OceansOfThought @ June 20, 2008 # Comments Off on On Why Any Education is Better Than None
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.– Abraham Lincoln Soon enough you’ll hear a story that you want to be false. This involves usually horrific things (like fathers keeping their children in basements and getting them significant children. ) I bring you another. Incase […]
OceansOfThought @ June 19, 2008 # 4 Comments
The will of God prevails. – Abraham Lincoln Gravity rules all our lives. Everything we are eventually comes from gravity, and its by products: Suns, moons, magnetic fields, spins, rotations, force. By definition, if an object has mass, it has a gravity, (even if the gravity is negligible compared to something else. btw never use […]
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 […]
OceansOfThought @ June 11, 2008 # Comments Off on On Why Your Mama Don’t Dance and Your Daddy Don’t Rock
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 chart […]
OceansOfThought @ June 9, 2008 # 3 Comments
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”-Abraham Lincoln We’ve alluded to the fact, in these editorials, it seems humans like settling for second best. We claim we want a better mouse trap but really we really don’t want a better mouse trap, we want to not see […]
OceansOfThought @ June 4, 2008 # Comments Off on On Laying Our Burdens Down
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day. – Abraham Lincoln A physchirist can tell you about your inner child, and your church can pray for you, but we are […]
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, we are […]
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 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 […]