For Those Who Care –

10/21/2006 9:34 PM
 
Gah!
 
I was just editing the body of this old entry, didn’t touch the title at all, and it pops up as a new entry!
 
Sorry.
 

 

15. Is there a moment you wish you could re-live?

 

Well, there was that time in a St. Louis hotel with those two girls … Oh.   My.  God! … Baby!  *shudder*

 

 

But seriously?  The moment I told my dad he was an alcoholic.  I’ll never forget the pain in his face.  I’d re-live it so I could bite my arrogant, 17 year-old tongue and never let the words escape my mouth.

 

 

16. If you could, would you rather move forward or backward in time?

 

 

Both directions have adventure to them but I think I’d pick forward because I’d like to see if I could get on a Moon or Mars trip before I die.

 

 

17. Favorite musician(s)?

 

 

See #3

 

 

18. Favorite book?

 

 

The Course in Miracles (A spiritual guidebook … a difficult spiritual guidebook!)  

 

 

19. What one thing would you want to have with you were you stranded on an island?

 

 

The Course in Miracles  (and those two girls from St. Louis.)

20. Would you rather meet God or Satan?  What would you ask them upon meeting them?

 

 

God!  I’ve already met Satan!

 

 

I’d ask God if I was done learning yet and if not, could he help me be less fearful to love as he is.

 

 

21. Do you have a favorite word?

 

 

You would ask this question immediately behind the previous one …

 

 

“Sonnofabitch!”

 

 

22. Do you have any tattoos?

 

 

I had a smiling little devil tattooed on my right buttock when I was about 19 but now that I’m 103, it slid down to just behind my right knee! 

 

 

(No, no tattoos.  😉 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

23. What do you consider your worst fault?

 

 

 

 

Holding to the logic of #9 above, I don’t have any “faults,” I have only “wounds.”  My worst wound is my ego.  I demonstrate the worst possible behavior when I let my ego take over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24. Some of your posts seem to have a religious angle to them.  Are you religious?

 

 

 

 

 

I was born into the Catholic faith and even “served time” as an alter boy (whaddyaspect, bein Italian and all?)  I no longer practice any religion.  I consider myself spiritual but not religious.  That is, I believe in God but not the self-serving religions that propose to follow God’s word. 

 

(Where did this concept of a punishing God ever come from anyway?  Man?  Naw … you think?)

 

 

25. If you could meet with any three people since the beginning of time, who would they be and why?

 

 

 

Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, and Mother Teresa!

 

 

Because they were mortals who demonstrated the God-like concepts of love and compassion and I would like to ask them how they did it and to enlighten me so I could achieve it too.  (There were others down through time; those are just my three.)

 

 

Oh, and I’d like to meet the guy who invented Spandex just so I could tell him, "Great fucking job!" 

 

 

     *high fives Mr. Spandex*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26. Why are men such as*sholes?

 

 

 

FEAR!  The same reason anyone behaves in a hurtful or attacking manner.

 

 

 

 

 

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            Some would say yes, some would say no … what do you say?

 

 

 

 

 

28. What do you do for a living?

 

 

 

 

            I’m a financial advisor.

 

 

 

 

 

29. Where do you live?

 

 

 

 

 

            Southern California.

 

 

30. Once, in a private note to me, you said we all live the life we really want, in spite of what we say.  Could you elaborate?

 

 

 

Whew, that’s long and involved.  I’m working on that as an entry all its own, but briefly …

 

 

 

 

 

Frequently, we don’t like to take responsibility for ourselves so we try to find reasons, always external to ourselves, why we have this or that problem or issue.  If you look closely, and without fear, at each issue, you will always find that the current issue goes back to a previous choice, or choices.  Our choice, not someone outside ourselves … our choice.

 

 

 

 

 

There is a component of spiritual belief in this concept also … so those who do not believe in a higher power, will usually not find value, i.e. peace, in this concept.

 

 

Well, I’m sure you’re about sick of my views of the world.  Thanks for your questions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok now, how many orders for The Accommodator do I have?&nbsp

; Don’t forget all those Spring and Summer weddings coming up.  Order them for shower gifts.

 

 

 

 

 

😉