Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
The Waking Dream
You are what you think...
think good things.
You create your own reality...
what will you create?
You are completely responsible...
for every person on the planet.
There are no victims...
there are no excuses.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Truth
La Vérité ("Truth")
by Jules Joseph Lefebvre 1870
The ancient Greek origins of the words "true" and "truth" have some consistent definitions throughout great spans of history that were often associated with topics of logic, geometry, mathematics, deduction, induction, and natural philosophy.
Socrates', Plato's and Aristotle's ideas about truth are commonly seen as consistent with correspondence theory. In his Metaphysics, Aristotle stated:
To say of what is that it is not,
or of what is not that it is, is false,
while to say of what is that it is,
and of what is not that it is not, is true.
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Saturday, April 17, 2010
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Sunday, January 17, 2010
God didn't make any "bad" people
Believe nothing,
no matter where you read it,
or who said it,
no matter if I have said it,
unless it agrees with your own reason
and your own common sense.
Buddha
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Just because
Just
because
you
believe
something...
doesn't
make
it
true
Sunday, January 3, 2010
"The Great Bird of the Galaxy"
Majel and Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley "Gene" Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American screenwriter, producer and futurist. He created the American science-fiction series Star Trek, an accomplishment for which he was sometimes referred to as the "Great Bird of the Galaxy" due to the show's influence on popular culture. He was one of the first people to have his ashes "buried" in space. Gene Roddenberry has been inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He will be inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Hall of Fame in January 2010.
As early as 1960, Gene Roddenberry had drafted a proposal for the science fiction series which would become Star Trek. Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space – a so-called "Wagon Train to the Stars" – he privately told friends that he was actually modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two levels: as a suspenseful adventure story and as a morality tale.
Star Trek stories usually depict the adventures of humans and aliens who serve in the Federation's Starfleet. The protagonists are essentially altruists whose ideals are sometimes only imperfectly applied to the dilemmas presented in the series. The conflicts and political dimensions of Star Trek sometimes represent allegories for contemporary cultural realities: Star Trek: The Original Series addressed issues of the 1960s, just as later spin-offs have reflected issues of their respective decades. Issues depicted in the various series include war and peace, the value of personal loyalty, authoritarianism, imperialism, class warfare, economics, racism, religion, human rights, sexism and feminism, and the role of technology. Roddenberry stated: "[By creating] a new world with new rules, I could make statements about sex, religion, Vietnam, politics, and intercontinental missiles. Indeed, we did make them on Star Trek: we were sending messages and fortunately they all got by the network."
Roddenberry intended the show to have a highly progressive political agenda reflective of the emerging counter-culture of the youth movement, though he was not fully forthcoming to the networks about this. He wanted Star Trek to show mankind what it might develop into, if only it would learn from the lessons of the past, most specifically by ending violence. An extreme example are the Vulcans, who had a very violent past but learned to control their emotions. His efforts were somewhat thwarted by the network's concerns over marketability. For example, they were opposed to Roddenberry's insistence on a racially diverse crew of the Enterprise, against the opposition of the studio.
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Friday, December 18, 2009
I Can Fly
I can fly
I can make a machine
I can make it fly
I can leave the earth
I can soar above the clouds
I can reach the heavens
I learned to fly when I was 6 years old
I can fly
Thursday, December 3, 2009
It's Time To Change The World
"I believe that to meet the challenge of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for his or her own self, family or nation, but for the benefit of all mankind. Universal responsibility is the real key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace, the equitable use of natural resources, and through concern for future generations, the proper care of the environment."
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Thursday, November 19, 2009
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Friday, October 2, 2009
Women Rule The World
Lysistrata is one of the few surviving plays written by
the master of Old Comedy, Aristophanes. Originally
performed in classical Athens in 411 BC, it is a comic
account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end
The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women
of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their
husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate
peace, a strategy however that inflames the battle
between the sexes. The play is notable for its exposé
of sexual relations in a male-dominated society and for
its use of both double entendre and explicit obscenities.
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