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Originally Posted by fresnelly
You have to drag me into walmart but not because of some principled moral stance. I just find the shopping experience there unpleasant. Too big, too crowded and too chaotic. I also resent the hightened velvet security.
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I get the same soulless feeling from seeing the people mill about in Wal-mart that I used to get whenever I would watch people at nightclubs.
At least I was usually drunk at the nightclubs.
In the words of Sam Roberts: "One life to live, but we're doing it wrong...."
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
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Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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