Friday, October 31, 2008

Astrology and such ...

Tell me if this describes you... 


You have a need for other people to like and admire you, and yet you tend to be critical of yourself. While you have some personality weaknesses you are generally able to compensate for them. You have considerable unused capacity that you have not turned to your advantage. Disciplined and self-controlled on the outside, you tend to be worrisome and insecure on the inside. At times you have serious doubts as to whether you have made the right decision or done the right thing. You prefer a certain amount of change and variety and become dissatisfied when hemmed in by restrictions and limitations. You also pride yourself as an independent thinker; and do not accept others' statements without satisfactory proof. But you have found it unwise to be too frank in revealing yourself to others. At times you are extroverted, affable, and sociable, while at other times you are introverted, wary, and reserved. Some of your aspirations tend to be rather unrealistic.

This describes every human being on the planet. 

Check it out here... http://www.skepdic.com/forer.html

This is nothing official but...


IF the world could vote for the US president... the term "Blue Planet" would have a whole new meaning. 

http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Bruce said the Truth...

"Let me tell you the truth. The truth is... what is.  And what should be is a fantasy, a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago." - Lenny Bruce. 

And that is the Truth. 

That's all I have to say today. 


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

You say God, I say Derren Brown.


Look at what the brain can do or make you do... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f29kF1vZ62o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My67277vaGk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMsngNWMfH4&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZohpDS2aMc&feature=related

and last but not least... 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOEKdaXIEHc&feature=related

So it's all in our heads. 

Sunday, October 12, 2008

I found it, the most under-rated virtue is...


Nobel Laureate Wislawa Szymborska put it beautifully... 

In Praise of Self-Deprecation

The Buzzard has nothing to fault himself with. 
Scruples are alien to the black panther. 
Piranhas do not doubt the rightness of their actions.
The rattlesnake approves of himself without reservations. 

The self-critical jackal does not exist. 
The locust, alligator, trichina, horsefly
live as they live and are glad of it. 

The killer-whale's heart weighs one hundred kilos
but in other respects it is light.

There is nothing more animal-like
than a clear conscience
on the third planet of the Sun. 


This poem caused a paradigm shift in my life and when I reread the poem just now it re-emphasized the importance of poetry - and it all was 'a posteriori' thinking.