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Good Morning Friends,
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today is Monday June 22, 2009
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Well, here we are friends, the weekend is over and it is time for another moody Monday. Are you having a moody Monday or are you out and about enjoying life? I suppose that explains the whole thing anyway if you know what I mean. How you feel is really just a state of mind anyhow. And, that really is the key to the success of life I think, trying to live a happy and productive life - well, as productive as you want it to be of course. I realize that productive is kind of a loaded word so I had better watch what I say.
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" No nibbles yet...." that is my title and my area of concern this morning dear reader. The girl of my dreams has not visited my web site yet ( as far as I know that is ) and has not had a chance to consider my latest proposal of marriage to her. You can read my proposal here: Marriage Proposal Number 3 It is a real offer you know, as genuine and as bona fide as it gets. If she phoned me out of the blue could you just imagine how happy that would make me? I mean, I would be just dreaming about all of the details involved in getting ready for the marriage ceremonies and everything. It would be all just too much for me I suppose. But, it would be wonderful just the same. Can you actually imagine Carl Baydala being married to a real live girl? Well, I guess anything is possible and even this marriage scenario is a possibility I suppose. But, alas, it is the love gods who control these things, as they control all things of course. We can only hope and wait..and wait some more I suppose. I guess it is a really good thing that I am so patient. I learned my patience skills from fishing you know. Why, I can fish all day and love every minute of it. And, I don't even have to catch anything either. Just as long as I am out and about in nature then I am happy. Most likely the happiest person in the world if you want the truth. I love being with nature and the solitude of the whole thing. That is why I could probably wait a whole life time for this girl to respond to my offerings, because that is what I have been trained to do - and that is to wait for the right opportunity to come along. You know, I heard a little saying on the radio just the other day. It was about our former Prime Minister Elliot Trudeau. He said and I am quoting the radio station here. And, I think it was related to getting a job or something along those lines. But, I think it could apply to love as well. The saying was that getting a job was not a matter of luck, but of preparation and opportunity. So, I am ready for love and I have most definitely prepared myself for it - I am just waiting for my opportunity, with the girl of my dreams that is all.
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Finally, I just want to say a few more words about the philosopher Ayn Rand. I spent the whole weekend with her actually, well not personally with her, but thinking about her and her philosophy. I watched her three videos over again and made some posts about her in various parts of my blog. I even got a few visitors on account of that. I would not say that I am a big time admirer of hers, I am just a sympathizer with some of her more prominent ideas, namely atheism and the fact that man is a selfish creature. I agree with these things. I like her ideas on love and the idea that it should be earned and that both parties should be happy, etc. , and that a successful marriage or anything concerning life for that matter should not overly partake of altruism. Altruism, used incorrectly is a bad approach for a human being to take. And, it makes sense when you think about it. No successful arrangement is based on the adherence to altruism alone. But, it is her views on individualism and her criticism of collectivism and socialism is where we part ways. Just the fact that the neocons and even Allan Greenspan himself admire her works is disconcerting to me. I am not a fan of the neocons and their wars and capitalism gone wild, so you should be able to figure out where I am coming from. If you do not know me by now then you never will I suppose. I have never read her two big novels, the Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and I am not planning on it. From what I have seen in her video interviews she is a very consistent and dogmatic personality. So, I think I have already been adequately exposed to her ideas and what they mean.
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Well, let's listen to some music now that we have gotten the heavy lifting out of the way as it were.
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I want to return to Sue Thompson and " Sad Movies " if I might since this really is my kind of music. I had this song, originally done in 1961 on my blog earlier, but the song was removed for some reason. Here is another rendition of it. I am only interested in the song not the video itself as you can appreciate of course.
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Just a final note here friends. And, this is a later addition to this post by the way. If you watch the video below you will come to see what I am talking about how sad songs back in the sixties were actually happy songs, and that is why I like them. Look at the content in the video below and notice how sad and cruel it actually is. Well, friends, that is how much society has changed since the sixties. It is very different and it is not happy. We have come a long way but did we have to end up like this?
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