It occurs to me that if I actually read and studied alll the legal material and complex legal terms found in our voter "pamphlets"; terms of service, contracts and agreements that abound when we use a game or join a site or if I were read the patient agreement forms beforee medical procedures I seriously doubt I would have time for anything else....

Reminds me of when I was asked to take an oath to defend the Constitution of the State of California I would suggest that we read and study the Constitution of the Great State of California it would take a good portiuon of my lifetime to study and understand it and by then I'd have a lot of grey hairs to decide if I really wanted to defend it after all...

- Art

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Ohh and yeh...and I almost forgot. I recall when I was in an auto accident and had a concussion with my glasses damaged I was asked to sign a medical release forum before thay could treat me... like I was bleeding all over the place and signing that release was more important!

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- Art

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- Johannes Kepler

I did read the fine print once on a medical release form. After reading all that could go wrong if I had this procedure done I opted out. The condition rectified itself.

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I hate the modern age and I especially hate the industrial age in history which led us to this point.

I am so tired of being just another gear of the machine in what has become a mechanic era of humanity.

Simplicity and virtue the great sages say is the best way to live ,yet in a age like ours such things become virtually almost impossible.

The way we value human beings in a almost dehumanizing manner and the ways our culture becomes materialistic is in my opinion a culture of poison.

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55th Stanza.
Wise in measure should each man be;
but let him not wax too wise;
seldom a heart will sing with joy
if the owner be all too wise.

Havamal~

Today we drink tomorrow we die.

Be weary of the machine so you don't become one yourself.

Thanks for the responses Lightkeeper and Runic sage...

Sometimes it helps to vent some about this stuff... I suppose you could say there's a tradeoff... there were some attractive things about living say a hundred years ago no doubt..or maybe even before the industrial revolution...but there were downsides too.

Courts and attorneys have brought our lives I think to a near standstill out of a belief that we can be protected legally or that the sellers or providers should be protected ...so pretty soon the weight of all this protection maybe weighs itself and inhibits everyone...

- Art

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"it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."
- Johannes Kepler

There are faults of course in every age ,but the bottom line in my opinion is we make life so complicated with our technological extravagance that we simply take out the simplicity and freedom out of life.

With technological advances humanity becomes short sighted of the natural world around itself and is heavily influenced on dominion of the enviroment or the dominion of other people in order to control through fear.

This of course is nothing new in the sense of hubris that is man ,but with the advances of technology such dominion and hubris is magnified with the grasps of technology.

When you get down to it we have not changed for the better at all with this technological progression nor have we become enlightened beings spiritually or morally.

We are still the same small creatures who enslave and make war on each other.

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Deutschland Das Nationalbewusstsein!

55th Stanza.
Wise in measure should each man be;
but let him not wax too wise;
seldom a heart will sing with joy
if the owner be all too wise.

Havamal~

Today we drink tomorrow we die.

Be weary of the machine so you don't become one yourself.

You make some good points Runic sage..

- Art

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"it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."
- Johannes Kepler

Thanks.

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Deutschland Das Nationalbewusstsein!

55th Stanza.
Wise in measure should each man be;
but let him not wax too wise;
seldom a heart will sing with joy
if the owner be all too wise.

Havamal~

Today we drink tomorrow we die.

Be weary of the machine so you don't become one yourself.