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Every great idea, took birth in one great mind.

:Not sure what the exact quote is, but I remember it from somewhere.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

:The Unconquered (Equality 7-2521) in Ayn Rand’s Anthem

And that night, we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms is neither ugly nor shameful - but the one ecstacy granted to the race of Men.

:The Unconquered (Equality 7-2521) in Ayn Rand’s Anthem

What are you really seeking?

Freedom - to want nothing, to expect nothing, to depend on nothing.

:Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead (the movie)

Several people forwarded me and article from the New York Times - Hindu Nationalists are Enrolling, and Enlisting India’s Poor. I think by now most of the frequent readers of this site are well aware of my stance against any and all religious movements primarily for the reasons such as those outlined in this article… religion is the pinnacle of mass mind-control - and that is exactly what happened in Afghanistan with the Taliban and that is what any such religious education will create in the future as well.

I guess the bottomline remains that people are screwed in the head and it is never really going to be possible to eradicate such behavior from human society. The scum of society will contantly rise to the surface and every so often we will need to go in and clean the pond.

I can feel so unsexy for someone so beautiful

So unloved for someone so fine

I can feel so boring for someone so interesting

So ignorant for someone of sound mind

:lyrics from “So Unsexy” by Alanis Morisette in her album Under Rug Swept

My postings on sneaker.org have ben far and few in recent weeks. Haven’t had the motivation to really post information for a while, but it’s revealed itself to be something I need to continue doing from time to time to maintain perspective and sanity and more importantly just to vent. Still am not in a position to write about some things, but here is at some new content…

New in Thought — caught in the act!* on Monday, May 13, 2002

“Are you guys gay?” - Roxanne. - okay, okay, there is no story behind that other than my friend who I was visiting happens to live in an area which is considered the gay-area (he claims he didn’t know before he moved there.. yeah right ) And so when his neighbor saw three of us guys returning late at night, she asked us… “Are you guys gay” (maybe I should also menion that she was so drunk that we were afraid she wouldn’t make it up the steps okay).

Bitches. Just bitches.

It has really be a long time since I’ve posted any information to sneaker.org. And so I figured it probably begs some explanation as to what is going on here. And so this blog entry is actually going to talk about why I haven’t been writing.

In a nutshell the reason I haven’t been writing is s combination of factors. The primary reason is probably the return of ambivalence in terms of what information I can and cannot share in a public medium. Several people who I know and interact with on a daily basis know of this site and probably – from time to time – read it as well. That is good, but sometimes it is also the cause for a lot of second thoughts. My style of writing has been such that I try to stay away from specific incidents and mentioning specific people, but the fact remains that the incidents and more likely the people who are part of those incidents will know when I am talking about them regardless of how much I try and veil the specifics. Or it may just be that since I know what and who I am writing about, I feel paranoid that if that person reads it he / she would know as well.

There are other reasons as well – timing is a big one. I feel that there is a sort-of reverse statute of limitations on when I can write about certain things – i.e. there are some things that I cannot write about while they are currently happening – in real-time since putting my thoughts on the topic would be hazardous. Whether it is work related or personal… for somethings it may be better to allow some time to pass. The flip-side of course is that then the entries will never be as charged as they would be otherwise.

Furthermore, I think for some of the issues I would eventually like to discuss here, I am not done formulating a position on them. And they just require a lot more thinking and also more experiences in order to really know which way I stand on some of them. I guess it’s a work in progress.

It definitely hasn’t been easy to not have my usual venting valve open and instead have it squeezed tight. But hopefully over the next couple of months the timing and the thinking should all like up so that I can actually write more openly about some of the things. I think I might actually try to start on a couple of things sooner than later though since I seem to tend to forget otherwise interesting blog-topics if I don’t write about them soon.

“So are you telling me that the customer is a mental midget?”

:a brilliant response from a customer service agent requesting assistance on an issue where the customer just wasn’t understanding how to do something.