Technology

I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.

3. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.

                                Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt

 

 

 

 

 

Imagine that

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future. 

                        Jessamyn West, A Matter of Time 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Food for thought

I think I exist,
    therefore I exist.
        I think.

    David Gerrod, The Man Who Folded Himself

 

 

 

 

 

All God's Children

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently.
Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names,
        but they all contain water.
So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth,
        expressed in different ways forms and times.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew.
When you believe in God, you should believe
        that all people are part of one family.
If you love God, you can’t love only some of his children.

    Muhammad Ali, The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life’s Journey 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Poems: Two views of hope

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"Hope" is the thing with feathers --
That perches in the soul --
And sings the tune without the words --
And never stops -- at all --

And sweetest -- in the Gale -- is heard --
And sore must be the storm --
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm --

I've heard it in the chillest land --
And on the strangest Sea --
Yet, never, in Extremity,
It asked a crumb -- of Me.


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Hope is a subtle Glutton --
He feeds upon the Fair --
And yet -- inspected closely
What Abstinence is there --

His is the Halcyon Table --
That never seats but One --
And whatsoever is consumed
The same amount remain --

        Emily Dickinson

Once again...

Phil: Do you know what today is?

Rita: No, what?

Phil: Today is tomorrow. It happened.
 

        From the movie Groundhog Day

 

 

 

February

The most serious charge
which can be brought against New England
is not Puritanism but February.

    Joseph Wood Krutch, The Twelve Seasons