[at-l] Something to think about this holiday season.

["Beau Bushor" <mail2beau@adelphia.net>]

Something to think about this coming holiday season and to change in the new
millenium.
> The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but
> shorter tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.
>
> We spend more, but have less; we buy more, but enjoy it less.
>
> We have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, but less
> time; we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less
> judgment; more experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less
      wellness.
>
> We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
> drive too fast, get too angry too quickly, stay up too late, get up too
> tired, read too seldom, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
>
> We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
>
> We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
>
> We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to
> life, not life to years."
>
> "We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing

      the > street to meet the new neighbor.
>
> We've conquered outer space, but not inner space.
>
> We've done larger things, but not better things.
>
> We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.
>
> We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
>
> We write more, but learn less.
>
> We plan more, but accomplish less.
>
> We've learned to rush, but not to wait.
>
> We build more computers to hold more information to produce more copies
> than ever, but have less communication."
>
> "These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, and short
> character; steep profits, and shallow relationships.
>
> These are the times of more food, but less nutrition.
>
> These are days of two incomes, but more divorce; of fancier houses, but
> broken homes.
>
> These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throw-away morality,
> one-night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from
> cheer to quiet, to kill."
>
> "It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the
> stockroom; a time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time
> when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete."
>
> George Carlin


Happy Thanksgiving,

Beau Bushor N1MJD
    "Bleeder Guy"

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