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Some members of my online-community look for me on http://multiply.com/ and nowhere else, then ask where in the world I have disappeared to

Some members of my online-community look for me on http://orkut.com/ and nowhere else, then ask where in the world I have disappeared to

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No. Animals have a sense of how2eat, how2flee from a predator, how2fight back, how2have sex, and how 2care4 offspring. Anything more sophisticated than that requires consciousness. Period.

Yeah, it’s raining today, but y’know, sometimes it does have to rain

Lawns and gardens are thirsty again; so are the crops, corn and grain

Yeah, we need our umbrellas and boots, under a sky gray with clouds

Yeah, it’s chilly and windy, but don’t worry ‘cause this too shall pass

We’ll be wiping sweat off our brows in the sun’s intense heat before you know it

We shall tan again, have our picnics, and ride our bikes, once the rain has ended

May through August are sunny and hot months we enjoy while we can

Yeah, it’s raining today, but y’know, sometimes it does have to rain

Aries (March 21 - April 19)

You will be abducted by aliens. But hey, at least they’ll let you use their phone so you can notify your friends and loved ones on Earth, and they’ll even let you order a pizza. How sweet is that?

Taurus (April 20 - May 20)

You will have an out-of-body experience. You might wanna stay home today, because it is kinda sorta embarrassing to suddenly drop dead in public.

Gemini (May 21 - June 20)

The spirits of your deceased ancestors will be in touch with you. They demand to know why you never visit their graves anymore. Yeah they ARE kinda sorta pissed off, just so you know.

Cancer (June 21 - July 22)

The limited warrantee on your voodoo doll has probably expired. Now would be a good time to get a new voodoo doll from your local witch-doctor.

Leo (July 23 - August 22)

There will be a significant change in your psychic aura. PAV-NOS (Psychic Aura Variance – Not Otherwise Specified). Viagra can sometimes help to correct this condition (or at least it’s been clinically proven to have the desired effect on laboratory rats), but you might wanna consult a legitimately qualified physician first, before you go and try anything reckless.

Virgo (August 23 - September 22)

Pay especially close attention to your bowls of alphabet soup during this particular lunar cycle, because they really are trying to tell you something.

Libra (September 23 - October 22)

Your guardian angel is gonna call in sick today. Truth is, he just wants the day off so he can chug a few beers with the guys and hang out or whatever. Want me to go kick his ass for ya?

Scorpio (October 23 - November 21)

Feed your pet unicorn more pixie dust. That stuff is loaded with energy, very affordable, and it’s not as if it’s fattening, y’know.

Sagittarius (November 22 - December 21)

Start practicing those shape-shifting abilities again, because they may come in handy during this particular lunar cycle.

Capricorn (December 22 - January 19)

Load up on crosses, garlic, and silver bullets. Be on the lookout for vampires.

Aquarius (January 20 - February 18)

Do some rain dances during this particular lunar cycle. Your garden will thank you.

Pisces (February 19 - March 20)

Y’know, it really couldn’t hurt to try putting some more eye-of-newt and tongue-of-dog in that cauldron of firey demons you’ve got brewing in your basement. Just a thought.

Read the world

Write your life

Be a child

Guard your turf

Be an embodiment of hope

Radiant beacon in the dark

Dreams are the lessons in your sleep

Leaving you inwardly awake

Decades end

Life is brief

Read the world

Write your life

Our apartment is now thoroughly infested with emoticons. Hundreds of emoticons are zooming across our floors, bouncing off the walls, tying shoelaces and USB-cables together in sailor`s knots, playfully tunneling around in the flour and sugar, bungee-jumping off the ceiling-fan with elastic-bands, and generally wreaking havoc, spreading gross germs and bad memes everywhere. An exterminator is on his way here as I type this text.

These emoticons are such devilish little monsters, they`ve even discovered that it`s fun to use our DVDs as their own personal giant Frisbees. Some of the emoticons are even entertaining the others by skillfully juggling our vitamin-supplements.

But that`s not even the worst of it: Emoticons are so resilient that vacuuming them with a vacuum-cleaner has no effect other than giving them an exciting thrill, not unlike an amusement-park ride, and then they all jump out again, scattering dust far and wide.

We did kinda sorta bring this upon ourselves, actually. Not many people know this, but emoticons generally survive by eating the undeleted e-mails that accumulate (if unchecked) in the Spam folders of e-mail accounts. Also, the undeleted applets and javascript-cookies that can accumulate (if unchecked) in the cache of any given web-browser application are very nourishing and revitalizing food for emoticons, really helping them thrive, grow, and breed vast multitudes of offspring. This is why it`s a good idea to periodically clean out all the folders in one`s e-mail account, and frequently cleanse the cache of one`s web-browser.

So a word to the wise: SAVE YOURSELVES ! ! ! DO NOT LET THIS HAPPEN TO YOU, because you SO do NOT want a home full of emoticons, trust me.

