i was a bit on the fence about this show - but episode 3 of the IT Crowd is much funnier than cheney shooting a 78 yr old lawyer.
dream of the sea . . . or possibly the worlds' only bird that samples .
noam chompsky on BBC . . . in the US there is freedom of expression, but not freedom of thought . . . pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.
DAILY QUOTE FROM JKRISHNAMURTI.org
One of the things, it seems to me, that most
of us eagerly accept and take for granted is the question of beliefs. I
am not attacking beliefs. What we are trying to do is to find out why
we accept beliefs; and if we can understand the motives, the causation
of acceptance, then perhaps we may be able not only to understand why
we do it, but also be free of it. One can see how political and
religious beliefs, national and various other types of beliefs, do
separate people, do create conflict, confusion, and antagonism—which is
an obvious fact; and yet we are unwilling to give them up. There is the
Hindu belief, the Christian belief, the Buddhist—innumerable sectarian
and national beliefs, various political ideologies, all contending with
one other, trying to convert one other. One can see, obviously, that
belief is separating people, creating intolerance; is it possible to
live without belief? One can find that out only if one can study
oneself in relationship to a belief. Is it possible to live in this
world without a belief—not change beliefs, not substitute one belief
for another, but be entirely free from all beliefs, so that one meets
life anew each minute? This, after all, is the truth: to have the
capacity of meeting everything anew, from moment to moment, without the
conditioning reaction of the past, so that there is not the cumulative
effect which acts as a barrier between oneself and that which is.
The Book of Life