Best write that I've read in a while, thanks man.
I like the reference to Catcher in the Rye;
Rest in Peace J.D. Salinger

What, no pointy sticks?

X-factor

Alice in Chains- Rotten Apple

Yeah!!! No more taxes! Take the Power Back! Wait...errr... don't know if that would work.

Veering off subject a little-
First of all I think that tax law should be made simpler so that the common layman can understand it, and make it mandatory curriculum in high schools for ***** sake!
Then give the people more control over where it goes.

What do you think would happen if every American over the age of 18 had every cent of their tax dollars put into their own tax account. Then every quarter they were required to choose from a magazine of options on where to put it.
Some may give to fixing potholes on their street
some may give to education or medicare
some may give to development
some may give to nature preserve
Some may give to disaster relief funds
some may give to the peace core or medical research
some who feel threatened may give it to our armies
some may give to politicians they like and trust to spend it for them

this would force people to be aware of our surroundings and care
We can really test our "By the people, for the people" stance

I think media would take on a whole new face, dealing with real issues more-so than mindless, useless entertainment.

Sure, we would go through a slump at first
and there is always going to be lazy, reckless or destructive spenders
but we would have money coming from 300,000,000 places
It can't be worse than where our money goes now

In Seattle we paid millions of dollars into a new monorail construction initiative witch the voters repeatedly said they didn't want!

We paid millions into putting ugly brass fish on a section of free way wall! WTF? And they call that art?

the list goes on and on

My point is that if the people who blindly paid there taxes have more control over where it goes the percentage of where it needs to go would go up.

don't know if this is a new theory but it's new to me and it was fun to kick around
it might be chaos but it might work, getting there is another story

The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. -Albert Einstein

reflecting on my previous post-


This question came to mind again recently and it brought up non-violent revolutionists-



Martin Luther King Jr.had a huge impact on civil rights in America.






Mahatma Gandhiled India to independence through peaceful civil disobediance


Jesus Christ(religious beliefs aside) has had by far the biggest impact on the western world by peaceful revolution.

These men held ideals whitch only grew stronger with violent persecution and more powerful with their deaths.

I definitely agree that men are generally more grounded on logic more so than women, I guess that's why the coupling works so well. (or is supposed to)

It makes sense that a woman's intuition is stronger because she is built to have other souls in her body. She would need the intuition to know what her baby needs.

Not to say that there aren't logical women or intuitive guys, but that seems to be the way it leans.

I'm not sure if being an "air-head" would improve your 6th sense
unless you consider dreamers to be air-heads.
I always took the term to mean lacking brain activity and intuition is definitely a brain active function.

zipping

Built to Spill- Going Against Your Mind

Happy New Year from Seattle

Artist: Michael Franti And Spearhead
Title: Yell Fire

A revolution never come with a warning
A revolution never sends you an omen
A revolution just arrived like the morning
Ring the alarm, we come to wake up the snoring

They tellin' you to never worry about the future
They tellin' you to never worry about the torture
They tellin you that you'll never see the horror
Spend it all today and we will bill you tomorrow
Three piece suits and bank accounts in Bahamas
Wall street crime will never send you to the slammer
Tell all the children in the arms of their mommas
The F-15 is a homicide bomber

TV commercials for a popping pill culture
Drug companies circling like a vulture
An Iraqi babies with a G.I. Joe father
Ten years from now is anyboby gonna bother

Yell Fire, yo, yo ,yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

Everyone addicted to the same nicotine
Everyone addicted to the same gasoline
Everyone addicted to a technicolour scream
Everybody trying to get their hands on same green
From the banks of the river to the banks of the greedy
All of the riches taken back by needy
We come from the country and we come from the city
You play us on the record, you can play us on the CD
All the **** you given us is fertilizer
The seeds that we planted you can brutalize them
Tell the corporation you can never globalize you
Like Peter Toss said Legalize It
Girls and boys hear the bass and treble
Rumble in the speakers and it make you wanna rebel
Throw your hands up, take it to another level
And you can never, ever, ever make a deal with the devil

Yell Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Here we come, here we come
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Revolution a comin'
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo
Fire, yo, yo, yo, yo

I think it's interesting how female intuition is generally stronger with body language, reading vibes, and knowing what someone is thinking while men are generally stronger with physical intuition.
I think it is millions of years of life experience written in our dna.
Most people can't make tangibal thoughts out of these instincts because they rely too much on what they have been recently taught in their own life time. I think that children and animals are much more intuitive then adults. They have to be in order to survive and quickly learn.
This has probably already been talked about and picked apart in the 7 pages on this forum but this is an interesting subject and I wanted to add my 2 cents.

who offer peace
to settle the dust
the quarrel decease
the building of trust
nurturing love
the filth is sunk
grow crystals of
water blessed by monks
(12/13/09)

Thanks, I try
One more dark indulgence before I change my tune-

happiness
a happy mess
a soiled dress under the desk
smacked slap happy, hung out to dry
hellman's mayo, ham on rye
(12/8/09)

emptiness
an empty nest
a dirty mess in witch I rest
dark decisions of do or die
with crooked wings I'll try to fly

Thanks Ladylid

Rolling Stone

What does it mean????
I don't know but it sounds kind of good

here it comes again
the gaping pain of depression
called on to draw from it's musing lips
does this make me a masochist?

to climb a hill pushing a boulder
with the weight of the world on my shoulders
the searing pain of muscle tearing
the throbbing ache of wounds repairing

why do I build to burn it down?
and dig for something that can't be found?
I've traded the answers a long time ago
for the frivolous search of heaven and home

for who want a life of simplicity?
that lacks the thrill of electricity?
I spoke with my father and he said "Son,
happiness is a warm gun."

Damn, that was good! I think I need a cigarette