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Prescript: I'm looking for someone to go 50/50 with me and move to either Ecuador, Costa Rica, Belize, Guatemala, or Mexico where we can make a very low income go much further with a lower cost, and higher standard, of living (than living in the States on such a low income). This includes an only income of Social Security Disability (SSDI) and/or Retirement benefits. The Social Security Administration most definitely DOES allow SSDI and/or Retirement benefits, but not Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits, to be sent to recipients in most other countries! There are many books about moving and living abroad available at the public library and/or at Amazon.com . Naturally, I realize we would probably have to spend some time getting to know eachother, and finding out if we're compatible, before moving abroad together. We could even have our own separate "spaces" by choosing to rent or purchase a house or apartment with separate quarters, and still save considerable money in monthly costs compared to living in the States on the same income. If you might be interested, want to ask me some questions, and/or want to discuss it, please e-mail me at the address below.
CONTENTS OF THIS PAGE
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Life
Withdrawal
I'm Dyin' Of A Broken Heart
Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke
(Some Inspiring Quotes of the Great Authors)
Emily Dickinson
(More Inspiring Quotes of Another Great Author)
Dale Wasserman, Man Of La Mancha
(A Wonderful Quote from the Play)
Are You Too Far Gone 1
Are You Too Far Gone 2
Are You Too Far Gone 3
M. Scott Peck, M.D., People Of The Lie
(Quotes of a Very Accurate Author and Book)
LIFE
[Copyright (c) 1996 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Life is a test
We don't mind experiencing
But we don't like to fail.
Test after test, after test,
Yet some of us are not
Good test takers.
We do our best
But nothing seems
To come out right.
Those of us like that,
We sometimes feel like we're cursed,
And like we were born
Under a bad sign,
Like we're star-crossed;
We want to give up on life,
As well as all of these tests,
But life won't let us escape
Without committing the ultimate cop-out;
So those of us who don't give up
Hang in there, one day at a time.
WITHDRAWAL
[Copyright (c) 1996 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Many people have to withdraw
From the world
In order to keep their sanity,
If they can do so
Without going insane;
And, if many of us didn't do so,
We'd really become
A bane to both ourselves and this world;
But because we
Keep our distance from the insanity,
We preserve
Our ability to create and contribute
In our own small way
To the betterment and uplifting
Of society.
There have been many recluse's
Before us;
They are nothing new to our time;
And most of them
Will not be bad people.
I'M DYIN' OF A BROKEN HEART
A Song
(April 13th, 1996)
[Copyright (c) 1996 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
I'm slowly, too slowly, dyin' of
A broken heart
My heart's a-slowly breakin'
From all the pain in this life
All the pain cryin' out in
This world
Is breakin' my heart
Why couldn't I die more quickly
Instead of this sufferin'
Goin' on and on
Why can't somethin' put me
Out of my misery
'Cause this sure is no way to live
Slowly dyin' of a broken heart
I'm not a bleedin' heart
I'm a heart bleedin'
Bleedin' away all its desire
To go on livin'
Dryin' up from all the sorrow
Sappin' away
At his old dried up heart
Life's not worth livin' this way
(-Repeat this line and entire song-)
THE FOLLOWING ADDITIONS, QUOTES OF ROBERT A. HEINLEIN AND ARTHUR C. CLARKE, ARE NOT AN AFTERTHOUGHT, BUT WERE JUST DISCOVERED RECENTLY, AND WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 3-9-01:
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
(Some Quotes of the Great Author)
[Copyright (c) 1978 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by G.P. Putnam's
Sons, N.Y., N.Y. and/or 1995
by Virginia Heinlein. All
rights are reserved.]
"A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits."
"When a place gets crowded enough to require I.D.'s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere."
"The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of 'loyalty' and 'duty'. Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute---get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed."
ARTHUR C. CLARKE AND MICHAEL KUBE-McDOWELL
(A Quote of the Great Authors)
From the book, The Trigger
[Copyright (c) 1999 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by said authors'.
All rights are reserved.]
"No mercenary was ever a hero. You can't expect to be cheered when you change uniforms in the middle of the battle."
