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“Early Christians transformed the world by thinking different and living different, not by complaining about everybody else’s morals.”

—Alan Wilson

“‘You are destroying yourself,’ he cried. ‘You have the inclination to be alone and to dream and you are afraid of dreams. You want to be like others in town here. You hear them talk and you try to imitate them.’”

—Sherwood Anderson

“On earth we are wayfarers, always on the go. This means that we have to keep on moving forward. Therefore be always unhappy about what you are if you want to reach what you are not.”

—St. Augustine

“In the third month they began to pile up the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.”

—2 Chronicles 31:7 (ESV)

“There would so much less laughter in the world if evil people stopped talking.”

—MadPriest

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry…”

—Ecclesiastes 8:15

“Did they teach you how to question when you were at the school? Did the factory help you grow? were you the maker or the tool?”

—Ewan MacColl

“Happiness happens when you are not thinking about it, when you are inhabiting your body comfortably…when you feel at peace with yourself and the world. When we live overprotective, overstimulated lives we expect more all the time, we find it hard to be unself-conscious and just do what we do; we overanalyse.”

—Rowan Williams

“You can never win a war against terror as long as there are conditions in the world that make people desperate—poverty, disease, ignorance, et cetera….I think people are beginning to realize that you can’t have pockets of prosperity in one part of the world and huge deserts of poverty and deprivation and think that you can have a stable and secure world.”

—Desmond Tutu

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.”

—Edward Abbey
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Interested in chatting to pretty girl?

I keep getting this message, from different fake names and email addresses (Apparently it’s short enough, and uses general enough words that GMail’s spam filter can’t learn to recognize it consistently):

Email me back.

Hi! I am bored this evening. Interested in chatting 
to pretty girl? Email me at [censored] only. I will reply 
with my pics

A later version tries to clarify the offer:

Hi! I am bored this evening. Interested in chatting 
to pretty girl? Email me back. If you would like to see 
my pictures. Just to make it clear. I am a girl.

I didn’t doubt that “Beatrice Read” was (supposed to be) a girl, although the first message, from “Walter Simons,” explains why the clarification was needed.

It’s apparently evolved through several incarnations, which you could probably follow in great detail on news.admin.net-abuse.sightings, if it were interesting enough to be worth the effort (though it doesn’t quite reach the level of dog eating). That probably explains why it’s still eluding GMail, which, for some reason, hasn’t learned on its own to block messages which mention mailivision.info (though I just added a filter that does this on its own).

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