“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.” – Alfred North Whitehead.

Kathryn suggested yesterday that I must be unsatisfied with aspects of my business or I wouldn’t keep looking for other business elements. However I would counter with the above quote from Mathematician and Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead that ideas require action!

The revolution will not be televised.

GIL SCOTT-HERON

If you want to build a ship,
don’t drum up people together to collect wood
and don’t assign them tasks and work,
but rather teach them to long for
the endless immensity of the sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There was an old man in a boat
Who did almost nothing of note
Save sit in the bay
With the seagulls all day
And uncharismatically float

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“I’m a human being! My life has value!”

“So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell, “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!!”

Both quotes come from Howard in the film Network 1976.

“It is possible to argue, using (Peter Singer’s) utilitarian calculations, that the deaths of thousands of people (in the World Trade Center) whose trivial consumer satisfactions included the imposition of fundamental misery and death on hundreds of thousands of chickens reduced the amount of pain and suffering in the world.”
- Karen Davis, UPC

Sounds perfectly logical to me… Kevin Atkinson is attempting to persuade me of his anti-animal rights views and has directed me towards http://www.animalrights.net/. This is one of their daily quotes which I assume designed to prove the folly of animal rights logic and morality. Needlesstosay it has had no such affect on me so far!

A forecast which, by the very fact that it is stated, has the effect of bringing about what it claims and thereby making it more “true” than it would have been without publication. The implicit self-reference includes the acts of individuals who believe in the truth of the prophesy and are capable of either influencing or interpreting the course of events in the prophecy’s domain. The self-referential loop is rarely cognised by the believer. Besides many religious examples, such as miraculous healings, many phenomena, such as ethnic prejudices, teacher’s evaluation of student’s capabilities, etc. are largely self-fulfilling in this sense.

I was thinking about this because the following occurred to me: “an advance perception of an unsatisfactory result impedes progress by way of procrastination and inactivity, which in turn increases (or makes inevitable) the likelihood of an unsatisfactory result.”

Sound familiar anyone? Come on… all you people who’ve got something to do! Do it! Or… Begin and continue as someone I know is fond of telling me…

I close my eyes and see inside my head,
The memory of your face…
A little world I know…
Starts sending images of the home I once had,
Of encounters, Of moments, I was part of.

If the world is to everyone,
What each one sees,
What then it’s definition?

Federico Fellini

There is no end.
There is no beginning.
There is only the infinite passion of life.
— Federico Fellini