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Does O'Neal have to be making the three pointers? Novella is the one true one, but you're asking a lot if you want him making them.

Maybe "Good luck with the giant mutant rabbits." :D Or maybe "Sometimes the answers that make the most sense are the hardest to accept." Maybe I should just do everybody a favor and go without one.

There are a lot of great ways to go. I would want mine to be a celebration. I would want a black gospel funeral with a little less wailing and crying. I want an instrumental version of "I'll Fly Away" with lots of organ and bass; you can hear a pretty good version on the album The Word by The...

I'm not sure how rash my decisions are, but the tortured overanalysis is me on the button. I like fruits and veggies; I just don't eat them enough. I'm trying to understand how someone could put this into a program. I mean, it's right for the most part, and it's based on my friggin choice of...

novella, I think this idea is rooted in the fact that we have developed two parts of our brain. We have a rational thought center, and we the part of our brain that will supply primal urges, flight or fight type responses. If you get slapped, you don't think, "I'm pissed." However, you're...

I saw Ray last night. For me, it exceeded the expectations set by the hype. Anyone else see it or have anything to say about it? I've known Jamie Foxx was incredibly talented, and he was very impressive. The movie showed how the different facets of Ray's life, music, women, family, and...

Preach on.

Good call on the split. I was just about to ask you if you wanted to do this. Great minds think alike. I picked up Freedom from the Known last night. It took a dedicated search. Some of Krishnamurti's books were shelved in the Hindu section at Borders while some were in the Buddhist...

Thanks. You really made my day. The feeling is mutual. I appreciate the time and thought that you put into your posts. You have a great vocabulary. That was pretty intimidating when I first got here. :) Lots of time has been spent on the posts in this thread, and it hasn't gone...

Of course. I wanted to post more earlier, but I was on the way out the door. Novella, your sunglasses personality test results for me was dead on. I live in my head. Sometimes I may seem inconsiderate, but I'm not. It's just sometimes I'm up there and fail to recognize things that should...

That's about right. I drive a 2003 Pewter Gold Chevy Trailblazer.

I believe everyone has their own way. It makes sense that some people are content with whatever life hands them while others have a yearning inside them for push the limits of what they understand, of what they've known. Neither group is superior or inferior. Everyone seeks some form of...

This morning in the shower, I realized other ways that I'm similar to Smithy. I lost an older sibling, too. His sibling wandered off, but she was lost to him regardless. On top of that, while Smithy's sister suffered from mental disease, my sibling was an alcoholic, which is also a disease...

Bobby and Irene, there's lots of validity for both your ideas. You do need some level of discomfort in your life for whatever reason (mine was internal), but you also need the luxuries of time, experience, and security to read, reflect and think. Irene, you really nailed it on the head for...

This was something I liked about the story; it was realistic. In the movies, people almost always have epiphanies at a climax in the story. Most people's lives don't have a climax. I agree with you about the importance of him being able to tell Norma that he loved her. I think we saw that...

Excuse me for butting in, but I'm going to have to pick up Krishnamurti's book Freedom from the Known this weekend. I've been keeping up with your conversation but have had nothing to add until now. I read the first chapter at Amazon, and Krishnamurti expresses some of the same thoughts that...

Ell, don't be sorry for the ramble. If anything, give us more next time. Here, I'll ramble some if it'll make you more comfortable. Smithy was already in decline when Bethany went missing. He was already complaining about not having anyone to socialize with in East Providence. He says...

I loved the characters. Once I was done with the book, I missed Smithy and Norma. It really felt like the book ended too early. I want to see what happens next. I guess that's a testament to his writing. I've started to write a post three times now, and I still can't find the words to...

REBT is exactly what is sounds like. You realize that you have a problem, and you rely on the rational part of your brain to overcome the irrational. For me, I judge my stress level. When I'm stressin', I have to start looking for what's wrong with the way I'm looking at things. If you have...

Night by Elie Wiesel This story of a holocaust survivor is so incredible that I have a tough time believing all this actually happened to someone, but it did. That's why I suggest this book. The book takes you with the author from the moving of the Jews into ghettos, to being installed into...