Not everyone on here is looking for a date. Some of us are just on here because we are lonely.

Lu ,

Is it sad? It is loyalty and grit.

But that is true, it is not free at all in the way that creative expression free of supression is. (Which I am not that good at.)

That should really the new frontier, if as a society we do not destroy ourselves first because of greed (including lust. I take sir as a compliment )

The benefits seen in the economy is proof that freedom is a good thing.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets/121615/top-10-africanamerican-owned-businesses.asp

I am thinking that magic is impossible by definition, but that assumes that you actually know for sure what is impossible.

I am thinking everyone should protect their hearing. I am going to refrain from making some depressing statements.

National wild and scenic Rivers inventory. I am driving to one right now.

Natural, beautiful, and awesome

You are not as ignored as you think you are.

There is positive karma, negative karma, and terrifying and confusing karma.

I believe in free will is an illusion, though a very good and useful one. Consider a deterministic world where if everything were known, the rest of history could be predicted exactly as it would happen. That means sin is also an illusion And can better be defined as evil that one identifies as responsible for. So why does God allow evil to exist? Why does he not just kill the devil? The answer is that if he did, there would be no life. Everything would be as it should be, and there would be no meaning. Consciousness may still exist, but there would be no consciousness of good and evil.

Switch back to the free will viewpoint: Karma is the real truth about the way things should be.

The world is sad enough as it is without the lunacy of killing each other over it.

No, I don’t take pleasure when people who are problematic to me suffer. It makes me want to throw up.

lu_rosemarie:
her perspective

Two:
The self-made looking wood joist in the background.

To each:
The bold energy

because.

Thinking I feel anchored to the sky, which to me is a good thing.

Thinking about what a lonely whale would sound like.

Power is inspiring.

Warm-hearted

So uplifting and peaceful.

I was not with my Grandad in his final moments. I sat by him for three days. I left. I don’t know why I felt like leaving, but evidently that was when he died, and the sun was setting outside the window. I was sad I was not there, but he had others around him.

I know that is slightly off topic; there was no euthanasia or pets.

Back in 1949, George Orwell speculated about what the time now may be like with increased government and communication networks.

If people live longer, one death would be rather major. Maybe sex would be be like the magic potion in the future