Thought for the day

[basilio]

This is a longer Thought for the Day but check it out.
Its only 8 minutes...

What lies ahead is the past.’
A Neanderthal walks us through the passage of time to predict the future using the lessons of the past

 

[noirua]

As the man said, "my wife ran away and then the hens stopped laying; and the second tragedy was worse than the first".

 

[Tink]

“Music is a wonderful example of something that’s in this world but not of this world.
Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds.”

Roger Scruton
RIP

 

[noirua]

Never pile anything into any form of black hole.

 

[Tink]

Stephen Hawking's compilation of works by Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, and Einstein is titled On The Shoulders of Giants. The Great Works of Physics and Astronomy.

In 2017, Hawking stated: "Each generation stands on the shoulders of those who have gone before them, just as I did as a young PhD student in Cambridge, inspired by the work of Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell and Albert Einstein."

 

[noirua]

When things get bad, very very bad, it will test our ability to stand up or our propensity that could prevent us from cracking up or diving into the abyss. This liking or wanting in another sphere is an alternative direction that will help us and probably succeed in us holding on in.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

Khmae krhom somlap, mun dael prap

(Khmer Rouge kill, but don't explain)

 

[noirua]

Beware people who sound good and talk a lot of commonsense. Especially if they dwell in the financial sector.

 

[noirua]

Yes Cardinal, you are certainly a priest of a lesser god.

 

[noirua]

How great is that and few could do as fantastic as I have done - god walks.

 

[noirua]

That's gone completely wrong and what idiot was it who told me to do that.

 

[noirua]

Never stop trying. Never stop believing. Never give up. Your day will come.

 

[Dona Ferentes]

That's gone completely wrong and what idiot was it who told me to do that.

Vox Clamantis in Deserto

 

[noirua]

Those who tell don't know; those who know don't tell.

 

[noirua]

10 May 3020, With the advancements made similar to those carried out on the moon it has been agreed to split Australia into 32 States from the present 22. The population in the last census was 1,512,362,418.

 

[noirua]

I've never visited the place in my life though I go there every day!

 

[Dona Ferentes]

When all was said and done, there was nothing left to say or do

 

[moXJO]

“But it was alright, everything was alright, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.”

 

[basilio]

In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense. And what was terrifying was not that they would kill you for thinking otherwise, but that they might be right. For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?[26]

 

[noirua]

• Above 37.8 degrees – unfortunately, we will not be able to permit you to enter ASF virtually, we will advise you to isolate for 2 weeks in your garden shed or hidden within an Argyle Apple or Bunya Pine, and beforehand seek advice from Donald Trump on Twitter. Be warned that the reply might be 'fat checked'.