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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 09:22am PT
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zBrown
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Get your Kix.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 03:30pm PT
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Pope Francis will canonize Father Serra Sept. 23 during his visit to Washington, D.C.
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/blessed-junipero-serras-cross-gets-a-kiss-from-pope-francis-63042/
Enslavement of and help in the eradication of native populations will go on the shelf with the rest of the grievances I have against the motherly church:
its stance on divorce, its refusal to countenance women priests, its harboring of pedophiles and enforced celibacy.
As to the California Natives, they were all "good persons" but this was not good enough for Mother Church.
She wanted souls, she claimed, but ended up with slaves populating her missions.
Humans are at base capable of fooling themselves along with others by claiming to be made in the image of God.
We are a race of idiots, in fact.
In reading the novel The Bitter Tea of General Yen by Grace Staring Stone, I ran into this conversation between Miss Davis,
newly come to China to marry a missionary, and the powerful but thoughtful warlord.
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General Yen says,
"Now I've told you what our goal is, tell me what you understand to be yours.
I'll see if I think it is so much finer than a life of agreeable social relations."
"You explain things so much better than I do, I don't know whether I can tell you."
She thought a moment.
"I suppose," she said,
our ideal is all contained in the words of Christ. "Thou shalt love the Lord, thy God, with thy whole mind, thy whole soul, and thy whole strength.'
And following that, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.' He himself says that is all the law."
"To love my neighbor as myself has always seemed to me a very disgusting injunction. I can only say that you don't usually carry it out.
You personally perhaps, but then you are strangely sincere.
To you the important thing seems to be a certain generosity.
You are willing (you must forgive me this, Miss Davis) to be generous at nearly any one's expense.
Most people are not.
Your tenet, if carried out, would lead to an inconceivable state of disorder.
It is possibly the theory most dangerous to humanity at large that has ever come into the world.
It is fortunate, perhaps it was inevitable, that it should have been accepted by races gifted with an ability to think one way and live another.
The Ideal. Yes. To them that remains sufficient in itself.
They hold itu up in one hand, as if it were a great crystal ball, and they say to others,
"See, this is what I aspire to. Isn't it beautiful of me!'
And with the other hand they quietly pick the purse of an admiring listener."
Megan burst out laughing, partly at the droll twist of his eyebrows as he said this,
and the sly gesture of the hand delicately picking an invisible pocket.
"It isn't fair to judge a man by what he succeeds in accomplishing," she said.
"Your theory of social relations, you admit, doesn't work out perfectly."
"No, it does not.
But taken purely as an ideal of conduct, tell me why I should be expected to love and aged beggar,
who sits outside my gate, who is a congenital scoundrel,
and who is loathsomely afflicted with elephantiasis?"
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As for me, I am content to at least think, in quiet early meditation and examination of my conscience,
of how I can be better and how can I help others in the same direction.
I'm getting older and not very much wiser, but I can go to my grave knowing that I have tried to make the world a better place.
This is not sanctimony on my part.
It is part of my personal shabby system of belief, reflecting many-many different influences.
And I don't make any claims as to its superiority over others, nor do I make apologies for it.
It is what it is and it is, among those many influences, mutable.
Dogma is a pile of steaming dog-poo, one might say.
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zBrown
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He already has his own museum (donated by the venerable George Marston along with Presidio Park) and now gonna be a saint. When shall we come marching in?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2015 - 04:28pm PT
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^^^Genius!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2015 - 05:36am PT
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Whatever you do this weekend, be fire-safe.
[Click to View YouTube Video]This was fun and less emotional than wingsuit flying.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2015 - 06:52am PT
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2015 - 03:12pm PT
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Different Drumsticks, or Nutty Buddies On Holiday
About a mile, mile and a half, maybe, down the road at the all-white house,
Annette is dreamin’ her 115th dream of herself as the barefootin’ babe without boots.
Several other bathing booties attend her wakin’ moment.
Chief Deerfoot and Sir Smirk Douglas are delighted over the dancin' girlies
while Wild Bill Holden is left holdin’ the bag; but he’s a good sport about it all.
In spite of the ice storms, the juvenile delinquents from Camp 4 are havin’ a pool party,
hopin’ to attract some booty in hopes that ST. Nicholas soon will be there.
Touchy old Christian that he is, Roy Reindeer becomes alarmed,
and begins utterin’ not very forceful commands to all to “Sit. Stay.”
But then Isaac Singer Bashevis tells him to STFU and renders Jingle Bells in Turkish.
His performance is taped by a CBS News crew, the Yankees clinch the pennant the earliest it’s ever been clinched,
the entire state of New York begins celebrating Labor Day in record temperatures.
I awaken and haul my body out of the pool at the top of the Falls as the shadows extend eastward over the valley.
Summer’s finally over and I get to put away my white things, which are so hard to keep clean.
I head down the talus trail to the coffee shop, thinkin’I might have a cup of Garuda Blend and sayin’ to myself,
“That was old school 5.9 or I’m a heretic. I’m glad it wasn’t my dream. I wonder what’s for dinner.”
As I pass the government stables, the Rev appears magically alongside,
totin’ a brown grocery bag filled with artichokes he has brought up all the way from Castroville.
And he says, “Fresh vegetables.”
I am content; for, in spite of the drought, there is enough water in camp to boil the artichokes,
even though my dirty white things may have to wait to be laundered.
Merrily we roll along,
Roll along,
Roll along.
Merrily we roll along
The stream of consciousness.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
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Out Of Bed
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Some thing is a miss in the sizing ,
As I return you to your previously scheduled programming
A and ah ~ "It isn't fair to judge a man by what he succeeds in accomplishing," she said.
read or red this and thought well. No the world at large turned out to be
Anal as some climbers ; keeping logs of miles not just climbed but walked and a list of every thing they booted up for. Di Antonio, counts everything. Satan lives here in small rock hell with and rules the stone with a chisel or is that ruins it .
I have just come in from a short stroll in the starry night my own self the dog went want to bet I almost can't see her at all it is so dark and all.
I want to move some picks of the Kirkland trreport to here,
In loo of that ,
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looks awesome-fun
very fun write up and cool 'home page!
' love the dogs and dogs dogs swimming sharing the stick !
Then this looked sort of similarin a Minnie me sorta way
all right no resemblance
Grreetings from small rock hell. Below is the start of the crux of right trending crack 'fear size' finger locks, to jams to a fist stack around the corner.
Thanks for this excellent TR It put a big smile on my face! This did it again, made me want new ankles !
I always want to go !
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