THESE QUOTES OF EMILY DICKENSON WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 5-12-01, AS FOLLOWS:
"Much Madness is divinist Sense---
To a discerning Eye---
Much Sense---the starkest Madness---
'Tis the Majority
In this, as All, prevail---
Assent---and you are sane---
Demur---you're straight (a)way dangerous---
And handled with a Chain---"
Untitled #435 (1862)
[Copyright (c) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)]
"This is my letter to the World
That never wrote to Me---
The simple News that Nature told---
With tender Majesty
"Her Message is committed
To Hands I cannot see---
For love of Her---Sweet---countrymen---
Judge tenderly---of Me"
Untitled #441 (1862)
[Ibid.]
"I died for Beauty---but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining Room---
"He questioned softly 'Why I failed'?
'For Beauty', I replied---
'And I---for Truth---Themself are One---
We Bretheren are', He said---
"And so, as Kinsmen, met a night---
We talked between the Rooms---
Until the Moss had reached our lips---
And covered up---our names---"
Untitled #449 (1862)
[Ibid.]
THE FOLLOWING QUOTE OF DALE WASSERMAN WAS ADDED TO THE SITE ON 5-16-01:
"This is my quest, to follow that star
no matter how hopeless, no matter how far
to fight for the right, without question or pause
to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause."
Copyright (c) Dale Wasserman, Man of La Mancha
Quoted in Gesundheit, a book [Copyright (c) 1993]
by Patch Adams, M.D., with Maureen Mylander
Continued below:
Continued:
HERE YOU GO WITH EVEN MORE OF MY POETRY AND FAVORITE QUOTES, WHICH WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 6-7-01, 4-9-02 AND 6-23-01 RESPECTIVELY:
ARE YOU TOO FAR GONE? 1
A Series of Poems
(June 7th, 2001)
[Copyright (c) 2001 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
"....There's something wrong with the world....
You're afraid to change...." The Movie: The Matrix
You're afraid of the Truth
Because you're "hooked in"
You're conditioned into believing
That "reality" is normal
And that the Truth is unreal
While all the while the Truth
Was the only thing that's normal
And "reality" is the only thing unreal
The gauntlet to overcome
Is to just let go
And fully accept the Truth
Only live in True Reality
And, whatever you do, don't be "normal"
For "normal" isn't truly real at all
But is the true "opiate of the masses"
Lulling them further and further asleep
Wake up and just let go
Or are you too far gone?
ARE YOU TOO FAR GONE? 2
(June 7th, 2001)
[Copyright (c) 2001 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Do you think you can't
Handle the Truth?
Do you think it's too painful
So you'd rather go on
Living the great big lie?
You CAN handle it!
You're just too used to
Not facing it
You've got to change your "tapes"
And get used to living in True Reality
The ONLY reality worth living in
As all else is true insanity
Listen to our "leaders" condone
The death penalty and killing
Really hear them promote and excuse
Vengeance and other such madness
Are you too far gone
To wake up and just let go?
ARE YOU TOO FAR GONE? 3
CRY OUT AGAINST THE SLAUGHTER!
(April 9th, 2002)
[Copyright (c) 2002 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by S. Wolf Britain.
All rights are reserved.]
Ceaseless, unprecedented massacres of untold thousands
Of innocent human beings by the terrorist state of Israel
Go on and on in Palestine and elsewhere without mercy
Which the United States government opened the door to
Through instituting the so-called "War Against Terrorism"
"Americans" are themselves committing acts of terrorism
By their own intolerable slaughter of millions of innocents
In the names of professed "democracy", "freedom" and "justice"
That should make us all want to throw up over and over again
For their endless murders of so many precious little babies
In the meantime, instead of carrying out protest without end
Against these gross atrocities and violations of human rights
We continually go to social gatherings to be entertained
And bow our heads in silence for the "American" victims
Pretending that we're "better" than other people worldwide
Ask yourselves, how can we stop crying for all the suffering?
How can we allow any of this unconscionable and inexcusable
Slaughter to continue, to escalate, and to go on and on and on
Without raising our "free" voices in alarm, activism and Love
Against all of the injustice, oppression and tyranny everywhere?
Or are you too far gone
To do what is right?
THE FOLLOWING FAVORITE QUOTES OF DR. M. SCOTT PECK WERE ADDED TO THE SITE ON 6-23-01:
PEOPLE OF THE LIE
Chapter: "The Danger and the Hope",
Subheadings and subchapters:
"The Dangers in Perspective",
and "A Methodology of Love",
Pages 263-269
[Copyright © 1983 in the U.S.A. and
Internationally by M. Scott Peck, M.D.
All rights are reserved.
(Emphasis in both parenthesis "( )"
and brackets "[ ]", in most
cases added by me.)]
