Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 24, 2006
People take their seats. It’s good vs. evil, evil vs. good, or evil vs. evil–depending on your position. As with any good matchup, everyone has an opinion. That’s what it is so exciting about life, right? To be visible, to be seen, to be acknowledged–and so we take a position and express it. We may not do it with words, yet we do it. We wear the colors of the team we favor, or at least we sit in their section… if nothing else, we have our critique of the other side, our inner Charles Barkley… or of the game itself…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 20, 2006
I just recently got the following email from an ally I call, Ronin, after the masterless samurai of feudal Japan. The ronin were those who’d been trained in the Samurai warrior life of honor, self-mastery, fearlessness, etc. as loyal protectors and servants to a master, and were then set free. Ronin literally means…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 19, 2006
Who doesn’t understand the principle that you don’t negotiate with terrorists? By negotiating, you validate and encourage more terrorist action. That’s a pretty sound principle.
So, apparently George Bush is not negotiating with or even talking to the Iranian “regime,” or President Ahmadinejad, as the Iranians “sponsor terrorism” and are part of the “Axis of Evil.”…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 19, 2006
Imagine, if all the American colonialists could have watched Patrick Henry deliver his famous speech via web cam: “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!”
Our red coated friends from across the pond…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 17, 2006
Leave it to a lawyer! Oh my… I know that’s stereotypical. And to be fair, in principal, being a lawyer is one of the most noble professions there is. Yet, in our positionary world, many if not most lawyers, especially trial lawyers, simply waste their times creating and defending positions–at everyone’s expense…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 17, 2006
I shared my feelings in an email to several of our lists yesterday. Funny, the only negative responses I got were from men. This one was typical:
“Yes! You are a Sap!! Now don’t send me your crying a** s**t anymore!!!” (asterisks added)
Of course, we…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 13, 2006
“Not I,” cries the emerging visionary, as he dives off the edge of the bridge.
For some, life is an escape from the big questions. Perhaps even for most, to seriously question one’s fundamental conclusions about one’s self and the world is akin to bungee jumping from a tall bridge with an untested cord. For these people, jumping up and down on solid ground with a bungee cord attached to their feet, or watching someone else bungee jump, is about as close as they’ll ever get…
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Posted by Michael Skye on Sep 8, 2006
Yes, we’re building a robust on-line member area for visionaries… and, yes, it’s free. However, our home away from home is a place in cyberspace called… shhhhh….
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