On The Money Multiplier, Direct Deposit, Debt and Capitalism
OceansOfThought @ June 18, 2008 # 4 Comments
The government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the government and the buying power of consumers[....] Money will cease to be master and will then become servant of humanity. – Abraham Lincoln
Remember, back in the old days, you had to GIVE the bank money [...]
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On Why The News Lies to You (With Video Tape)
OceansOfThought @ June 17, 2008 # Comments Off
If you look for the bad in people expecting to find it, you surely will. – Abraham Lincoln
Many people have a problem with the news, and i have to say at this point, it’s their fault. We let this happen. Just like newspaper headline editors, broadcast news editors don’t put things in the [...]
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On Why Your Mama Don’t Dance and Your Daddy Don’t Rock
OceansOfThought @ June 11, 2008 # Comments Off
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time. – Abraham Lincoln
A recent study noted that amung the baby Boomer generation (40+) 53 % do not use any social networking site. 22% use it while 26% may use it in the future. They had a nice little [...]
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On Being Location Aware
OceansOfThought @ June 6, 2008 # Comments Off
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward. -Abraham Lincoln
There are any number of stories about people misusing technology, but the one I like the most is the missuses of GPS and being location aware. You can Google the misuse yourself, but you’ll find people driving off bridges, into glass cases and all manner [...]
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On Deciding Between Lord of the Flies or Matrix
OceansOfThought @ June 3, 2008 # One Comment
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. – Abraham Lincoln
Many of us have become drones in the great machine of our great Civilization, and like drones, we don’t have to know what’s going on, only that we are working to make the whole better than it’s parts. Thou, [...]
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On Friendly Strangers
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 [...]
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On Try, Try and Try Again
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 just [...]
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On Being Dependent Without Realization
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 dependent, yet [...]
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On Speaking With Enemies
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 [...]
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On The Cost of Memories so Fleeting
OceansOfThought @ May 22, 2008 # One Comment
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.- Abraham Lincoln
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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? Even today, [...]
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