I guess I'm an out there thinker. I don't notice I'm out there until I start yammering on to someone about the latest idea or thought flashing through my mind. The first time I discovered that what I considered an inescapable truth of the moment was inconceivable, no, just plain whatha? to someone else was when an old friend and I were talking. We hadn't seen each other since high school and that occasion was like twenty years on. He was kind enough to say that he was sorry but he just didn't understand what the hell I was talking about. Fair enough. Most people aren't into considering the possibilities or that universal truths might only be the limiting beliefs of the moment and no more true or eternal than that. Yeah, I know, where the heck did this come from?

I'll tell you what sent me out there this morning. On my new puter, there's a gadget thingy that shows headlines. There was one from last Thursday about thirty registered charities now have a presence on Second Life, a virtual world with its own economy where you or your character called an avatar can build a house and a business, a Second Life virtually. Why would registered first life charities want to get in on this? Because there are "real" moneymaking opportunities in this virtual world. True, my survey of the site was not in depth, but I discovered enough to know that this is one creative, way out there proposition. Finally, "they" have come up with a way to make money on people's secret daydreams and desires. Naturally, the way I think I see this venture as yet another parallel reality or life, one that consciousness is actually aware it's creating. Cool.

Think I'll go create another reality with HP Support, a second life, if you will, with someone who will tell me why Windows Media Player unloads the CD/DVD driver if I select iTunes as the default to burn CDs. I'll create a fix for the damn thing.

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