not a big sports fan myself but i do not equate it with non-thinking persons...Niels Bohr who got the Nobel prize in physics also go a gold medal for soccer...and i think the Qatar officials have a right to ban alcohol from the games...but i think hash is more tolerated in some middle east countries and perhaps they should provide THC for the fans or khat....one mans meat etc. etc etc....I see where the Musk Melon has gone Bi-poller...most captains don't fire the crew and then set sail...i just watched "Mutiny on the Bounty" with Clark Gable and Charles Laughton (1935) and it was pretty good...i am glad that it was pointed out that the horrible captain Bligh was considered one of the best seamen to ever captain a vessel...the mutineers did not end up so well...too many murders in the news...but i picked up a good DVD lecture called "Understanding Non-verbal communications" by Prof. Mark G. Frank...he says that archeologist have determined that ancient males were victims of murder in about 30% of the deaths...today the murder rate in New York city is about 0.0004% of the male deaths...pretty low by ancient standards...still seems like a lot of punks with guns to me...
"To insure health, a persons relation to Nature must come very near to a personal one; he must be conscious of a friendliness in her; when human friends fail or die, she must stand in the gap to them. I cannot conceive of any life which deserves the name, unless there is a certain tender relation to Nature. This it is which makes winter warm, and supplies society in the desert and wilderness. Unless Nature sympathizes with and speaks to us, as it were, the most fertile and blooming regions are barren and dreary" Henry David Thoreau "Journal" January 1858
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