tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.comments2011-11-08T08:27:20.867-08:00Doc Merlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13615897698740661539noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-77092373969722511462011-11-08T08:27:20.867-08:002011-11-08T08:27:20.867-08:00Not convinced that lottery winners do badly in the long run. When a lottery winner spends vast amounts spectacularly it is a news story - when they buy a slightly bigger house and car and invest the rest wisely this is not a news story so we never hear about it.neil craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09157898238945726349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-36970426152455131872010-05-24T07:39:40.733-07:002010-05-24T07:39:40.733-07:00I am amused at your observation that inheritance may have as harmful a character as winning a lottery. If one cared to - for drollness&#39; sake - one could read &quot;The Fall of the House of Usher&quot; with the potentially harmful dimension of the gift in mind. For its protagonist, the last, degenerated scion of a noble house, famously suffers from a mysterious illness - a &quot;settled apathy, a gradual wasting away of the person, and frequent although transient affections of a partially cataleptical character.&quot; His enigmatic entropy, and that of the rotting palace which is his inheritance, could be made into an allegory of the evils of the unmerited gift.<br /><br />In practice, however, I think inheritance is mitigated by a sense of entitlement that heirs tend to be inculcated in, though the guilt of the privilege-inheriting middle class is nevertheless proverbial. Is it not possible that the gifts (welfare, etc) from a Socialist state might have some of the same &#39;cushioning&#39; that the inheritance of the children of wealthy parents enjoy, since accompanied by the propaganda of the state&#39;s obligation to the individual? <br /><br />That is to say, perhaps the gift is not always the same in its effects on the recipient, cultural and ideological factors being important.<br /><br />As it is, to be sure, welfare payments and the like are illustriously problematic. Which is not to say that they might not be otherwise.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-33198611100718890692007-06-26T23:27:00.000-07:002007-06-26T23:27:00.000-07:00It's sosmsething that the Russians (experts in torture) would come up with!!!soniasunconsutling.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-39961237021913281582007-06-22T09:38:00.000-07:002007-06-22T09:38:00.000-07:00You have a dream, a song in your heart that still needs to be sang, a purpose dependent Only on God, a destiny to fulfill. Love you always, sunconsulting.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-24416707350727911952007-06-12T15:44:00.000-07:002007-06-12T15:44:00.000-07:00On another topic, check this web site, a Basque pastor. http://www.chosengeneration.cc/soniasunconsulting.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-76239157915633897702007-06-11T22:14:00.000-07:002007-06-11T22:14:00.000-07:00Bravo! It is a very nice poem. Mamisoniamgangotenawww.sunconsulting.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-27266013822170206772007-05-06T10:57:00.000-07:002007-05-06T10:57:00.000-07:00I had an image of this futuristic war, like when we used to play Starcraft, except it was from the point of view of one of the space marines. For a moment I was inside this guy's head feeling and seeing what he was. The poem is an image of that.Doc Merlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13615897698740661539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-21878298184364905302007-05-06T00:58:00.000-07:002007-05-06T00:58:00.000-07:00I heard a story recently about a girl's parents who found a snake in their study. Her dad freaked out and killed it with a shovel. It was very violent, very sad. :(Athena Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16655421013444384637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-1802477552228216992007-05-05T19:38:00.000-07:002007-05-05T19:38:00.000-07:00Get a toyota! Oh yea! Hmmmm....they built a new truck plant thingy outside San Antonio so that might lower prices a tad. Also, there's autotrader.com! Yay! Have you looked there?Nañanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-89879995107160263062007-05-05T19:29:00.000-07:002007-05-05T19:29:00.000-07:00Quoi? Quoi? 'Tis purty. What does it mean?Nañanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-11663848160767988212007-05-05T08:36:00.000-07:002007-05-05T08:36:00.000-07:00Wow! What did the kids do?soniasunconsulting.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-11286182478276438472007-04-18T23:05:00.000-07:002007-04-18T23:05:00.000-07:00Wow, deep, corazon.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-53055131555021856052007-04-12T02:02:00.000-07:002007-04-12T02:02:00.000-07:00Mmm...cheetohs.Athena Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16655421013444384637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-3150889240185074972007-04-03T22:13:00.000-07:002007-04-03T22:13:00.000-07:00Are you ever going to update? Eh? <BR/>:)Athena Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16655421013444384637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-73368069842454868172007-02-27T04:34:00.000-08:002007-02-27T04:34:00.000-08:00It's beautiful... :)Athena Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16655421013444384637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-22186023958464571932007-02-27T01:52:00.000-08:002007-02-27T01:52:00.000-08:00FIRST COMMENT MUTHAPHUKKAZMC Zootnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-61243019795015239782007-02-12T10:40:00.000-08:002007-02-12T10:40:00.000-08:00Thanks Athena.<BR/>At five AM this morning, I had it embedded in my mind so I had to exorcise it.<BR/><BR/>P.S.: ...and the award for the first comment goes to Athena Stacy! (The crowd goes wild!)Doc Merlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13615897698740661539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6174765690603336342.post-47934370312624182922007-02-12T08:28:00.000-08:002007-02-12T08:28:00.000-08:00I like that. Kind of makes me think of when I left home...Athena Stacyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16655421013444384637noreply@blogger.com