"....The major threats to our survival no longer stem from nature without but from our own human nature within. It is our carelessness, our hostilities, our selfishness and pride and willful ignorance that endanger the world. Unless we can now tame and transmute the potential for evil in the human soul, we shall be lost. And how can we do this unless we are willing to look at our own evil with the same thoroughness, detached discernment, and rigorous methodology to which we subjected the external world?....
"....Despite their pretense of sanity, the evil are the most insane of all.
"It is to the incredibly dreary insanity of the Adolf Eichmanns of this world that Hannah Ahrendt was referring when she spoke of 'the banality of evil.' Thomas Merton put it this way:
"'One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Eichmann trial was that a psychiatrist examined him and pronounced him perfectly sane. We equate sanity with a sense of justice, with humaneness, with prudence, with the capacity to love and understand other people. We rely on the sane people of the world to preserve it from barbarism, madness, destruction. And now it begins to dawn on us that it is precisely the sane ones who are the most dangerous. It is the sane ones, the well-adapted ones, who can without qualms and without nausea aim the missiles and press the buttons that will initiate the great festival of destruction that they, the sane ones, have prepared.' (Raids on the Unspeakable [New Directions Publishing Corp., 1964, paperback edition, pp. 45-46].)
"What are we to do with the evil when their masquerade of sanity is so successful, their destructiveness so 'normal'? First, we must stop buying the masquerade and being deceived by the pretense. It is hoped that this book will help us toward that end.
"But what, then? It is an old maxim: Know your enemy. We must not only recognize but study these poor, dull, terrified people. And attempt to do what we can to either heal or contain them....
"....(W)e are all in combat against evil. In the heat of the fray it is tempting to take hold of some seemingly simple solution--such as 'what we ought to do is just bomb the hell out of those people.' And if our passion is great enough, we may even be willing to blow ourselves up in the process of 'stomping out' evil. But we run up against the old problem that the end does not justify the means. Although evil is antilife, it is itself a form of life. If we kill those who are evil, we will become evil ourselves; we will be killers. If we attempt to deal with evil by destroying it, we will also end up destroying ourselves, spiritually if not physically. And we are likely to take some innocent people with us as well.
"What to do, then? Like the patient, we must begin by giving up the simple notion that we can effectively conquer evil by destroying it. But this leaves us in a sort of nihilistic vacuum. Are we to throw up our hands--to regard the problem of evil as being inherently insoluble? Hardly. That would be meaningless. It is in the struggle between good and evil that life has its meaning--and in the hope that goodness can succeed. That is our answer: goodness can succeed. Evil can be defeated by goodness. When we translate this we realize what we dimly have always known: Evil can be conquered only by love.
"So the methodology of our assault--scientific and otherwise--on evil must be love. This is so simple-sounding that one is compelled to wonder why it is not a more obvious truth. The fact is, simple-sounding though it may be, the methodology of love is so difficult in practice that we shy away from its usage. At first glance it even appears impossible. How is it possible to love people who are evil? Yet that is precisely what....we must do....
"The resolution of this dilemma is a paradox. The path of love is a dynamic balance of opposites, a painful creative tension of uncertainties, a difficult tightrope between extreme but easier courses of action. Consider the raising of a child. To reject all its misbehavior is unloving. To tolerate all its misbehavior is unloving. We must somehow be both tolerant and intolerant, accepting and demanding, strict and flexible. An almost godlike compassion is required....
"....How does the methodology of love work? How does it heal?....
"....(T)he first task of love is self-purification. When one has purified oneself, by the grace of God, to the point at which one can truly love one's enemies, a beautiful thing happens. ....(T)he boundaries of the soul become so clean as to be transparent, and a unique light then shines forth from the individual.
"The effect of the light varies. Some on their way toward holiness will move more swiftly by its encouragement. Others, on their way toward evil, when encountering this light will be moved to change their direction. The bearer of the light (who is but a vehicle for it; it is the light of God) most often will be unaware of its effects [on themselves]. Finally, those who hate the light will attack it. Yet it is as if their evil actions are taken into the light and consumed. The malignant energy is thereby wasted, contained and neutralized. The process may be painful to the bearer of the light, [often] even fatal. This does not, however, signify the success of evil. Rather, it backfires.... (Emphasis in parenthesis "( )" added by the author in this case, and that in brackets "[ ]" added by me.)
The healing of evil--scientifically or otherwise--can be accomplished only by the love of individuals...."
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