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What's next for W?

I was thinking today about the two months that Bush has left in office, and wondering what he will do next. Honestly, I don't really care. He won't be president anymore, and that's good enough for me. But, what do presidents do after leaving the White House? If you think about it, they work in politics, initially under the guise of being public servants to upload the laws of our great nation, in various political offices- Governor, Senator, Representative, etc. I guess if all you're doing is working your way up the ladder, you wouldn't want to go back to being a Governor after being President. Theoretically, that should be enough though, if what you want to do is to look out for the people in your country, or in that case, state. Not that Bush would have much of a chance getting elected to anything now.

But I wonder what have other presidents done? Have any continued to seek public office? I believe Clinton became an ambassador of sorts. Is that the norm? Is it below them to seek a Congressional position after being the leader of the free world?

I might have to look into this. I think it really shows what that leader's motivations truly are to see what they choose to do after holding the highest position in our country.

Thank You

I am completely blown away by the results of yesterday's election. Putting aside party politics here, regardless of who was the better candidate, the majority of Americans voted for a black man to be president, clearly demonstrating that race simply doesn't matter to most of us anymore. And I firmly believe that the majority that did vote for McCain did so out of belief that he was the better choice, and not out of racism. Sure, there are still probably a few random, ignorant Americans for whom that was the deciding issue, but I think they are few and far between.

I have never felt like racism was an issue at all during my life. I'm not prejudiced and I don't know anyone personally who is. Of course, I haven't known many black people throughout my life either. It just hasn't been a factor in my life, and didn't see why it should be to anyone voting. The bottom line is the color of your skin has nothing to do with the kind of person you are, and anyone with any common sense at all has to know this.

While racism hasn't been an issue in my life, or those close to me, I am familiar with our nation's history, and am so proud to be an American today, to know that for most people, bigotry is demonstratively a thing of the past. To say that I'm proud to be an American today makes me so overwhelmed because the last several years, I have felt anything but proud of my country.

So thank you to Barack Obama, for having the courage and perserverance to pursue this position. You weren't my first choice for President, or even my second (for the record, neither was McCain or Hillary), but I am happy and proud that you will be our Commander in Chief.

Also, thank you to everyone who took the time to vote as well. Yesterday will be a day that goes down in history as a monumental achievement for our nation, and in my opinion, they happen much too rarely. Here's to many more ahead!

I mean, who does that?

I was meeting a date last night at a local bar, and got there early so I could have dinner first. So I sat at the bar to watch the game and eat. A bunch of guys came in, and sat next to me. The closest one, started chatting with me about beer and work and whatnot. Pretty soon we were engrossed in conversation when my date finally arrived. We stayed at the bar and had a great time talking and getting to know each other.

Well at one point, my date went to the bathroom, and the second he left, the guy on my right said to me, "Listen I can see you're probably on a date here, and I don't know how well it's going, but I'd really like to talk to you more. Can I get your number so we can hang out again?"

So I said, "I don't think so. I am on a date. Maybe I'll see you around here again."

Of course, everyone at the bar - his friends, the bartender we'd been chatting with, everyone but my date heard this, and he came back, and I was just like, "Where were we?"

I was amused of course. It's so rare that a stranger just asks me out like that, and it happens when I'm on a date with someone else.

In retrospect, I'd say that other guy had some balls to do that. I mean, who asks someone out when they're clearly on a date with someone else?

Another skeptic turned believer

From Thomas Huxley's Science and Morals:

"I understand the main tenet of Materialism to be that there is nothing in the universe but matter and force; and that all the phenomena of nature are explicable by deduction from the properties assignable to these two primitive factors. That great champion of Materialism whom Mr. Lilly appears to consider to be an authority in physical science, Dr. Büchner, embodies this article of faith on his title-page. Kraft und Stoff–force and matter–are paraded as the Alpha and Omega of existence. This I apprehend is the fundamental article of the faith materialistic; and whosoever does not hold it is condemned by the more zealous of the persuasion (as I have some reason to know) to the Inferno appointed for fools or hypocrites. But all this I heartily disbelieve; and at the risk of being charged with [130] wearisome repetition of an old story, I will briefly give my reasons for persisting in my infidelity. In the first place, as I have already hinted, it seems to me pretty plain that there is a third thing in the universe, to wit, consciousness, which, in the hardness of my heart or head, I cannot see to be matter, or force, or any conceivable modification of either, however intimately the manifestations of the phenomena of consciousness may be connected with the phenomena known as matter and force. In the second place, the arguments used by Descartes and Berkeley to show that our certain knowledge does not extend beyond our states of consciousness, appear to me to be as irrefragable now as they did when I first became acquainted with them some half-century ago. All the materialistic writers I know of who have tried to bite that file have simply broken their teeth. But, if this is true, our one certainty is the existence of the mental world, and that of Kraft und Stoff falls into the rank of, at best, a highly probable hypothesis...

