I choose not to pursue a
> higher education and you choose to be educated; 10 years later, if you
> have a better job than I do, I may be unhappy with my job but I will
> not experience frustration; I made a free choice, and this is the
> reasonable consequences of my choice. But if we've both been educated,
> and you have a white-collar job and I (because I'm black, or a
> Chicano, or a woman) am handed a broom, I will feel frustrated; or, if
> you find it easy to get an education, but because I grew up in an
> impoverished ghetto an education is denied me, I will also feel
> frustrated. This frustration will be exacerbated every time I turn on
> the television and see all those beautiful houses white people live
> in, and all those lovely appliances for sale to other people, and all
> that gracious living and leisure I cannot share. When you consider all
> the economic and social frustrations faced by members of
> underpriviledged minority groups in this affluent society, it is
> surprising that there are so few riots. As Alexis de Tocqueville wrote
> more than 150 years ago, "Evils which are patiently endured when they
> seem inevitable, become intolerable once the idea of escape from them
> is suggested."
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> As long as there is hope that is unsatisfied, there will be
> frustrations that can result in aggression. Aggression can be reduced
> by satisfying that hope, or it can be minimized by eliminating it.
> Hopeless people are apathetic ...
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Hi Immortalist. I see you still write a lot.
