Now there's some good philosophy.

[jedusor]

"Practically speaking, if timesaving devices really saved time, there would be more time available to us now than ever before in history. But, strangely enough, we seem to have even less time than even a few years ago. It's really great fun to go someplace where there are no timesaving devices because, when you do, you find that you have lots of time. Elsewhere, you're too busy working to pay for machines to save you time so you won't have to work so hard.

The main problem with this great obsession for Saving Time is very simple: you can't save time. You can only spend it. But you can spend it wisely or foolishly. The [modern person] has practically no time at all, because he's too busy wasting it by trying to save it. And by trying to save every bit of it, he ends up wasting the whole thing."

-The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

I must say, Taoism as presented by this book seems extraordinarily appealing to me. Anyone know anything about it? draughanten, didn't you say you had a Taoist friend?

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[sittingwalnut.livejournal.com]

I read a little of that book once. It was a very long time ago though. I enjoyed it before it got lost in the house somewhere.

[jedusor.livejournal.com]

I still have my dad's copy in my backpack, I think. Oops.