...The student of nature, who starts from the axiom of the universality of the law of causation, cannot refuse to admit an eternal existence; if he admits the conservation of energy, he cannot deny the possibility of an eternal energy; if he admits the existence of immaterial phenomena in the form of consciousness, he must admit the possibility, at any rate, of an eternal series of such phenomena; and, if his studies have not been barren of the best fruit of the investigation of nature, he will have enough sense to see that when Spinoza says, "Per Deum intelligo ens absolute infinitum, hoc est substantiam constantem infinitis attributis," the God so conceived is one that only a very great fool would deny, even in his heart. Physical science is as little Atheistic as it is Materialistic."

A skeptic turned believer

Probably the most fundamental question in my life is, and has always been, what is it all about?

Raised "Christian", not of a specific denomination but under the belief that there is one God and that he sent his only son to die for our sins, I became "Atheist" in my teen years - Atheist in title only as I couldn't believe there could be a God who was so cruel as to allow me to continue to live my miserable life but still praying to that God, just in case - and admitting, after becoming a mother, that there had to be something more out there. I have only in the past two or three years, found faith that I can identify with. Still, not with any specific religion, but more in line with Eastern thoughts and practices and thus identifying myself as "Buddhish", if it must be labeled.

I believe in life after death. I believe that we have "souls". Why? Because we are conscious. Consciousness is probably the most fascinating aspect of life to me. Where does it come from? How are we aware? Where does it go after death? In death, does consciousness cease, or is it just moving from our physical bodies to somewhere else? A friend of mine once said that he believes consciousness continues for the sole reason that he can't comprehend it not being anymore. To me, that's as easy an excuse as saying that consciousness ceases because you can't conceive of it continuing without the body. Easy excuses don't work for me. If they did, I'd probably still consider myself "Christian", because it's easier to believe what your parents tell you to, than to make up your own mind about it.

I believe in reincarnation. It actually took me a long time to come to that belief, considering that I desperately wanted to believe in reincarnation as a teenager, but could find no basis for that. So what basis do I have now? The easiest explanation is that I agree with the things that make the most sense to me, but the truth is I need to have some kind of proof. I'm not talking about cold, hard scientific facts, because I don't think we are capable of finding 100% scientific proof of an afterlife, but the kind of proof where my experiences, intuition, and certain scientific studies lend credence to the belief.

What studies am I referring to? I think the most illuminating insight we have into the afterlife comes from those who have approached the brink of death, and lived to tell about it. There are numerous accounts of near death experiences- people who have clinically died, whose brains ceased to function, but came back to report experiencing consciousness during that period, and with fascinating descriptions of being out of their bodies, life reviews and analysis, and of deciding what to do next.

But even that doesn't lend enough to the idea of having multiple lives in various physical bodies. Furthering the prospect of reincarnation are the accounts of people who somehow manage to remember past lives, and are able to correlate their knowledge with the written history of those lives, and even by the surviving members of those families.

I've learned recently to give credence to my intuition, which is a very hard thing to do for someone who grew up believing that logic and scientific method should rule belief. But in learning to embrace my intuition, I have found amazing personal proof of how the soul travels past the physical world. While I can't prove anything to anyone else, I know the truth for myself, at least the small amount of truth that doesn't even compare with everything there is to know about the unknown.

Hello all!

Let's see. I'm a few years late to starting a personal blog, although I had been using my Myspace profile as a blog for a couple of years. I haven't been on Myspace much lately, and although I can't really figure out why, haven't been interested in using Myspace anymore. So I decided to start an official blog here.

I'm not sure how often I'll be posting. Doubtful that it actually will be a "daily dose of Sue", but I had to call it something, right?

Here's what you can expect from me: the occasional random observation about the world around me, lots of posts about things in my life that excite me, and even the sporadic glimpse into my own theology and philosophy.

Thanks for taking the time to humor me as I indulge in my ego's need to share myself with others.