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Dec. 21st, 2009 12:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
This would have been my father's 76th. We never gave him enough presents. It got to the point where we tried to institute a compensatory summer half-birthday called Dad's Day (he dismissed Father's Day as Hallmark commercialism) but he was uncooperative.
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Date: 2009-12-21 06:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 09:53 pm (UTC)If you're saying you believe in astrology I'm going to send you deprogramming pamphlets. Though
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 11:12 pm (UTC)So in short: no, i dont believe in astrology.
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Date: 2009-12-22 06:53 pm (UTC)Which may be fine, but there must be more honest ways to handle that, in life. Because an awful lot of people don't see it that way.
jones_casey clearly believes in something.
Date: 2009-12-22 10:08 am (UTC)and similarly, andalus' commentary is perfect.
no, i don't believe that roughly four hundred million people born in the same stretch of days are identical.
i do believe that the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible and that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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Date: 2009-12-23 01:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 07:05 pm (UTC)Some dads seem to get into that - not taking presents - which is why Jay's taking a Snuggie for the team has been semi-presently on my mind since it was confessed.
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Date: 2009-12-21 09:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-21 09:55 pm (UTC)And about the above... I'm not wired for belief, but symbols are powerful. What the readers say about Capricorns always seems to fit without any shoehorning.
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Date: 2009-12-21 10:39 pm (UTC)