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To: Clappy who wrote (101015)	3/22/2020 2:43:46 AM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104164

clapton's geetarr- I always rely on you for advice and something positive to see or another way of looking [at] things. I could really use this. ... You are my favorite person to read. glad to hear you won the bet. i told my hospice social worker and the hospice chaplin i was a writer. they asked me what i write... i said, "letters". ;-) i've done it all my life... first with pen and paper... then with word processor and printer... and for the last 25 years, with computer keyboards emails, websites, and forums. i like to include pictures and videos now too. i haven't mastered the tweets and the texts yet. i love brevity but those are TOO brief for me... and the keys are too small for the big FAT finger that i type with on my phone. I have a few old geezer friends i write back and forth to. We're sharing our observations of the final stage of life. we're not busy being born, we're busy dying. we're watching it. we're sharing and reporting what it's like to stare it in the face and really be present with it instead of doing everything we can to stay alive until we're 239 years old. not many do that and they miss out on the vicissitudes of the final stage of life. i'm doing a LOT of writing lately. I'm slowing down mentally... losing memories and vocabulary but it's kinda fun to see the creative process at work... trying to find new ways to describe stuff with a much smaller vocabulary. i use goo-goo all day and night to help me out. it's fun. my neighbor (the one who spams all of us with emails full of jokes) you know... you probably have a couple of friends or family who do that and have you on their 85 people email list, no? okay... lemme get back on track... this neighbor sent out something about the great division between conservatives and liberals and how each side looks at the other as just plain STUPID. i wrote him back with my observation that the difference wasn't in intelligence or smartness, it was a difference in morality, with the conservatives being less trusting of people in general... thinking we all need supervision, rules and authority to keep us getting along... without harming or taking unfair advantage of each other. i suggested that the liberals were more prone to see people as basically honest, trustworthy and caring of their fellow man. one side sees the truth in the adage, "An eye for an eye." while the other sees the truth in "Forgiveness and turning the other cheek" ...the hawks vs the doves of peace... the fighters vs the lovers. he liked the concept and wrote me back a long letter discussing it. i just finished writing him back again giving him my forecast for what's going to happen with the government now that it's finally showing itself to be totally obsolete, dysfunctional and beyond repair. issat something you'd like to read? it does sort of help to see how we're going to get through this brick wall of a pandemic, a travel ban/shutdown, a market crash, a climate warming crisis... and a huge international bankruptcy. we're going to have to start by being first responders, helpers and rescue support workers. then we'll hop on the band wagon of the new infrastructure of the information age with TOTAL TRANSPARENCY and Artificial Intelligence monitoring the NOW and making decisions for us based on current data that no human alone could ever possibly process and do in real time. anyway, i could forward it to you if you want to read it. or... if you have specific questions for me, you can ask them right here and i can give you my faux-zen dead-man-walking opinion of what you could/should do to make the world a better place. this is the kind of drivel i post here on SI all the time anyway. <g> in fact, for a limited time only, during the shelter-in-place phase of life in america. i'll be offering this advice at a 20% lower cost than lucy van pelt's "5 cents please". i'll let my faux-zen help, advice and koans go for only "4 cents please". (you could buy 125 koans with the $5 you won on the over/under) -pepe - (the wise chihuahua in a blankie) ps- did you get your songs from rob's bro-in-law, tom yet?. i downloaded them and listened to two and a half. when i've heard them all, i tell you which was my favorite. you do the same, eh?