OceansOfThought @ May 30, 2008 # One Comment
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -Abraham Lincoln. We here, on this planet, are really just friendly strangers. We exist in places: planes, elevators, and bars,- just to name a few- disembodied halves. In these places where we gather, lives are passed […]
OceansOfThought @ May 29, 2008 # 3 Comments
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.– Abraham Lincoln I’ve always asked a question to myself; who was the second person to try blowfish? I mean, after the first person fell dead convulsing, did the other person […]
OceansOfThought @ May 28, 2008 # Comments Off on On Fees, Fines, Vices and Tax
“The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government….” – Abraham Lincoln One of the problems with resolving crime and other problems is that crime pays; it pays the governments that try to control it, it pays the states and communities really really […]
OceansOfThought @ May 27, 2008 # One Comment
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.- Abraham Lincoln In life as in business, no matter what you tell someone, they won’t listen. In the end they have to come to their own realization. But what is that realization and where does it lie? In the physiological […]
OceansOfThought @ May 23, 2008 # One Comment
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them? -Abraham Lincoln Recently, there as been much made about speaking with one’s enemies. President [of the US] Bush (43rd) made a speech in Israel about the problems with speaking with the enemies of Israel. Well, naturally, this page has an opinion. You must […]
OceansOfThought @ May 22, 2008 # One Comment
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.– Abraham Lincoln . Who amung us does not remember the time they found a old brown photograph of their grandparents or the like, faded and time worn, yet a stark reminder of what once was; A time forgotten to past age? […]
OceansOfThought @ May 20, 2008 # Comments Off on On Fashion, Age, Time
“Passion has helped us; but can do so no more.” –Abraham Lincoln Every era has its fashion. The hip hop clock and the wild rock hair, of the 80’s in contrast to the work suit and conservative skirts of the 80’s. The semi suits and low casual dress contrasted to the “let’s lose the tie!” […]
OceansOfThought @ May 19, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Tabula Rasa of Humanity
“The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.” -Abraham Lincoln Humans, Aristotle stated in his works “On the Soul”, are Tabula Rasa, latin for (blank slate, clean slate, or scraped slate.) This belongs to a school of thought that we are shaped by what we […]
OceansOfThought @ May 8, 2008 # 2 Comments
“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. -Abraham Lincoln I don’t even know what to say about this story. I’m all for BIO technology, but does this story not strike you as intensely creepy? […]
OceansOfThought @ May 6, 2008 # Comments Off on On Things You Don’t Expect From Government
I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service — the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.”-Abraham Lincoln All governments screw up. It’s a fact of life, but these last two have made it to my editorial musings and i believed they should […]