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Here is my LIT thought, gentlemen ~~~~

In a mother’s womb were two babies. One asked the other:
“Do you believe in life after delivery?” The other replied, “Why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.”
“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”
The second said, “I don’t know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we can’t understand now.”
The first replied, “That is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is so short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”
The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we won’t need this physical cord anymore.”
The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover if there is life, then why has no one has ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”
“Well, I don’t know,” said the second, “but certainly we will meet Mother and she will take care of us.”
The first replied “Mother? You actually believe in Mother? That’s laughable. If Mother exists then where is She now?”
The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of Her. It is in Her that we live. Without Her this world would not and could not exist.”
Said the first: “Well I don’t see Her, so it is only logical that She doesn’t exist.”
To which the second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive Her presence, and you can hear Her loving voice, calling down from above.”
- Útmutató a Léleknek

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 11:22 am By: Gene Scarborough

"Sticks and stones can break our bones, but words can never hurt us"---good buddy Stan! One thing I always agree with you about~~~YOU ARE CONSISTENT, my brother!

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 8:08 am By: Gene Scarborough

There are 2 of us writers I could describe as "token Liberals." Otherwise, Stan, this e-magazine is so Conservative as to be like the latest and hardest concrete---laced with enough fiberglass to not crack and fall apart from the sun!!!

At the least, all the "surveys" lack a middle ground / all but 2 of the writers do the same as well. I am having some fun being an "alternative voice." I thank you for the inclusion. Perhaps that is why readership is growing---for the first time there is "difference of opinion. . ."

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 7:55 am By: Gene Scarborough

These last few rounds of comments are some of the best I have read thus far on Democracy vs. Republic. Rather than say, "Liberals more believe in indoctrination, which keeps the public more stupid. The more stupid people voting Democrat, the quicker we lost this Republic."

Why not simply say: There is a current debate over the real nature of the United States. Our choice is really~~~"are we 'bought by the rich'----or a 'golden dream' of "liberty and justice for ALL?"

Commented: Monday, May 4th, 2015 @ 7:31 am By: Gene Scarborough

This post was more about a functioning Republic, which most Americans are oblivious to. Really good politicians of weary of other politicians that are not intellectually acute, because eventually they may prove to be dishonest.

Sadly, these politicians often well represent those that elect them, which speaks constantly of the interminable need to educate, rather than indoctrinate, the public.

Liberals more believe in indoctrination, which keeps the public more stupid. The more stupid people voting Democrat, the quicker we lost this Republic. That is the way of it.

Commented: Sunday, May 3rd, 2015 @ 6:00 pm By: Stan Deatherage

When his lop-sided tax code is gone / corps and the rich actually start investing in America / when Regulation really returns to Wall Street and Banks --- I shall shut my mouf, bro!!!

Commented: Sunday, April 26th, 2015 @ 6:17 am By: Gene Scarborough

For some stupid reason you fail to see the continuity of government policy. The Chicago School of Finance came up with Trickle Down / the Senate bought it and Reagan signed it into law / the Tax code then reflected it / the Great Recession is the same proof of failure as was the Roaring 20's, Prohibition, no regulation of Wall Street of banks. 1% now owns 80% of all money in the USA = we have gone back to the Robber Barron Era that Teddy Roosevelt ended with Trust Busting.

If you are too naive to see how history repeats itself and America is based on average people having a chance~~~you belong back in the Old World as part of the royalty and laws to keep the rich getting even richer, Stan . . .

Commented: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 8:50 pm By: Gene Scarborough

I am most interested in your observations, Stan. Many of them I can uphold---especially the nature of a Republic vs. Democracy. Let me ask you a few questions:

(1) How can we know national candidates in a Madison Avenue world of advertising?
(2) Are you saying we did right by torturing POW's after 9/11?
(3) Why is it so important to divide rather than find a reasonable compromise?
(4) We are still in a recession brought on by a failed Trickle Down theory and tax code---how do we get out?
(5) You fail to mention my hero of NC politics, Sam Erwin and his sense of integrity over Watergate---any reason for this?
(6) NC is a big state with many outlooks contending for rule---should we simply legalize moonshine for which NC is famous and drink until we can be friends?
(7) NC made good progress from 1970-early 2000 ---WHAT HAPPENED????

Commented: Saturday, April 25th, 2015 @ 7:05 pm By: Gene Scarborough