Jim in Anchorage

In the spirit of the season I will tell you it was not a "approach" to any higher plane of understanding. It was simply what is required in the wilderness, and I had reasons beyond it besides some "self journey" And yes I am proud of what I done surviving on my own in the wilds of Alaska, and I think that is really what Sage is more looking for.

Ask. It makes it so much easier to form a answer. I think I told you the first one.

You mean have done.

No Tom Dempsey jokes?"He missed by half a foot!!"

OK I kinda see what you are after, but skip the lentil thing. Go on a two week backpacking trip-a real backpacking trip, not staying in a campground. Just you and 30 lbs of gear. Wake up day after day in a damp sleeping bag in a cold tent with no where else to go. Discover your water purifier has frozen, the stove is out of fuel, and the mice ripped open your bag and took all the chocolate. Your boots and socks are wet and you try to dry them by a open fire and just succeed in burning them. Thats just a typical NY hiking trip and believe me I have been in far worse situations in Alaska. Every day I wake up in a warm dry bed I thank God. That will do much more for you're appreciation of life's comforts then a year of eating seeds.

They do alright with pot.

You answered the mystery of creation? And here I thought you where just a garden variety egghead

The "visit" my be longer then intended. Don't want to see em that bad, they probably speak bad English. Will wait for the next big bang.

I guess you weren't kidding about the mushrooms. Do you also go in a smoke hut to meet your ancestors?

I find it incredible that such a mess was not stillborn.

There may have been a infinite number of big bangs in the same Universe-a endless cycle of expansion/contraction. We just live in one of them. As far as if God exists, only the dead know and they ain't talking.

They asked if I was in the Hitler youth Nah #2 said center-right moderate social libertarian. Probably a fair label, considering some of the questions really required a essay to answer properly.

Face it mom the mob has spoken!

Who would have thought we would be one easy dropped pass away from beating Pittsburgh?

If the Browns can do it so can we.

I don't get what you mean.

To much work for the beatnik plant eaters. Yuch it's like just laying there dude! What do I do now, cut off little parts? Super gross man!

more likely opiates.

Jesus will you people just go sit on a mountain!

Incredible, you've met my brothers wife! Only person I ever met who had the Cleveland clinic on her speed dial.

You can give a vague answer in 500 words or less. Thats all I ask. Don't want to talk about it? "We are going to work on that-next".

Apparently it passed. The media are tripping over themselves calling BO "the come back kid" Just watched his press conference. The "press corp" did nothing but blow kisses at him except for some lardo[Noonan?] who was outraged the "rich" kept their tax cuts. BO then babbled for 10 minutes about how the Government needs money to invent things like the internet,blah,blah, and further more, etc. Dosn't he ever give a straight answer?

I smell a lawsuit.

That reminded me of a Simpson's episode where Homer is thinking " Come on brain get me through this so I can get back to killing you with beer".

Vs Lefty's who love a "living constitution"