In The Moment

the okanagan is a vast cornucopia of vital pleasures, a heady mixture of semi-desert with lush lakes, orchards, ancient myths and villages, towns and cities...

one of those towns is Vernon.  t'were where my father is from.  his family's homestead is long gone, paved over by an industrial park...the willows that he and his family planted there by the creek's edge are still there

another place that hitches right up against Vernon is Coldstream.

fellow sentients,

let this thread be a place where people get to hawk, present examples of agape they see in their world

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i can't help it; Trudeau was my favourite PM -- elegance, wit, ego, able to take the piss like the best of them...

And now the bless'd canadian gov't has repealed a bit of one of his famous rulings

Section 13 and Section 54 of the Canadian Human Rights Act (link to full text) are being repealed.

So bless the canadian gov't and MP Brian Storseth

In 2oo8 Time magazine sat down with Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and asked him 10 questions.

One of them was "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the universe?"

This was his answer

Dear Cancer,

You are part of life's dance, an alchemical transformation of us into tumours.

Hello genties & ladlemen, fellow hallucinations, fictional creations, and dyverse beings of this meetingplacesacredspace called WC.

In this thread I'd like to have a discussion on the concept of the Self, just what does one mean by it?  Consider this an examination of the concept in more-or-less real time.

To start off, say you are asked to come to dinner.  Ok, what/who is it that comes to dinner?

Genties & ladlemen,

say right this very moment, everyone on Earth is in contact with everyone else's thoughts and feelings.

What do you think would be the short-term effects?  The long-term effects?

Feel free to yakk aboot it in your terms, be it history or politics or ecology or religion or experimental science or advertising or poetry or or or...:3