Some of us experience Feeling X, even if you yourselves do not

Some of us experience Feeling X, even if you cannot relate

Someone paid attention, but no one shared the pain inside

World of dudes and honeys, you make the spirit’s journey hard

Please feel free to stare; it’s only natural to stare

Please don’t panic; I am not an entity to fear

Let me fail to answer your stupid questions in peace

I am not your servant, and you were never my boss

Draw your own conclusions, make your decisions, and keep your distance

No one’s gonna stop you; no one approves or condemns your choices

Certainly not the bites of food I chew and swallow, or the breaths of air I take

Whether or not I co-exist is immaterial, or so I’d like to think

Whether you’re having a good or bad day, I hardly give a shxt

Some of us experience Feeling X, even if you yourselves do not

I am the fingers that love your muscles

I am the palms that adore your skin

I am the hands that bestow caresses

I am your arms when your strength is gone

You are my comfort and joy in struggle

Healing and warmth when the world is cruel

We are renewed when we hug and snuggle

We are the halves of a perfect whole

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

After years of blame and pressure

After years of self-denial

Anger cracks my tooth-enamel

Call this posted text “depressing”

Why the fxxk are YOU complaining?

Every day, the world is colder

Every person’s just a soldier

Now, I fear I can’t recover

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

My sister lizamanynames offers up a prayer to The Grand Moff

Suddenly, I felt this strong craving for fruit

Suddenly, I felt this dry ache in my throat

Suddenly, I felt that Kraft Dinner is gross

Suddenly, I needed sweet, natural juice

Suddenly, I needed and grabbed that can of pineapple-slices

Suddenly, I felt the relief of making sensible choices

Suddenly, I knew my whole diet is shxt

Suddenly, I felt this strong craving for fruit

Walking from Marion Street to the Millennium Library and back

Daily routine of returning to the shelves and discovering a book

Living without the experiences others can recognize and share

Learning that nobody reads about the cares and concerns of the bizarre

Yeah, I’m still okay, for those of you who wonder how I am

Hard to entertain a readership addicted to the norm

Each day is a search for ways to entertain the easily-bored

Warm fuzzies are all that people want; whatever else is ignored

Leave me to live at a distance as remote and convenient as you like

Walking from Marion Street to the Millennium Library and back

fists

packed hands

tightly clenched

ready to fight

knuckles bent in rage

dare to attack

win and lose

left right

punch

Dangerously slippery ice on Winnipeg sidewalks

Moment when it rained and it froze, a treacherous nuisance

Ambulances rush to the scenes where bones have been broken

Winnipeggers awkwardly walk in terror, with caution

Each foot shall slide in due time

Safe just to stay inside home

Frictionless terrain is a bane that drives us to madness

Dangerously slippery ice on Winnipeg sidewalks

I already commit the sin of lust on a regular basis :) Every day I notice at least several aspects of my immediate environment that, in one way or another, remind me of my spouse's naked body :)

Push a shopping-cart through the aisles of the Retail-Maze

Boxes, jars, and cans, grams and litres of wants and needs

Endless, grueling, soul-numbing task that my spouse enjoys

How I hate the grand scenic tour of competing brands

What a relief to finally haul the groceries home

Mention another “coupon” or “sale” to me, and I’ll scream

Has to be the most deathly-spiritless chore of chores

Push a shopping-cart through the aisles of the Retail-Maze

You were the friend who gave me a haircut for free

You were the friend who leaned on my shoulder to cry

Now, you embody Thoughtless Authority’s fist

You have become Vindictiveness, Failure To Trust

I do not lie to a friend who cuts my hair and cries on my shoulder

That’s a rash slap on the face, but go ahead and call me a liar

All you can do is focus, command, and obey

You were the friend who gave me a haircut for free

The following list (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/ ) should make it clear that if it IS the government's place to decide which marriages are valid and which are not, then the government has a LOT of homework:

