Them's the breaks

So if I decide to shop at Walmart instead of Fred Meyer because they have cheaper products, no problem.
If I decide to shop at Fred Meyer instead of Walmart because they have better quality products, no problem.
If I decide to shop at Fred Meyer instead of Walmart because they respect my right to do whatever I want with whomever, then there's a problem.
Doesn't make much sense.
Capitalism is about competition.
Competition in quality and price seems to be okay. But, competition based on principle somehow creates a problem.
When People protest a company because they donated to support prop 8, we hear cries of "you can't protest because people could lose their jobs".
If I make a choice based on price or quality, are people not in danger of losing their jobs? If I tell all my friends and colleagues to shop at the store I like, aren't people in danger of losing their jobs?

A company can lower their prices or sell higher quality products to gain costumers.
Heaven forbid a company decides to change their principles instead of just firing people to get back their costumers.

Deep Horoscope

The odds are higher than usual that you'll encounter a future soul brother or soul sister in the coming weeks. Potential allies are gravitating toward you, even if neither they nor you are aware of it yet. You're also likely to brush up against a tribe or team you could benefit from knowing more about. That's why I'm counseling you to be extra open to meeting people you don't know. Talk to strangers. Ask your friends to introduce you to their friends. And consider the possibility of skipping over the customary social formalities so you can reveal some of the core truths about who you are right from the start.


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How many of us have them?

I've been contemplating how I interact with people.
What place they have in my life and what place I have in theirs

I've been contemplating friendship.
What is it really?
I did a little searching and there are some common criteria.
Some common types, certain degrees

I've created these divides
Who do I remember?
What encounter had an impact on my life?
Who do I like to spend time with?
Who can I confide in?
Who really cares about me?
Who understands me?
Who will not judge me?
Who will be there for me in the hard times?
Who will be there when I am hard?
Who loves me unconditionally?
Who have I shared experiences with?
Who do I share common interests with?
Who is my family?
Who believes in me?


There are some we are drawn to
People we learn from
People who teach us about ourselves
Make us take a different look at life and ourselves
Through observing their lives or active lessons

Every relationship is a process
It ebbs and flows, changes like all things
It all depends on the effort we put into it
its not instantaneous

Sometimes there is commitment
Interdependence. Both working to help the other reach their potential

To meet someone you would like to communicate with every day without feeling like you're overdoing it.

It goes back to love and what love wants from a relationship
Some aren't meant to be forever
Some we have to fight for
Some we take to a level that was never meant to be
Some we stifle, not allowing it to grow into what it was meant to be

What happens when you're supposed to love everyone?

To be Loved

How many know what it's like to be loved for you?
Not out of fear
Not because of what you can give them
Not because you can complete them
Not because they don't want to be lonely
Not because they don't think they can do any better
Not because they are waiting for something better
Not because they're waiting for someone to rescue them
Not because they've given up
Not because they have no hope
Not because they had no choice
Have you ever loved someone for themselves
and not for you?

Have you ever loved someone who loved themselves?
How does it feel to love yourself?

Are whites racially oppressed?

What happens to a person when they find out they've been lied to? More importantly, when that lie was in their favor.
Or rather, when you tell a big lie, you have to keep perpetuating that lie. If you don't, things get confusing.
White people are confused.
Privilege is something that is given to you. And it can be taken away.
Seeds of white privilege have been planted, now it's like a weed. It's not getting as much nourishment from the people who are truly in power, the ones who need white privilege (divide and conquer) to keep their power. They know that they'll never be blamed for the condition that the white working class has found themselves in. The condition that keeps getting worse because those in power take more (income gap) and leave us to fight each other for the rest. All they need to do is point to a new boogeyman or two (muslims and mexicans).

We're all being oppressed. Working class white people just don't realize who their real oppressor is.

cnn article

Open Dharma

loving kindness meditation

Great Horoscope site

FreeWill Astrology

Deep Thought

"my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker"
— Rupaul

Deep Thought

‎"Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all - to see life as it is, and not as it ought to be."
Don Quixote

Deep Thought

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations. -- Noam Chomsky

I'd like to add politicians who are no longer accountable to the people

Deep Thought

“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Deep Thought

Racism keeps people who are being managed from finding out the truth through contact with each other.

Shirley Chisholm

Organizing for poverty

Willie Baptist article

Sharon Marcus

Interview with Sharon Marcus, Author of Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England.