Another way to write the title of this post would be: thoughts that get you into a continuous loop. And, there aren’t many of those types of thoughts. At least not for me.
Some people think the question, “Which came first - the chicken or the egg?” is a thing with no end (TWNE). But, I don’t get caught up in that one. To me, it’s true that we don’t know the definitive answer to that question, but I think everyone agrees that there is an answer. It had to be either one or the other. I might guess that creationists are on the side of the chicken and evolutionists lean toward the egg, but I don’t really want to get in the middle of that discussion.
For one woman in 1994, this question was a TWNE: “If you could live forever, would you and why?” Sound familiar? That was asked of Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss America Contest. Amazingly enough, lots of folks must have agreed with her - about the question being a TWNE. She was chosen as Miss America 1995. Here’s her answer:
“I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever,”
Note the comma after that last “forever”. I’m not sure that she wouldn’t still be stating and restating that TWNE if the MC hadn’t needed to give some of the other contestants a chance to nail their questions.
Here’s my TWNE: What holds up the planets? I don’t see this as a religious issue — however you want to think the planets got here, how do you think the whole place stays together?
Here’s the loop I get into. So, the planets are just out in space. But, the centrifugal force of us going around the sun creates a gravitational pull that keeps all the planets in place. Although I don’t see how. It seems to me that the level of gravity that would be required to keep the Earth in place should be enough of a pull so that if you dropped something really light - like a Kleenex, it should fall up, not down.
So, then what holds the Sun and stuff in place? Well, we’re in the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a “large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from similar systems by vast regions of space”. So, now we’ve got regions of space which certainly aren’t solid, and which have black holes in them which suck in anything in their path. Except for the galaxies and planets. For some reason. And whatever does get “sucked in” disappears and goes. . . where??
And, here’s the kicker. If you could sit high above all this stuff and see as far as there are galaxies, what would you see at the “horizon”? Is there a horizon? Are there an infinite number of galaxies and regions of space? This is where I get a brain freeze, and it’s not from chugging a frozen Margarita.
So, I finally give up trying to get my head around it and decide that we just may be encased in an amulet hanging around a cat’s neck. . .










That same WSJ article announced a couple of things Freddie and Fannie are finally starting to do to make the short sale process more reasonable. Within the next few months, Fannie Mae says it will try to streamline the short sale process by giving brokers an up front indication of the minimum offer that would be acceptable in a short sale.
The Advisory Group’s report states that there isn’t good, trustworthy real estate information that can be easily accessed. I don’t think anyone can argue with that. The group also said that “Without convenient, immediate access to information to analyze/interpret for their clients and customers, REALTORS® will no longer be at the center of real estate transactions.” I don’t really agree with that conclusion.
I’m writing this late on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. And, you know what day that is, right? Due to some fiddling around with a new CPA, tax time got a tad bit delayed this year, and I ended up spending a lot more time today worrying about it than I wanted. And, the bottom line numbers were not as advantageous as I’d hoped.
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