"The Now"

"It starts now, it didn't begin in the past, there was no past. See, if the univerese began in the past, when that happened it was the now, it's still the now. And the universe is still begining now and it's trailing of like a wake of a ship from now, and the wake of the ship fades out, so does the past. You can look back there to explain things but the explanation dissapears, you will never find it there, things are not explaind by the past, they are explaind what happenes now. The Now creates the past. It begins here. Thats the birth of responibility." - Alan Watts

Meeting people is easy

"Those who have never tried electronic communication may not be aware of what a "social skill" really is. One social skill that must be learned, is that other people have points of view that are not only different, but *threatening*, to your own. In turn, your opinions may be threatening to others. There is nothing wrong with this. Your beliefs need not be hidden behind a facade, as happens with face-to-face conversation. Not everybody in the world is a bosom buddy, but you can still have a meaningful conversation with them. The person who cannot do this lacks in social skills."
-- Nick Szabo