OceansOfThought @ April 16, 2008 # 4 Comments
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man’s initiative and independence. -Abraham Lincoln Back, not so long ago, there was a time when a man did a crime, he did his time, and went on with life. What he did, depending on the severity, was a mistake which he paid for, and […]
OceansOfThought @ April 15, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Next Big Thing in Disruptive Technology aka Fighting the Curse of Babel
“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time.” -Abraham Lincoln We’ve decided to try a different tac, and to do one of […]
OceansOfThought @ April 14, 2008 # One Comment
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion.” -Abraham Lincoln The Dark Ages(476 -1000AD), which I like to say was 500 years of moving backwards, was a terrible time in our history, that saved us from the […]
OceansOfThought @ April 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On Celebritys and Your Vote
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them. Abraham Lincoln. So there was this quote by Bono of U2. which i shall paraphrase “Sure, rock stars can’t change anything, but their audience is the one that can, because they elect the politicians that can.” That is a profound statement, to […]
OceansOfThought @ April 10, 2008 # One Comment
There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, “Truth is the daughter of Time.” –Abraham Lincoln Symbols are our life. The cross, battle fields, flames, religious figures. All carry meanings and in some places, treating them incorrectly can get you killed, if not worse, just wishing to die. One […]
OceansOfThought @ April 9, 2008 # Comments Off on On Overcomming the Reptilian Brain
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln While reading the economist i ran across an article in which the reporter pointed out that how the differences in countries defined how he felt about a particular incident. In this case, it was an Ism. He arrived at […]
OceansOfThought @ April 8, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Bloodless Revolution of China
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” Abraham Lincoln Rare is the revolution that is bloodless. They are messy, messy things where people get killed and those advocating revolution should realize without the honor of the old days (barely honorable old days). Conversely, I don’t always agree that every 2 […]
OceansOfThought @ April 7, 2008 # One Comment
The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. – Abraham Lincoln The Olympic torch was extinguished three times on it’s procession in Paris.(april 6-7) This does not bode well for the games. It was extinguished willingly so it could pass on it’s own […]
OceansOfThought @ April 4, 2008 # 2 Comments
I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends. -Abraham Lincoln We shall now have a therapy session with the UN (United Nations), and it’s younger cousin NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organizations) and EU (European Union.) These are three institutions, made under the relatively same rules, drifting away from their original purpose, hamstrung by […]
OceansOfThought @ April 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. -Abraham Lincoln. There is a moment in all our lives when we realized we’ve gone two far. The words are out, the email is sent, the dial tone hums in the air; the breathless gasp which lies in the air around […]