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I wonder if anyone will follow me? This blogging out into the ether is fun and i like posting aimlessly but it would be nice to talk with people who don't know me out there and don't have opinions about what I should or shouldn't say. Is anyone out there?

Any one read old Piers Anthony? Or Phillip Yancy?

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I love the babble of blogging and saying whatever comes to mind.

In Thailand, I stayed in a lot because jet lag was cruel. I think next time; I will take a friend and allow way more time. It’s amazing that I’m saying next time, because until then, I said I hate traveling. And now I don’t. I hate the hurry up and wait. I hate leaving my dogs. I hate not having the money to do what I want.

But I do like seeing and experiencing different things.  I like seeing what’s around the corner and getting ideas about it. The whole scientific theory that I’ve talked about explodes in my mind when I think about that.

1.       Look at the culture, the people, the land, the politics, the kids, the clothes, the weather, whatever

2.       Think about why they are that way

3.       Test  your idea about why they are that way if you can

4.       Tell people about the test and what happened

I might be the only one who would do that or I might not.  Or my ideas that I get would probably be wildly different than others. But who cares. That’s why I’m me.

I was watching just a second of a history of America on TV the other night. It talked about Lincoln having been fascinated with steam boats and having moved mercantile on flat boats along the rivers to main thoroughfares.  It was mostly young white men who would pole the flat boats to the merchants and then break up the flat boats to sell for lumber once the cargo was sold off of them. Then they would hike back home, sometimes 800 miles.  Anyway, I made the connection because I was thinking about how people see things and how the person telling the story was African American. I wondered how that affected his point of view of view or his perspective on Lincoln.   My perspective must affect my opinion on Thailand and my theories that arise from thinking about the scientific perspective. How could it not?

I wonder if we ever get a true objective telling of what has happened in history- 500 years ago or five minutes ago.  I doubt it.  When you get to step 2 of the scientific theory – thinking about why something happens – it’s colored by your experience and your amygdala. Even twins who have almost the same experiences don’t have quite the same experiences.  

Would someone else who went to Thailand alone – another single American white female who had never traveled internationally before and has the same physical and spiritual background I have had the same experience or done the same things? Would she have slept as much? Or would she have watched as much? Or would she have talked more? Seen more and worked less?

Would she have spent more money or less money? Would she have seen the Golden Palace or been as fascinated with the sidewalk altars?