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Talk 2 the animals. Interesting language words. No matter which one you use, English Tagalog, Japanese or American- seems that words just dont cut it when we try to communicate. To portray our sense of humour, we tell jokes that other people may not get, or find funny. For intelligence we quote the poets and learned men of ages to show we can read, or be taught like a parrot. Only time can really show us, one to the other...  Time is un-forgiving, it remembers everything. So this is why I say it's nice to be important, but important to be nice. A favorite of a tv person here in Oz, and one I always liked m'self. So why do we need so many words, in so many different languages anyway, as if we weren't hard enough to understand? Maybe the day will come when we live as one people, with one purpose, and achieve our potential on Earth- but it does seem a long way away. We lock our doors and hide behind walls, keeping each other further at bay- while social network sites are a booming business funny old world, ain't it? I think my old dad would find it very amusing that the simple values of friendship and good manners that he instilled in me as a - are now so rare, they can be marketed as a commodity. If we all walked outside today and said hello to a total stranger, and there are plenty of them around so dont worry you'll find one, you have changed two people's day. By one simple act of friendship, you have opened a door. But more importantly, see how that one act, saying hello, can improve life for two people? Simple really when ya do the math, we only have to do this for a couple of months, and we change the world!! Into a place where if ya dont know some-one, you say hello, and get to know them. Much better than the society we have now where we just kill the stranger, and his whole fuckn family incase of revenge. I was asked the other day how that word got past the mind-police and I must admit that since we are all grown ups, I didnt think they were needed. We often pepper profound thoughts with liberal doses of profanity here in oz, i think its the beer. Nah, it's 8.30am. Bit early for me. So it just must be force of habit I'm sorry frozenflower. But, ur a big grl and all growed up- I'm sure you have heard these words in conversation before, even if it wasn't polite conversation! When I was at uni i once offered the thereom in sociology that we should just give e'one a gun and be done with it. I postulated that in the last 300 yrs we have reduced the availability of weapons, except in times of war(but that's for another day) and bred a rude, violent and I felt slow witted and reacting society. I on the other hand felt my solution would within another 300 yrs, breed a society of polite, quick witted people, with lightning fast reflexes! I used this one to argue that no-one really took Darwin seriously. Cos if ya believe the mad pommy bastard, ya wouldn't let stupid, violent people breed. By natural selection, do we eventually become the worst of our species- rather than the best?? Sleep tight out there, one and all  IZDONT PANIC.E 4]  |
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