Showing posts tagged: philosophy
JIM HENSON
I think Ms. Rand and my character Oscar the Grouch would have a lot to talk about actually. I am laughing out loud at this idea.AYN RAND
Why would I want to talk to him. What has he achieved or trying to achieve.JIM HENSON
He has achieved what I think is the ultimate goal of your way of thinking.JIM HENSON
Isolation. Contempt for others. A hard heart. Yet even he can muster a bit of empathy every now and then.AYN RAND
I am not isolated. I have no contempt for others. Millions of people read my books and find my thoughts inspirational. I hardly spend my time on the sidelines in a trash can grumping.JIM HENSON
Not yet anyway.
Jim Henson and Ayn Rand, along with Yoko Ono and Sidney Nolan, converse on ARPANET, 1976 (via mocasia)
Ok the whole conversation from ARPANET is amazing. Click on the link above.
(Source: antoine-roquentin, via mocasia)
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yesterday’s Stephen Hawking quote from his interview with The Guardian got me thinking. And here is where I land:
I don’t like religion because it’s a foolish attempt to explain what we don’t know. I prefer science because it is a noble attempt to understand what we don’t know. But in the end, we all need to do a better job of accepting and embracing what we don’t know because that’s the only way we will ever be at peace with ourselves.
The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality. We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day. The inverse square law of gravitation is amazing. Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs.
The nearly infinite set of dominoes that have fallen into each other in order for us to be here tonight is unfathomable. Truly unfathomable. But it is logical. We don’t know all the steps in that logic, but we’re learning more about it every day. Learning, expanding our consciousness, singly and universally. As far as I can see, the three main intolerant religions in the world aren’t helping in that mission.
Food for The Eagle - Adam Savage’s speech to Harvard Humanism Society
Read the whole thing.
(via wilwheaton)
It’s like Adam Savage sat in my head for a day and spit out everything I was thinking, but far more eloquently than I ever could. An awesome speech.
(via cvxn)
In my core I don’t accept compromise in any form. As an individual, I will never sacrifice my own principles in the interest of catering to someone else’s, nor would I ever expect or ask them to do the same for me. Sacrifice and compromise will never factor into my selfish, personal decisions, thus relegating me to a single, childless existence.
And most would argue that my inability to see any kind of flaw in my reasoning IS my biggest flaw.
I’m 32 years old.
I’ve lived in New York, Paris, Kansas City, San Francisco, Stockholm, and now Berlin.
In that time, I’ve picked up French, Arabic, Swedish, and now I’m learning German.
And yet the more I do, the more I experience, the more I learn about myself and about the world we live in…
…the more I want to do with my life.
