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Break Time!

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Shannanigan
, 11-14-2006 at 01:40 PM (1429 Views)
I wonder if I have an addictive personality? Bloggins is certainly very addictive for me anyway. My only other addiction is caffeine. Hmmm...never tried smoking or any drugs, never felt the need to...and alcohol, well, I've known enough alcoholics to be scared of getting addicted to it, so I drink it very rarely...

Anyways, I really should be working on my final papers. The reason I'm here again is because I had two goals for today, and I promised myself a break once one goal was achieved. My first goal was to "strengthen" my thesis in a British Literature paper about Christina Rossetti's poem "Goblin Market." Great poem, by the way, if you ever get a chance to read it. I finally got the thesis beaten into submission...so now I'm taking a break before fleshing out my outline for my Virgin Islands History presentation comparing growing up in the Virgin Islands today vs. growing up one generation ago. The differences are startling! Good stuff, good stuff...

I like taking breaks. They're like mini-holidays, necessary but random periods of time to allow the brain to take a breather. Computers sometimes have to get restarted if you put too much strain on them, breaks are my brain's re-start time
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    Humans, by nature, seem to need an addiction or two. My two main addictions are coffee and cigarettes, although the nicotine addiction is one I really wish I could overcome. Suggestions on that topic would be greratly appreciated :-)

    As a species, we seem to be addicted to violence. especially against our own kind. We truly are ,as Desmond Clark said, the killer ape. We are the only species that indiscriminately kills its own kind. That strikes me as very strange indeed.
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    The most basic instinct any life form has is the survival of the species. if one accept the prinicples of the biological sciences. Yet, humans regurlarly indulge in acts of violence that could easily escalate into extreme actions that would result in the extinction of the human race, if not all life on Eart.h.
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    We have been given lessons on this repeatedly in the last 100 years, yet we continue to behave in the same irrational manner. Don't our leaders lstudy history? If we do not learn this lesson, we are doomed. With apologies to Montaigne.
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    Please read my previous three comments as a totality, strating with the first one posted. TYVM.

    BTW. a comment to LitNetwork: a larger space for commensts would be nice :-)

    PEACE!!!

    John
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    Yes! More space for comments would be WONDERFUL...it doesn't have to be an infinite space, mind you, I don't want whole theses in here, but enough to make a point or two would be nice! (Or are the lit net Gods trying to teach us to value our words? ) Il typ lk dis if I hv 2!!!!