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Born in the summer of 1942 at 411 Van Wert Place, Parkside Homes, first television was a Raytheon, small, round screen, first telephone was a party line, number was HEmlock 8887.
Skipped Kindergarten because I had ringworm, Mom said I got it from McCook Theater seats, attended Webster Elementary School, room 101, Mrs Probst first grade teacher.
Spent the first 17 years of my life in Dayton, Parkside until I was around 12, then 62 Messina Place, McGuffey Homes and McGuffey School, Mrs. Wallace home room teacher, went through the 8th grade then moved to 1829 Grand Avenue and attended Colonel White high school for the 9th grade then quit school and basically ran away from home.
In the summer of 2004 my brain had a stroke, a aneurysm in the basilar region of my brain, here is a picture of me in the hospital :
http://www.hawleylock.com/Rod%20Hospital-Katie-skating7-2004/Picture%20009.jpg
All in all it was a good experience and since that time I have been delving into philosophy and anthropology.
I suffered no paralysis and I was in the hospital for 7 weeks. Being a species of animal adrift on a planet that's orbiting a large fireball (sun) is not my idea of a good life although I must admit I have learned a lot from being human, can't say that I want to be a human much longer.
Rod
P.S. The human counts the number of orbits they have gone around the sun then counts them to so they know how old to act. : + )
P.S.S. In early March of 1969 I met Jasmine on Haight Street in San Francisco, we have been together since and she told me back then that she wanted to have 12 children, I gave her 9. Her father is retired USPHS and when we first met he was the director of a hospital in the deep south where he and his wife live today in their eighties.
All 9 children were nursed for at least a year, some longer, 5 of the 9 were home birth with mid wife assistance. I am a business owner and partially famous from a technical book that I wrote which sold some in Japan and all over the world.
If being a human is the height of life in the universe, we are all screwed. It isn't.
If anything of intelligence would create less intelligent (or more) lifeforms and would want, expect or need to be worshiped by what it made, that being would be guilty of self worship.
All life in the universe is related and equal and because eternity is in the equation, the possibilities of life are without limit of any sort. I will be glad when I am over my human stage and can shed my flesh, never wearing it again.
I left home, failed out of 9th grade at Colonel White, didn't have any interest really. I knew how to read, write, spell and could do math and some of its complications. I was being taught to either be a replacement soldier or if 4f, a production worker at Dayton Tire and Rubber. I was fodder for the war machine, while I was growing up General/President Dwight David Eisenhower was starting wars and killing other humans over land but using Communism as an excuse to get the peoples minds accepting the war. In the name of land and the United Fruit Company as per PBS television.
Hey, I was taught that Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492, In 1492 Columbus sailed the blue, he hit a rock and split his .... in 1492.
Then from college friends Columbus was a butcher that if you didn't have the gold, well, you don't really need arms or legs, do ya?
Some planet I was to discover. Good experience for a new and fairly ignorant life form such as ours, imagine if our most difficult experience for a human life was which tie or skirt to wear, we'd be characterless beings and that isn't any bull.
I'm glad I came, can't wait to shed my flesh in am acceptable and legitimate manner when my time comes. Well I've had 4 experience with physical death and the stroke where I was incoherent in the neuro rehab for 6 weeks wasn't one of them, there has never been any pain associated with the stroke and in fact the entire ongoing experience was a great life experience, if the stroke had not happened that Saturday morning in the summer of 2004, I be missing a great life experience, to be sure.
Since December of 2004 I have not taken one pill or other medication, period. I eat healthy, real healthy.
The study of anthropology is unearthing our roots, all the way back to our reptilian, fish and amoeba brain when the earth was 1 mass of land before continental drift. I have learned much among them to accept our no longer being human as a natural, normal event and in fact if physical death did not exist, we'd be up the creek w/o the paddle. LOL
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