• After death marriage a.k.a Posthumous marriage - Permitted in France, a living person can marry a dead person of the opposite sex after the individual has died.
• Arranged marriage - A marriage that is at some level arranged by someone other than those being married.
• Boston marriage - marriage-like relationship between two women, not necessarily sexual; also historic lesbian relationships.
• Celestial marriage - marriage performed in an LDS temple.
• Child marriage - A practice in which the parents of two small children (even infants) arrange a future marriage.
• Common-law marriage - A form of interpersonal status in which a man and a woman are legally married because they live together.
• Covenant marriage - A marriage in which the couple agrees to obtain pre-marital counseling before marrying, and accept more limited grounds for divorce.
• Digital marriage - A marriage that occurs within a computer or video game.
• Endogamous - When marriages occur within the boundaries of the domestic group, between members of the same group.
• Exogamous - When marriages occur outside of the domestic group, between members of different groups.
• Fleet Marriage - The best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before 1753.
• Flash marriage - Speedy marriage between couples.
• Forced marriage - A marriage in which one or more of the parties is married without his/her consent or against his/her will.
  • Marriage by abduction - A form of forced marriage in which a woman who is kidnapped and raped by a man is regarded as his wife. This practice is limited to a few traditional cultures in a small number of countries, and is generally regarded as abhorrent by other cultures.
• Group marriage - A form of polygamous marriage in which more than one man and more than one woman form a family unit, and all members of the marriage share parental responsibility for any children arising from the marriage.
  • Line marriage - A form of group marriage in which the family unit continues to add new spouses of both sexes over time so that the marriage does not end.
• Heqin - Arranged marriage for political alliance during Medieval China.
• Hollywood marriage - A marriage between Hollywood celebrities or a marriage that is of short duration and quickly ends in separation or divorce.
• Human-animal marriage - A marriage between a human and a non-human animal.
• Intermarriage or Mixed marriage - Marriage between people belonging to different religions, tribes, nationalities or ethnic backgrounds.
  • Interracial marriage - Marriage between two people of differing races.
  • Interreligious marriage - Marriage (either religious or civil) between partners professing different religions.
• Lavender marriage - A marriage between a man and a woman in which one, or both, parties are, or are assumed to be, homosexual.
• Levirate marriage - A marriage in which a woman marries one of her husband's brothers after her husband's death, if there were no children, in order to continue his line.
• miscegenation - The mixing of different ethnicities or races, especially in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations.
• mixed-orientation marriage - A heterosexual marriage where one spouse is gay, lesbian or bisexual.
• monogamy - Marriage with one spouse exclusively for life or for a period of time.
• Mop marriage - An archaic common-law practice in which a couple could be joined by a local magistrate at the annual Mop Fair.
• morganatic marriage - A marriage which can be contracted in certain countries, usually between persons of unequal social rank, which prevents the passage of the husband's titles and privileges to the wife and any children born of the marriage.
• Multiple marriages
  • polyandry - The wife has several husbands.
  • polygamy - Plural marriages.
  • polygyny - The husband has several wives.
• Mutta marriage - A marriage for pleasure between a Shia man and a Shia woman or a woman who believes in the same.
• open marriage - A marriage in which the partners agree that each is free to engage in extramarital sexual relationships, without regarding this as sexual infidelity.
• plaçage - A recognized extralegal system in which predominantly wealthy and white Creole men in Louisiana entered into the equivalent of common-law marriages.
• putative marriage - An apparently valid marriage, entered into in good faith on part of at least one of the partners, but is invalid because of an impediment.
• same-sex marriage - Marriage between two people who are of the same sex.
• serial monogamy - Marriage to one spouse at a time.
• sexless marriage - A marriage in which no sex is had between the two partners.
• Shim-pua marriage - A Taiwanese tradition of arranged marriage, in which a poor family (burdened by too many children) would sell a young daughter to a richer family for labour, and in exchange, the poorer family would be married into the richer family, through the daughter.
• sister exchange - The husbands trade sisters to be each other's wives in order to keep any group from losing a woman.
• sororate marriage - A marriage in which a man marries his wife's sister, usually after the wife is dead or has proved infertile.
• Traditional marriage - A term used by the traditional marriage movement to describe only monogamous opposite sex marriages.
• Trial marriage - is a situation were the couples agree to stay together without formalising or legalising the relationship as they wait to see whether it is going to work out.
• walking marriage - a practice of a matrifocal group in which the woman accepts her lover each evening, but he departs in the morning to work in his mother's household.
• widow inheritance - the widow may have the right to require her late husband's extended family to provide her with a new man; more commonly, she is obliged to marry the one they choose.
• Yogic marriage is a tradition of Hindu Marriage done within Shavite Sadhaks and Sadhvis, to enable them to get positive energy from yajnans and homas.
• Ghost marriage -(among the Nuer of Southern Sudan)- a woman marries a man from the tribe that died before he could marry.
• Chinese ghost marriage/ Spirit marriage - where one or both parties are deceased.
• Posthumous marriage - marriage occurs after one of the individuals is deceased.
• love marriage - where the basis for the marriage is love.
• female husband marriage - (occurs in Africa) - in which daughters have been raised as males in order to ensure the continuity of the family and take a wife.
• Transgender marriage -

Just how much time/energy/money/resources DO we want the government to invest concerning itself with the personal lives of individuals anyhow? Just a thought . . .

Those of you who ask, please know that yes, I am okay

Tolerating life’s butt-end by living day to day

Living in a iron-fist-minded world of gain and loss

Sharing with my spouse true love, surviving every curse

Silence is not necessarily a red alert

Sanity’s down-time is healthy in a world of clout

Difficult events take place; we slowly find our way

Those of you who ask, please know that yes, I am okay