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11.24.2004
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
Don't judge yourself so harshly. Don't demean yourself with such regularity. God is happy with you. God is not going to tell you that you messed up your life when your life is over. God is going to tell you that you did just great, and that God loves you. God is not judging you. Don't be judging yourself. You're OK. You're great. Let all the negativity go today and be good to yourself.
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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
There is a new ad out right now for a jaguar. It lists the seven deadly sins and then highlights "PRIDE." So I guess we've gone past the point of Orwell now. Instead of trying to call our materialism the opposite of what it is, we're coming right out and saying it. This is worse than the world Orwell predicted.
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Monday, November 22, 2004
Today is the 41st anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy. Last night I saw a fascinating 2-hour documentary put together by Peter jennings and using the latest computer modeling of the Zapruder film. They digitized the environment captured by Zapruder so that the action could be viewed from any angle or perspective and at any distance. In other words, you could look at the President from his left, his right, two inches away, twenty feet away, from the grassy knoll or from the front of the car - anywhere.
I came away convinced that Oswald acted alone.
Moreover, I came away distraught at the way I let myself be sucked into Oliver Stone's "JFK." If Peter jennings is correct, the Stone got multiple facts wrong, or flat out changed them. I really encourage you to see this documentary. It was on the Discover channel.
The right wing has no monopoly ontelling lies. If Oliver Stone took as many liberties with the truth in "JFK," indicting everyone from the CIA to Lyndon Johnson, as one is left to feel he did after watching this documentary, it is simply unconscienbale.
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11.21.2004
Sunday, November 21, 2004
Let's make it a trio of Ayn Rand:
"Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." - Ayn Rand
If you haven't the time to read "Atlas Shrugged," (which is a barbell of a book) there is a great documentary on her entitled, "A Sense of Life," that you might want to rent or buy.
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Saturday, November 20, 2004
Since I'm on an Ayn Rand roll, here's another one I love. By the way, there is a wonderful website called "Working Minds" that you might want to check out that has really great wake up calls. Go to www.working-minds.com. They have an entire collection of Ayn Rand quotations.
"I am an innovator. This is a term of distinction, a term of honor, rather than something to hide or apologize for. Anyone who has new or valuable ideas to offer stands outside the intellectual status quo. But the status quo is not a stream, let alone a 'mainstream'. It is a stagnant swamp. It is the innovators who carry mankind forward." - Ayn Rand
That one fits nicely with one of my other favorites by William James, who wrote in Pragmatism in 1907 that,
"First...a new theory is attacked as absurd; then it is admitted to be true, but obvious and insignificant; finally it is seen to be so important that its adversaries claim that they themselves discovered it."
This is what people will do with your ideas if they are truly transformational - if they alter the system at a fundamental level. Fear not if this is what is happening to you - if you are being called absurd or naiive. You may be in very good company.
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Friday, November 19, 2004
I love this sentiment by Ayn Rand, and over the course of my life so far have found it to be true. You can compromise on price, you can compromise on control, but you cannot compromise on principle. To compromise on principle is cowardice and whatever gain it brings in the short term is made utterly insignificant by the price one pays over the long haul. To compromise on principle is the easiest thing in the world to do in the moment, but it always comes back to bite you in the ass.
"The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." - Ayn Rand
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