hick; one located in a rural or culturally unsophisticated area

yahoo: one  of a race of brutes, having the form and all the vices of humans, who are subject to the Houyhnhnms.

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Houyhnhnms. noun

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yahoo: 

( lowercase ) an uncultivated or boorish person; lout; philistine; yokel. 

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One is where one thinks.

   - Rabbi Yehuda Ashlag, "One Is Where One Thinks", in Kabbalah for the Student,

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Yahoo is initially where I go every morning for news I need to know. It used to be the newspapers, back when I was a suburban genius kid.

I cannot afford the luxury of papers anymore, so I scan them online and of course read their front pages as I amble around town. In the newspaper boxes.

So here it is, my knowledge of the outside world, the so  called “Real World” I went to college to find a niche in, but never did due to my mental illness.

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Yahoo tells me there is a “new Aids”.

Chagas, it is called: tropical disease spread by insects.

“"There are a number of striking similarities between people living with Chagas disease

 and people living with HIV/AIDS

particularly for those with HIV/AIDS who contracted the disease

in the first two decades of the HIV/AIDS epidemic."

Called “ American trypanosomiasis, “ it kills about 20,000 people per year. 8 million infected in the Americas, but it is not sexually transmitted. Insects are to blame.

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Middle East is where the action usually is, and I found that the , uh, no, just Madonna was kicking off a tour in Tel aviv…”Kicking off her latest tour in Israel was a natural choice for the Catholic-born singer, who over the past decade has become deeply involved in the Jewish mystical tradition of Kabbalah..”

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 "Misdirected life force is the activity in disease process. Disease has no energy save what it borrows from the life of the organism. It is by adjusting the life force that healing must be brought about, and it is the sun as transformer and distributor of primal spiritual energy that must be utilized in this process, for life and the sun are so intimately connected.

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I heard of that. Jewish mystical stuff, way way complicated, unlike my own preferred mysticism. I despise rules. Like Jesus did. I hate to be told how what & why to think. I get petty and juvenile in my disgraceful disrespect for such systems.  I never show it on OS, though. I wanna be liked by everybody, no matter their stupid paradigm. I got about fifty thousand paradigms in my head, and none of them are worthy of my loyalty for except maybe two or three minutes, like if I am talking to a Kabbalist. I play innocent.

“What, I ask you, is your Kabbalah all about? Why do I want it in my life?”

I ask.

I listen and absorb the meticulous instructions to ecstasy.

Tis an 'in one ear out the other' event usually....... 

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I have read too much American philosophy, is the problem. William James and Charles Peirce with their pragmatism. What is true? What works.

Dumb hick American, me.

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I love the Germans, though. Like Hegel .  To read him is the metaphysical equivalent of a 12 mile run.

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"We spoke to her for a few minutes and we asked if she would say anything about peace," Peace Now's Yariv Oppenheimer told AFP, saying it was the forum's first-ever contact with the petite singer, who has largely steered clear of getting involved with issues linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

"She told us: I will say much more than a word about it."

Since she arrived in Israel late on Friday on an El Al flight from New York, Madonna has reportedly spent much of time rehearsing, praying or attending Kabbalah events….

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Ha , I remember that sex book of hers. Now there was a bit of peace for a tormented adolescent like me, back when…

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 Kurt Cobain: "In a way I respect Madonna for the things she introduced because she introduced some subversive things

and it has nothing to do with sex

as far as I'm concern, I'm talking about the introduction

to the vogue dance which originated in the gay clubs in 80',

and she was always supportive of stuff like that which I think is really cool." 

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(there was gay news today too. a triumph? i saw gals kissing, which i love)

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This Eljekar fellow got me thinking about religion. I have always had a steady faith to the here & now, and in my theological thinking usually try to build a system of the Now.

Mystical loser, me. Don’t worry, I will get my words someday. With y’all’s help.

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Meanwhile!

I surf yahoo to gather the Zeitgeist.

They seem to have reached a verdict in mr. edward’s case. If he is convicted, he gotta cough up 1.5 million.

Also: 30 yrs in prison.

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I got sucked in by his boyish charm for a bit, I gotta admit. Shoulda known.

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Fuck, it is everywhere on the news channels.  I wanted to end with a bit of real news. Like about Syria. Isnt that important? How do you know what is ‘important’ anymore? I mean, some dishy gal on cnn tells you to pay attention to her story, you gotta listen. 

Yahoo says: in ‘science’ which at least is ‘objective’:

1.      The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.

2.      The distinctive "old person smell" you may have picked up on when visiting your grandparents most likely wasn't your imagination, a new study indicates.

"The results of this study support the cross-culturally popular concept of an 'old person odor,'" writes the international team  

The notion that the elderly have a distinct smell exists in multiple cultures, and usually the odor is said to be unpleasant. But this probably has more to do with negative perceptions of old age, rather than with the odor itself,  

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Finally some sense in this weird wild world! Thanks , Yahoo.

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 FROM OUR 'MEDAL OF HONOR ' WINNER, MR DYLAN:

"JOURNEY THRU DARK HEAT":

"there's a baby in the arms

of a woman in a rage

and a long time golden haired stripper on stage

AS SHE WINDS BACK THE CLOCK

AND TURNS BACK THE PAGE

OF a book that nobody can write..

the truth was  obscure

too profound and too pure

to live it, you had to explode. "