Have you ever read any of Ken Wilber's works? He's an American philosopher who's done a huge amount of work on Integral Theory. I find his ideas give me a very useful framework for balancing the political and the spiritual. Try his books "Integral Psychology", and then "A Brief History of Everything", if you're interested.... they'll make your brain hurt, but they're well worth it.

Didn't Mel Brooks write that for Reader's Digest? Talk about paradoxical oxymorons or something like that .........almost...... I think?

I should try to write a book by the same title. Ok, here goes.

Adam, Eve, serpent, apple, religion, wars, Disco, George Bush, Armageddon, the End.

You left out the 1960s, Larry.
And shouldn't the last item be "the Beginning of the Rest"?
;=)

Sorry, I couldn't remember the 60's.

Barbara wrote: (see above)----Thanks--I'm always looking for interesting new stuff to read. And almost everything hurts my brain, so it'll be ok. BTW, I've been tryin' to locate THE brain cell. Anybody seen it?

You can't find it unless you have it. I know it sucks, but that's the way it works.

Then I guess it's whereabouts will always be something I can only imagine.....

I know that sometimes it hops a freight train... it jumps onto the track when a train is coming, and gets stuck to one of the wheels... thus getting squooshed and elongated, like a penny on the track. That's how the brain cell stretches its mind!

Oh, the ole brain cell extreme hobo yoga theory. I did find it one year, stretched out on the train tracks next to the church during one of our tailgates. I peeled it off with my Swiss Army Knife(carefully of course) and I sported it as a bandana for much of the afternoon, until it was whisked away from me by a sudden gust of wind. It floated away much like a lost balloon at the county fair, and I was left standing there pouting like the child that lost said balloon. I heard that NORAD picked it up on radar somewhere in the ozone layer(which explains alot). Since then, I have no idea where it may be.

Maybe the Republicans are looking for it so that they have at least one brain cell at their convention next week.

It would never get anywhere near the Republication Convention. It IS a braincell, after all!

Yeah, but I wouldn't put it past the Republican'ts (not a typo!) to try to steal it, along with everything else they've stolen so far (America, human rights & freedoms, our tax dollars, etc., etc.).

haven't seen it anywhere down here but I'll keep looking.

weird... my glasses are like that... wonder if they're related??...