you, your fellow spammers and your whole spamming clan. i know your type. you get together and plot your evil spammage, having meetings in tounges while you negotiate penis pill ads. i know your type you evil spammers you!!

“You steal something that’s simply too precious to me. Time and attention. You don’t deserve it, yet you get it. You con me into giving it to you, and in my book that’s stealing.”
- like the way you worded “you con me into giving it to you”

real value = king.

glorious

keep well and in touch
alex – unleash reality

Did you kids grow over the allergies? So far it looks like our son is, thankfully. He’ll probably always needs to maintain a varied diet, but that would be beneficial for most people, right?

CONGRATULATIONS to you and your wife! Esmee is just beautiful! (And so is her name!)

My kids all needed soy milk the first year. One time I was hospitalized, and someone had given my daughter regular milk – and when they brought her to me to visit – I did not recognize her! She was puffy and red all over – it was awful. And I had another friend who’s baby had to have Nutramigen, the most expensive formula at the time. It is definitely heartbreaking when they are suffering and it’s hard to fix it.

I hope things smooth out for all of you!

I think that we have a set of core values that change very little over time, they do change though. Either through experience, or simply through aging, I’m not sure how exactly. I just don’t believe they are set in stone, not from birth or any other moment in time. They evolve over time with who we are, who we become and what happens to us. As such it’s a good exercise to rediscover your core values every couple of years. You may find that they have changed slightly. Maybe you’re ranking them in order of importance, and the order has changed. Or you actually have six of them, and have never verbalized the sixth value. That last one happened to me. When I first discovered them, I only got to choose 4. About 6 years later, I added a fifth value -> Growth. As this was one of my core values too.

As far as De Bono is concerned, he has great techniques for creative thinking and creativity in general. And for changing thinking patterns his techniques are awesome. The way he describes how his techniques work, combined with how the brain works make it valuable. As far as the core values are concerned though, I’m not convinced that they are thinking patterns. I feel the same about emotions. I know that we gain more understanding of how the brain works, but why we experience emotions like love, sadness, excitement or why we feel a deep connection to certain values cannot be explained in this way. I’m not convinced that the brain, and its inner workings, is the only originator of our personality, our being. But that too, is a personal conviction, and impossible to prove.

I hope this clears up some of my thoughts and feelings about this topic for you. How do you think and feel about this?

And that twitter outburst was a gimmick… Din’t ur wife give u a hard time abt it ?

Pass my *wink* to the baby.

Regard.