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"We live in the postmodern world, where everything is possible and almost nothing is certain."
Havel is not the first to have said it, but what makes his comment interesting is that he is the first non-communist president of what was Czechoslovakia to speak that way. Communist doctrine was built on materialism: what you can see, touch, taste, hear and feel is all there is to reality. Marx built his theory on a radical vision that the material world is all there is and called religion "the opiate of the people." His version of mankind was that we find our meaning and our purpose from the community in which we live, the state to be precise.
The modern world was built on an assumption not too different in its own way. We inherited the scientific view of reality. That view of reality is similar to Marx in that it too is materialistic. The scientist says that the only version of reality that . . .
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Our daughter fell on the tile in her kitchen floor and dislocated her kneecap. In addition the ligaments securing the kneecap were torn. For two weeks her only means of walking was with cumbersome crutches. Her knee began to heal and she graduated to a knee brace for which we were grateful.
Meanwhile, with two young children, clothes still needed to be washed and dried, and food prepared for their meals. Seven year-old Brooke became her mother's helper. While dad was work, Brooke and I would wash clothes and dust furniture so that mom could rest her knee and let the healing process continue.
One day as I was busy with something else Brooke said to me, "Grandma, I am standing on my head in the washing machine!" I peeked around the corner and there she was with her stool pulled up to the washer and reaching her little . . .
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I did not win the Denomination Derby last year. Oh, I was out there competing. Well, not exactly competing....driving as fast as I could. I had won it the year previous and figured my car was running well and didn't need any messing with. Well that's not exactly the case either. Rob and I did mess with the suspension. "Mess" is the operative word too. Here is a tip...don't mess around with what you really don't understand.
But that wasn't even the main problem, though doing circles on the backstretch instead of straight ahead doesn't help. What the main problem was I think, is that my fuel line or the fuel filters leading to the fuel injectors got dirty and restricted the fuel flow. The result was that it would start and run fine at low speeds, so I had no indication there was anything wrong. But on race night, when I mashed the accelerator to the mat the engine revved then almost died as it starved for fuel. It surged then almost died all the way around the track. Every time I tried to pass it would give a moment of acceleration then just quit. It's really hard to race under those conditions. Valerie had a car that ran that way all the time and we finally sold it.
When you need power to pass, an anemic response just won't do.
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