being vs. becoming/ Nov 21 2010 vs. Nov 20, 2011
Below is what we wrote one year ago today. Has anything in our lives changed in one year? Here's a reprint of last years stories with a few edits.
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edward w pritchard
Sunday, November 21, 2010
A What if: If Alexander the Great receives a restraining order
fiction
edward w pritchard
The most successful human to date was the Macedonian General Alexander the Great. However Alexander by all accounts took reckless chances in battle, wore a plumed colored hat to flaunt military convention, and charged directly at his enemy the King of Kings and commander in chief Darius, of Persia.
What if Alexander the Great had been deemed too short, too gay, and too suicidal to lead the troops to India? What if a restraining order was issued to keep Alexander from leading the Macedonians and what if another Gereral had done so for Macedonia and lost to the Persians?
In that case Darius the Great of Persia, winning General, would have been deemed the greatest human and their God, Ahura Mazdah, would have been proclaimed dead [ by Nietzsche] in the last century.
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second story written one year ago [ we were watching football today, today's consensus subject of discussion being, again, there's too much passing in Pro football]
There's too much passing in professional football/ Nov 21, 2010
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edward w pritchard
There's too much passing in professional football. Too much passing in football is caused by the desire by everyone for instant gratification of all their needs. Instant gratification causes the slow demise of the school systems which keeps the young from being properly educated. Lack of education is causing politicians to be selfish and not altruistic and greedy and dishonest. Poor performance by politicians screws up the economy. A screwed up economy makes people cash poor and poor people can't afford tickets to professional football games.
In time the economic system in America is self correcting. Until then maybe women quarterbacks in Professional football; it's indisputable that women can't throw a football as far as men; all other things being equal.
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