written by Drew | 2009.364 Thu 31 Dec
Well folks, in a few hours we will be leaving behind the mayhem of 2009, and embarking on the exciting yet uncertain adventure in 2010. Like 1990 before it, it marks the beginning of a new decade, which makes things even more uncertain. (I just hope to God that they don’t give this decade an equally shit name as “the noughties”.)
For me, as you’ve probably read in my posts, 2009 was a very telling year.
written by Drew | 2009.308 Thu 05 Nov
In The Kite Runner, one of the characters near the beginning of the film states:
The greatest sin is theft and all the sins are variations of it.
I believe this to be true. The very definition of stealing is to deprive someone of having a particular thing, whether it’s tangible or intangible. And no matter which way you cut it, theft is theft (as many people often like to recite, usually sitting on a high horse.)
I even got to thinking at one point: if you look at the Ten Commandments (whether or not you believe in Christianity), most of them are related to some form of theft.
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