- Well put!

Sky Diving School

Hmm, ‘Why aren’t there more single fathers?’ There are a few answers to this, most notably that (1) most mothers wouldn’t sell their children at any price, and (2) apparently many fathers are not only happy to give their children away (or at least sow the seeds with total disregard), but will pay someone else (usually the mother) to take care of their children, as long as he doesn’t have to do it himself.

In other words, it’s human nature, baby. Of course, there’s always adoption, although if a representative of an adoption agency reads your little screed and decides you see children as commodities to be bought and sold, adoption may not be an option for you.

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Now, most of you fall into that sphere of mind and it’s evident in your responses to Philip’s ideas.
Whereas Philip is all about quality and he gave his all to us. How many of us can claim to give as much and in quality too – not withstanding good or bad ideas?

How many of us can consider to have done as much research into an idea as Philip does before we strike back to question Philip’s credentials?

It calls for each of us to look into our own selves and looking up to Philip for his courage to speak up on society’s ills and probably none of us is smart enough to distinguish whether it’s Philip’s personal evil or society’s at large.

Probably none of us have the breath or scale as Philip’s amusing mind.

On a personal note, I’m glad to have known the existence of this man who has proven to us how redeeming man can be and probably most of the people alive on this earth who are looking for answers to life’s preplexing questions do have references to all ancient sages and scriptures but life is still as troubling and numbing to them.

Look no further, here’s one man who takes on life head on to the limit with all (almost) virtues intact, well, until he burns up.

Go on Phil, give us the ride of your life so that we can keep on laughing but more so, learn from you (not available anywhere else).

Rob, you may be correct about Phil’s credentials, but he turned his ideas into millions in hard cash. I wish I can say the same about myself. It’s one thing to have great (or even mediocre) ideas. It’s quite another to turn them into real money. That’s why most of us are still dumbly slaving away for our CEOs while they zoom around to PGA tournaments and Carribean retreats in company jets.

There will always be another craze over some other new-fangled invention. Just be sure that you recognize it sufficiently in advance that you’ll able to profit from others’ lunacy. Don’t believe me? Check out Devil Takes the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation. There have been many crazes, and they are remarkably similar in progression, even if the object of obssession is different.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452281806/qid=1062429331/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-2333760-4739033?v=glance&s=books

Great idea. I’m glad someone’s got the balls to voice these ideas. As the great light of civilization, the U.S. tends to have some archaic ideas about love, marriage, and child-rearing.

Ramakrishnan, he’s not a prof or even a lecturer. He barely got his PhD in ‘99 during the height of the internet craze on a faddish thesis about creating online communities. Post-dotcom-crash he’d be lucky to pass that off as a senior year project at MIT.

At some point you have to let it all go and realize the bigoted nature of the human species. Every group has had its time under the gun. Are the Jews filthy usurers? Are the Arabs crazed fanatic killers? In New York we have a preponderance of Jews and a lot of Arabs. They don’t seem to be very different from each other or the rest of us, trying to make a living, raise a family, have a good time. As a pagan, I am fascinated by their holy days, their calls to prayer, their rites and beliefs, etc.
There are many stories for and against each group. Ultimately, if one group or another gains control or power, we will have to respect their ways as we now respect the ways of those in power in spite of the fact that they are probably not ours.
It is not a person’s affiliation that concerns me as much as their complaints, the injustices they have suffered, and how they plan to rectify them. I don’t like having bombs thrown at me, just like the Iraqis aren’t too happy about their situation. We have now entered the age of terrorism, little guys have found a way to get at the big guy burrowing in like a splinter under the nail.
Lot of little guys and only one big guy. I don’t think the Arabs are the last oppressed group we’ve heard from.

I don’t generally generalize, but women desire children and men desire sex. Men will not be single fathers, for they do not desire children, just as women do not desire sex, generally speaking.

i’m looking for some tuition help this semester. i’d happily ‘handle’ a pregnancy for you philip. waddya say?