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I agree that aside from all the rationalization we can make regarding the conditions of the gift, this just feels like a scam, and a nasty way to deceive people, particularly after such a great tragedy that involved so much loss as Katrina.
Anyone see the thread Clavus made about reverse warning labels? I agree that maybe we do need to do some natural selection of our own!
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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