Those who know me fairly well will know that I have far too many interests in life, too many hobbies, one the tricks in life is to spend time doing things you love, and you have to eat too.
So this winter I'm going to combine many interests in a fun way, philosophy, psychology, comedy and magic should be fun together, it's doubtful if I can be within an asses roar of Steve Martin, but sure you never know
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
The only real failure in life is the failure to get back up.
I love this video, it hurts me to think of the way people get treated by society, the lack of understanding that people have for setbacks and dilemmas.
It hurts me because I have experienced setbacks in the last 14 months, I was fortunate enough to be able to get back up, I also had friends who did not get the opportunity to get back up, they had real difficulties which ended in death, mine did not, not because of me, but because fortune shone on me and allowed me to do what was needed to get back on my feet.
It was challenging because I was taken away for a while, my survival was assisted by machines, by the medics, but they also drugged me to the extent that I temporarily ceased to exist, and as Rene Descartes would say, “I think, therefore I am”
In my life for a short while I was not allowed to think. In subsequent setbacks there have been further attempts to “control” my life, inferring that I am not capable of thinking and others should do the thinking for me, perhaps I have interpreted Descartes to mean “I drink, therefore I am”. I don’t think so, but others limited opinions on my life seem to be more important than mine, inferring that the dilemmas were all my fault, and that their opinions can protect me from any sort of setback in the future,
Perhaps we should pay more attention to the philosophy of Winston Churchill.
“When you are going through hell - Keep going”
Social armour can be important, it can protect us from genuine dangers and threats, but society nowadays has embraced fear, control, health and safety to the extent that social armour has grown so cumbersome that it is restrictive, people are not allowed to live their own lives outside the social norms, and are not acceptable unless they don the required social armour. (first time I ever felt the need to adapt a post, but apologies to all concerned)
Well I am not buying it, and I sure as hell am not wearing it.
It hurts me because I have experienced setbacks in the last 14 months, I was fortunate enough to be able to get back up, I also had friends who did not get the opportunity to get back up, they had real difficulties which ended in death, mine did not, not because of me, but because fortune shone on me and allowed me to do what was needed to get back on my feet.
It was challenging because I was taken away for a while, my survival was assisted by machines, by the medics, but they also drugged me to the extent that I temporarily ceased to exist, and as Rene Descartes would say, “I think, therefore I am”
In my life for a short while I was not allowed to think. In subsequent setbacks there have been further attempts to “control” my life, inferring that I am not capable of thinking and others should do the thinking for me, perhaps I have interpreted Descartes to mean “I drink, therefore I am”. I don’t think so, but others limited opinions on my life seem to be more important than mine, inferring that the dilemmas were all my fault, and that their opinions can protect me from any sort of setback in the future,
Perhaps we should pay more attention to the philosophy of Winston Churchill.
“When you are going through hell - Keep going”
Social armour can be important, it can protect us from genuine dangers and threats, but society nowadays has embraced fear, control, health and safety to the extent that social armour has grown so cumbersome that it is restrictive, people are not allowed to live their own lives outside the social norms, and are not acceptable unless they don the required social armour. (first time I ever felt the need to adapt a post, but apologies to all concerned)
Well I am not buying it, and I sure as hell am not wearing it.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
A happy happy Sunday!
Brilliant day, an achievement which has been worked towards for a long time, and by a lot of people, to see the happiness on children's faces is well worth all the time and effort.
But nothing is never totally finished or complete in life, as the Beautiful South so wonderfully explain in this video, and the amazing thing is that the beautiful vocalist Jacqui Abbot was stacking shelves in supermarket in the north of England until Paul Heaton heard her doing Karaoke in a pub and asked her to join up, that was 15 years ago.
She stayed until 2000, and then departed, maybe she did find a man who was not happy to stay married to whoever and wanted to "cluck her"
But nothing is never totally finished or complete in life, as the Beautiful South so wonderfully explain in this video, and the amazing thing is that the beautiful vocalist Jacqui Abbot was stacking shelves in supermarket in the north of England until Paul Heaton heard her doing Karaoke in a pub and asked her to join up, that was 15 years ago.
She stayed until 2000, and then departed, maybe she did find a man who was not happy to stay married to whoever and wanted to "cluck her"
Friday, June 19, 2009
Feck Fridays
I have an old habit of posting quotes and amusing (to me anyway) stuff on a Friday, but today I just don't feel like it, so instead you get something which to me is really bloody important.... so watch this and maybe you can re-evaluate the rubbish that commonly passes for "happiness' in modern society.
Paul
Paul
Friday, June 12, 2009
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