Letters to the Editor
gclark65
Published Letters: 5 Editor's Choice: 1
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Legal Advice
[Read the article: My wife left me for a woman -- could I please have my divorce now?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I used Nolo Press's hourly attorney advice. It was the best $250 I EVER spent when I was going through my divorce. My ex told me she was going to get the moon, and take me to the cleaners. In essence, she eventually got only half (duh). The money, and the knowledge I gained gave me peace of mind and a position of power. Access to an attorney doesn't have to cost a mint.
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Been there, done that, got the t-shirt
[Read the article: Must I always be haunted by the loss of my one true love?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I looked up and eventually married a woman I walked away from 17 years previously. Hooking up with her again had become an obsession with me. It was intense, glorious and horrible. We were both incredibly in love... with the people we were 17 years ago. It was as sweet and heady as it was as an adolescent. I was stunned and infatuated all over again. I felt the pain of the lost years and all the water under the bridge.
All that water, in essence, ended up being the stake through the heart of our relationship. We weren't those people in who were in love all those years ago. We couldn't be. Our separate paths taught us significantly different life lessons. She likes country music (which gives me hives) and I like AC/DC and Manhattan Transfer, for heaven's sake. A trivial example, I know, however it illustrates my point. We became completely different people.
The writer of this letter is in love with the woman he knew 20 years ago. In essence, that woman is dead. She doesn't exist anymore. Efforts to resurrect that long-dead memory will yield a rotting corpse that was better visited as a tombstone in the graveyard of his mind.
Let it go and get some therapy. Or, you may need to do what I did and experience the exquisite pain of the realization and the death of that relationship all over again, if you cannot reconcile the years.
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Can you say felony influence peddling? I knew ya could....
[Read the article: Quote of the Day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I think Mr. Delay's time will be probably better spent preparing for his defense. Looking up the definition of "felony" and the law would have served the American people better than the Napoleon complex and fascist state he was nursing as Whip.
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A little sarcasm, anyone???
[Read the article: The big secret about secret societies]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Let's say, just for argument, that all religions are correct... or at least portions of them are correct. The absolute "truth" would be what is common to all of these doctrines. Having done some of the same reading that Mark Booth has done, it's incredibly difficult to collate different pieces of data in all the different theologies.
I've read books that attempt to consolidate beliefs of just a small portion of doctrines (such as the Western Mystery schools... or perhaps Eastern religions... or all of Christianity). They tend to be extremely dry and laborious to read. In other words, it's difficult to piece it all together in anything coherent. Religions do it through allegory. Why don't we critique Jesus's fish gig or Moses' combing back the Red Sea?
Often a reader will find a book that completes a piece of their personal belief puzzle. Sometimes there isn't intellectual backing for an epiphany... you know because you know.
There are truths in Mark Booth's book, I'm sure. It's up to the reader to determine for themselves what they believe or not believe. Calling the this man's work drivel, is, in my opinion, irresponsible. How about asking someone with a religious background to review the book? I'd like to hear how Mark Booth got things right, instead of lambasting the man for attempting a nearly impossible task. I'd also like to see Ms. Miller do a piece on how all religions are correct; maybe she'd have a better appreciation for the magnitude of the undertaking. Peace.
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What really drives oil prices???
[Read the article: OPEC changes the oil equation]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Explain how oil speculation causes oil prices to soar, and what Congress could do to clamp down on it.