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"He dropped out of college in the late 1970s and started trying to find himself. Unfortunately, his self was nowhere to be found."

From a pice about Terry Nichols

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bram.livejournal.com

Was he the one with the mail-order bride? Knew where to find her, he did.

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solri.livejournal.com

Yep, that's the one. The article posits a Philipino connection with an Al Quaida operative, but I have no idea if that's true.

Back when I was a musician of sorts, we had a song called "Indonesian Girl" about the trade in brides (the chorus was "Daddy's going to buy me an Indonesian girl").

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oblomova.livejournal.com

From Jane Wagner's The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe, brilliantly performed in the mid-'80s by her girlfriend, Lily Tomlin -- the character is the self-improvement junkie, Chrissy:

"All my life I've always wanted to be somebody. But I see now that I should have been more specific."

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solri.livejournal.com

Nice!

The irony is that while I enjoy taking the piss out of the whole humanistic psychology, self-improvement, aquarian, personal communication etc. phenomenon, I feel sympathy with its goals. As Ben Elton put it, it's a shame that the people who believe in the right things are such wankers.

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oblomova.livejournal.com

I feel the same as Elton. There's nothing wrong with self-improvement and self-awareness and all those lovely things. I just wish people could keep it to, um, themselves, a bit more.

Though I suppose it's better than hearing someone trying to sell me on the transformative powers of accepting Jesus into my heart, or someone going on about the unique idiosyncratic genius of Aynd Rand.