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It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain. I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments

Quotes to raise the hairs on your neck...

Tyler Durden:

• The first rule of Fight Club is - you do not talk about Fight Club.
• The second rule of Fight Club is - you DO NOT talk about Fight Club.
• Third rule of Fight Club, someone yells Stop!, goes limp, taps out, the fight is over.
• Fourth rule, only two guys to a fight.
• Fifth rule, one fight at a time, fellas.
• Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes.
• Seventh rule, fights will go on as long as they have to.
• And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Good evening! Time for another lunchtime adventure. Like the song says, free your mind and the rest will follow. Tonight, I found an interesting news story that ties in with some research I'd done a while back about underwater cave spelunking in the Yucatan. Which is also food for thought on the end of the world in 2012, the changing of the magnetic poles and the new age of man. So much to cover, but I really wanted to stick more to the ancient Mayans and a little about their culture compared to ours and their religious beliefs as well.

The gyst of the article is that in the ancient Mayan civilization, they believed in an underworld similar to the Christian belief of Hell, where people are tortured and punished. This underworld, a land called Xibalba which literally translated means "Place of Fright" was a belief that ran deep within the civilization. The deep cistern-like wells that exist around the Mayan world are called Cenotes and Mayans would make offerings at these waterholes because they both feared and worshiped the things they believed dwelled in the depths of them. They saw them as gateways into the underground.

Which brings us to some interesting notes on their religion. The Popol Vuh, the "Bible" and mainstay of the Mayan Religion, is a collection of stories that chronicle the creation of Earth and Mankind. What I found interesting in my short reading is that the stories fall into line on quite a few points with what is written in the Christian Bible. Oh, calm down now, not exactly the same, but a lot of the basic points are there. Which I find absolutely fascinating and amazing. So similar, yet so different. They had an extremely developed civilization and yet they apparently walked away from their cities in droves. Which is part of what they hope to discover some clue to when they begin their dives into the Cenotes.

What sort of religious offerings will they find? In some, they've found human remians, jade, pottery and many other things. I will be looking forward very much to the discoveries and knowledge that this brings forth. Anyways, that's my little bit of knowledge for the evening. Hope you found something of interest in there. As for the 2012 thing, eh... Spend it like you got it until Decemebr 2012. If you are wrong, well, you just owe a lot of money. If you are right, it won't matter much at all. Thanks for stopping by. As always, let me know your thoughts in comments.

Philosophizing: a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written, often superficially) of a particular philosophy

While I realize this doesn't fit under Philosophizing proper, being from the Midwest, it's a catchy slang for thinking. I decided I'd try to take some time every day to read something, not that difficult given that I take in information like a sponge and briefly do a bit of out loud thinking about the subject. Guidelines are pretty simple. Anything goes subject-wise, cannot be something like biogenetic engineering and the 150+ mutations per generation offsets and discuss each one individually and as a whole. Too wordy. It must be something that can be researched and discussed by just about anyone. It's a good way to stretch your mind a bit and if you care to follow, I'll try and post some links I run across in the research of the idea. Oh yeah, it can't take longer than what the normal lunch period would take to put it all together. Basically a research paper in less than 60 minutes. LOL. Ready? GO!

First up is an article on how the current theory is that the moon is in fact of earth origin. Basically the article discusses how what they are finding with missions to the moon is that the basic structure of the moon is consistent with a giant blob of magma being expelled into space, cooling into a spherical shape, because as we've all seen how a blob of liquid reacts to weightlessness in zero-gee space. So, in fact that could be the case. And it's odd that fossil records on earth show that the life teeming around that time, the trilobyte, is a massive part of the fossil record.

Basically, if something had hit the earth hard enough to spit out a big blob of hot magma, it would also have the effect of cauing a global weather catastrophe. This would indeed show up in the fossil record, as do the trilobytes, whom, at the time, were one of the most varied and prolific life forms around. Yet, suddenly disappeared. While they left massive amounts of fossils behind, it would seem to go hand in hand with the catastrophic event that they are so evident in the fossil record. Something that would send tsunami waves thousands of feet tall, rushing several hundred feet per second? Perhaps it was an eruption of epic proportions, but my bet is on an asteroid impact with earth. Not only would it wipe out most life on earth due to the cataclysmic nature of the event, but the weather patterns would be destroyed for many decades to come.

The asteroid link cited may have been after the collision that created the moon. I would imagine that the amount of force would need to be a couple of factors higher in output. Force = Mass x Acceleration with the resultant vector... Everyone still awake over there? Anyways, basically, the smaller a mass, the higher the velocity to cause as much damage. the bigger the mass, the smaller the velocity allowed. Throw a bullet at someone and ouch! But fire it out of a gun and bye-bye person. So finding the object, let alone it's mass, trajectory and velocity would be hard to ascertain. Then we run across theories and simulations like this one that say the moon is too poor in iron to be from earth. Would not a glancing shot of the earth create the same effect with little to no iron present? Perhaps.

For those interested, there is a nice article over here that goes into the theory I personally back. I'd also welcome anyone to comment about their own theories or post links to source materials pertinent to the discussion. My time is up tonight. Thanks so much for reading. It's been a lot of fun. Oh, and if you have ideas for tomorrow's topic, let me know.

So, things have been a little busy. Ok, a LOT busy. So here's some things I've been praising and pissing about:

Things I am Loathing this week:

• Working until after midnight every day this week.
• Family turmoil and drama. When will the theatrics ever end.
• Broken tools
• Mowing Grass. Two days worth. It was literally chest high in places and I'm 6'7" tall... Must needs goats...
• Banks
• Insurance Companies
• Governmental Red Tape

Things I am Loving this week:

• Moving my work schedule to afternoon shift. Mornings are free to do stuff and no day off to get it done.
• Having a semi-solid job (lately) amidst the turbulent industry flow down the toilet.
• Homemade Spaghetti. It's the simple things in life that are lots of fun and tasty.
• Having the opportunity to work overtime and catch up on bills. Make hay while the sun shines.
• Italian sub sandwiches for dinner. Homemade. Oh yeah... That's what I'm talking about. <sigh>
• Post Coital Bliss... 'Nuff said... <giggle>
• Playing with monkeys at five in the morning.
• Bosshole getting his ass handed to him for something he didn't let me do that he should have that I wanted to do..
• And I was there to hear it. It was like beautiful music to my ears.
• Actually having enough money at the end of the week to fill my empty gas tank. It's a 45 gallon tank people...
• Talk of hamsters and hamster babies. <sigh>
• Stewart's Key Lime Soda. Yummo!
• Getting the entire yard mowed, even though it took two full days to do it. Hallelujah!!!