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!” […]

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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 […]

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On Technology Run Amock

“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? […]

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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 […]

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On Where Religion Should Stop

“With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in;”- Abraham Lincoln  Many people seem to have a problem with religion.  After talking with them a bit it turns out many of these […]

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On Being Dependent Without Realization

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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 not addicted, usually such realization occurs when something happens that affects the person’s living status: Like losing a job, or family leaving, or a divorce. Psychological dependence are not rare either: Video games, the need to drive fast, coffee every morning; Lose your glasses, and does it stop everything else in your life till it’s found? What about your purse or wallet? Does the world cease to function? More on page 83

OceansOfThought @ May 27, 2008

On Speaking With Enemies

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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 speak with your enemies; there is never a reason not to talk to them. When you don’t talk it to someone who you distrust, or distrust you, it leads to paranoia, fear and misunderstanding.

During the cold war, with our dire enemy the USSR, we had a direct red phone connection; earlier we had a direct teletype. Nixon visited china and how the many trips of Regan and the Pope (jp the II) to then USSR. More on page 82

OceansOfThought @ May 23, 2008

On The Cost of Memories so Fleeting

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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, almost all of us can go dashing about the house in some old tool or shoe box and find a memory, lost in time, caption on the back.

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OceansOfThought @ May 22, 2008