OceansOfThought @ March 27, 2008 # One Comment
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. -Abraham Lincoln America is facing a real problem today: Democracy at work. On the democratic side (2008), the nominee for president is still in doubt, and the closer the process gets to the convention the more people are talking about […]
OceansOfThought @ March 26, 2008 # One Comment
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. -Abraham Lincoln In my short life I have had the standard number of birthdays for my age as many other people. But there are […]
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 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 # 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 17, 2008 # Comments Off on On Being Lazy About Religion
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 know someone who often says (i paraphrase) ” I don’t like agnostics because that’s just being lazy.” Yes, the Lazy is his word, not mine. He usually explains that […]
OceansOfThought @ March 10, 2008 # Comments Off on On the Failure of Morality aka Hello Hypocrisy
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln. Perhaps I should have called this, the fall of the high and mighty. It has become a sad joke the number of politicians who rail against gay’s, who are themselves gay, who are disgusted by corruption who are […]
OceansOfThought @ March 3, 2008 # 2 Comments
“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.” -Abraham Lincoln I’m not a slave to objectivity. I’m never quite sure what is means. And it means different things to […]
OceansOfThought @ February 22, 2008 # 4 Comments
“…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” -Abraham Lincoln Hypocrisy does not mean you can’t sell your soul. How many […]
OceansOfThought @ February 10, 2008 # Comments Off on On The Desperation of Valentine’s Day
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln It is true: men lead lives of quite desperation. That desperation is pain. We want lives of fulfillment, but we are wracked with guilt over past experience, saddled with baggage of lost […]