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Arrival

9:23am EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

Flawless arrival at 7:45am, though scheduled for 7:20. Whiz through immigration and customs and took a whiz after finding a hostel on the free VOIP phonebank listed in Glebe, which is the city where I'm supposed to meet David in a couple days.

Bondi Junction

9:25am EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

$5 bus to Bondi Junction now, and then another bus to Bondi Point (though I figure at a place called Junction, which is the final stop for this bus, I can find a place to call Ian, and maybe buy the couple of items on my list of items to buy:

list of items to buy

1. contact juice

2. T-shirts

3. torch (*)

4. socks

5. Crocs (**)

(*) they mean flashlight.

(**) not necessarily this brand, but it rhymes. (also not necessarily necessary)

10:49am EST

Aight. In Bondi Junction, I got some contact solution at a pharmacy and asked the cashier wehre to get some t-shirts. (Kmart) Got socks (and underwear), but no shirts yet.

11:03am EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

Just got a picture of Uncle Cow and Jeanie in Eastgate, Bondi, Sydney!

Day with Ian

5:15pm EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

Have been walking around with Uncle Ian today, who showed me to the least expensive hotel in Sydney, got a better deal than advertised, bought me lunch in a Chinese food court, showed me great place to buy socks and t-shirts, bought me AUD$0.30 ice cream, showed me great internet cafe ($10 for 7 hours), and tried to help me get some Crocs.

Countlessly thankful for him guiding me around the area.

Was actually able to help him with a computer question he had about a Japanese website.

7:54pm EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

Ah. Just had a nice nap.

Email to Jesse

This is slightly confusing with no context, but I want to put my thoughts online. Eventually I'd like to put it in my wiki, but as mentioned, I have no internet access at the moment.

    I am glad we found this point of difference.


I'm glad *you* found it!  How did you find it?

I think this discussion will quickly get to unweildy for email, but I'm going to try this reply and
see what comes out.
 

    I would say that is, by definition for love, impossible.
    I would also say that is morally impossible.


huh?
 

    Simply that any word is going to have an opposite, and a point in which is cannot include other
    definitions.


what?  I think you mistyped something in that sentence.

    Also "naughty" and "evil" are quite far from each other.


I agree with this.  For me, naughty is testing boundaries, and evil actions are designed to harm
others.
 

    To me, a grandmother who loves a grandchild who want to kill her other grandchildren is not in
    her right mind. If she includes an evil grandchild into the group,


I didn't want to kill any of my cousins, but I definitely harmed my brother.  I hit him while
enraged on more than one occasion.  ((It was only when I thought I may have permanently hurt him
that I realized instantly that I would never hit him again.  I was so happy when he got up and
started yelling and wailing on me.))

But sorry, that's a sidenote in that it doesn't match your scenario.  I believe the grandmother
will/should/must love even the child who wants to kill his/her cousins/siblings.  If the grandmother
were to withdraw her love, the child would only seek more revenge against this further pain of not
being loved.

    she is not protecting the others and thus not loving the others. Another morally impossible
    situation.


Ah.  By my definition, love doesn't always include protection.  I might let someone make a mistake
to learn from it.
 

    I think you may be right that love allows freedom to man, but only if man is loving.


I agree love allows freedom to man.  I say it allows freedom whether or not man is loving.
 

    And a man can only be loving if he fears love. If he does not fear love he has no reason to do it.


Please tell me about your definition of fear.
 

    My point is that fear and respect is one in the same.


I see fear and respect as different. 

I respect your opinion, and I respect people who lead thoughtful lives.  I don't fear you, your
opinion, or thoughtful people.

I respect W, Cheney, and crew for their ability to drive the US and the world where they want to go.
I fear the outcome to which I see their actions headed.

I fear a possible moment on my deathbed, looking back on my life and thinking, "I made more mistakes
than successes."  (That's one reason I try to live to high standards of my own making.)

I can only imagine your response, "yes, but Rob 'of your own making' is the problem there.  You need
to live to the high standards of God's making."

And I respond to that (imagined response), "I don't fear God."

My basic reason stems from the phrase "God is love," and knowing by *my* definition of love, I have
no reason to fear love, nor God.

- -

So we come back to the definition of love.  My definition of love as a verb basically mirrors the
one by M Scott Peck.  Something like, "love is thoughtful effort put forth to enhance our own or
another's spiritual well being."

Love as a noun is more difficult to define, especially if I define love = God, for I've already said
that God is infinitely more unknowable than we can pretend to imagine.  I wrote a little bit about
this under my definition of EPP, the Ever Present Present in, I think, the Religion namespace of my
wiki.  (I'm not online now, and won't try to remember to find it before sending this, so if I don't
send a link, search under the Religion namespace of my wiki at http://robnugen.com/wiki (click
search, then select Religion and R.O.B.O.T. checkboxes and search for EPP))

I see love as an opposite of fear.  (not necessarily "the opposite," just "an opposite" or maybe
"diametrically opposed to")

-----

Thanks for your thoughts!

Take your time in replying; I won't have internet access for the next 9 days.

    Peace, Love, Respect, and no Fear
    - Rob!

Email to Paige

Snippets from my email to Paige

Paige!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm not trying to win the slow email contest, but maybe I have!

Right now (24 March 2009) I'm waiting for my flight; headed to OZ for 10 days, 8 of which will be
spent in an intense emotional cleansing process called ISIS...  *maybe**** I told you about it, but
not sure!  A friend of mine did the same course and came back with eyes shining.  nice...

- - -

Okay, and now (25 March 2009) I'm in a hostel in Sydney, chillin' in Sydney for two days, trying to
catch up with email before my 8 days without internet access..

Life is exciting as always... I've loved seeing your updates via Facebook / Twitter(?)  Facebook,
right?  yeah, anyway, via the internet I've enjoyed little glimpses of your life scubadiving with
wildlife and your wild life on shore as well.

Ah, so my life includes a more and more energized job search, as I haven't had much income since
$8000 for clinical drug trial in February.  Have done an art show, and taking shiatsu (acupressure)
lessons, and doing what *I* want to do instead of chasing money.

This 8-day retreat will hopefully reveal some insights in myself so I can do what I love *and* make
a living!

Spent today

10:57pm EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

In Australian Dollars:

• $15 for contact solution

• $23 for socks (6 pair) and underwears (3 pair)

• $31.95 for helmet light for camping

• $10 for 3 white t-shirts and bar of soap

Thanks to Ian for buying me lunch and ice cream!

Things to do online

10:49pm EST Wednesday 25 March 2009 (day 14245)

Aight; I've just written 11 messages which are in my Gmail Outbox (thanks to Gmail's offline access via Gears), and am going to the internet to send them all soon.

couple other things to do while online:

1. * Add Nim to my Rob Updates list

2. * get a detailed map of where to meet David.

3. * make sure I'm to meet him on the 27th, not the 26th

4. * download podcasts of Eckhart Tolle

5. X (see if I can borrow a USB cable and) upload U-Cow pic to his site