Pieces And Parts @ March 22, 2008 # One Comment
Guest Essay by B.R. “Fear is the mother of all gods.” – Lucretius Sure, it started out harmless enough. Simple stories to explain away the things they encountered in their daily lives, nothing more than that. However, that would not last long. The simple stories would evolve and impact their daily lives, e.g. if the […]
Pieces And Parts @ March 21, 2008 # Comments Off on The Socio-Political History of Organized Religion, Part I
Guest Essay by B.R. “All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.” – Titus Lucretius Carus How, why, and when did the concept of gods, and now a singular divine entity, watching over humanity come into existence? What role does this concept play in the formation […]
OceansOfThought @ March 21, 2008 # One Comment
Quarrel not at all. – Abraham Lincoln let’s talk about race… I mean…, music. Rap tells a story, of where the singer is coming from, what they have lived thru and experienced, and the feelings they have, along with the circumstances that surround their lives. Country tells a story, of where the singer is coming from, […]
OceansOfThought @ March 20, 2008 # One Comment
I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. – Abraham Lincoln There are times in your life that your friends will be mad at you and there is nothing you can do about it. Further more, as frustrating as that is, they won’t respond to tell […]
OceansOfThought @ March 19, 2008 # Comments Off on On Why The Manager is Really the Problem
I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what’s said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make […]
OceansOfThought @ March 18, 2008 # One Comment
“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.” -Abraham Lincoln We are living in a renaissance, where everything that we know is changing and will change; in an era where all the old ivory towers are being assailed, no, lambasted with the fervor of the fires of our […]
OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2008 # 2 Comments
When i was young, my parents gave me this poem in a large poster that took up the side of my wall. I didn’t understand it and thought it was really …, weird. My surprise came where in my late forgetfulness of age when i found myself staring at the poem in my book of […]
OceansOfThought @ March 17, 2008 # 4 Comments
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. -Abraham Lincoln Humans it turns out, seem to have to be able to sense out something is wrong, but not always the ability to figure what is wrong; the reasons seems to be both social and a genetic […]
OceansOfThought @ March 16, 2008 # 2 Comments
If General McClellan isn’t going to use his army, I’d like to borrow it for a time.- Abraham LincolnCivilian oversite of the armed forces has been one of the greatest boon in modern times, but like the joint chiefs, civilians should stay the hell out of the way when there is actually soldiering to be […]
OceansOfThought @ March 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On Goverment Allowed Monopolies and Bad Customer Service
These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people. -Abraham Lincoln Customer service is the first causality of congressional meddling with the freemarket system. How can I say this? Allowed monopolies (like utilities, cable companies) do a horrible job of customer service. Don’t think so? google “Comcast sucks.” Customer Service […]