Lawrence R. Spencer's Blog, page 390
August 16, 2017
JUST BE FOR THE SAKE OF BEING
JUST BE FOR THE SAKE OF BEING. WE LIVE ON AN ISOLATED PLANET FAR FROM OUR HOME. IT FLOATS IN AN EVER-EXPANDING, NEARLY INFINITE UNIVERSE MADE ENTIRELY OF BRUTAL FORCES OF WHICH WE HAVE LITTLE PERCEPTION, AND OVER WHICH WE HAVE NO CONTROL. IT IS DEVOID OF COMPASSION, WITH NO PURPOSE OR MEANING EXCEPT THE QUALITIES WE ASSIGN TO IT. WE ARE ENTRAPPED IN AN ETERNAL NOW OF MUTUALLY CREATED MYOPIC ILLUSIONS WE CALL “REALITY”. THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IS CHANGE. ONE CAN OBSERVE CHANGE WITHOUT BECOMING THE CHANGE. JUST BE.
Originally posted 2012-05-25 15:04:13. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 15, 2017
COPYRIGHT LAW: GOOD or EVIL?
Do copyright law discourage creativity or discourage lame knock-offs (like most of the stuff on TV or coming out of Hollywood)? Let’s argue about it! Leave a comment.
Originally posted 2011-08-26 11:08:56. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 14, 2017
AN ILLUSION
You are Immortal — Time is an Illusion
Originally posted 2014-05-01 21:44:04. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 13, 2017
HOW EMBARRASSING TO BE HUMAN
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. — ( November 11, 1922 – April 11, 2007) was an American writer. In a career spanning over 50 years, Vonnegut published 14 novels, three short story collections, five plays, and five works of non-fiction. He is most famous for his darkly satirical, best-selling novel Slaughterhouse-Five (1969).
Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Vonnegut attended Cornell University, but dropped out in January 1943 and enlisted in the United States Army. As part of his training, he studied mechanical engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) and the University of Tennessee. He was then deployed to Europe to fight in World War II, and was captured by the Germans during the Battle of the Bulge. He was interned in Dresden and survived the Allied bombing of the city by taking refuge in a meat locker of the slaughterhouse where he was imprisoned. After the war, Vonnegut married Jane Marie Cox, with whom he had three children. He later adopted his sister’s three sons, after she died of cancer and her husband died in a train accident.
Vonnegut published his first novel, Player Piano, in 1952. The novel was reviewed positively, but was not commercially successful. In the nearly 20 years that followed, Vonnegut published several novels that were only marginally successful, such as Cat’s Cradle (1963) and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (1964). Vonnegut’s magnum opus, however, was his immediately successful sixth novel, Slaughterhouse-Five. The book’s antiwar sentiment resonated with its readers amidst the ongoing Vietnam War, and its reviews were generally positive. After its release, Slaughterhouse-Five went to the top of The New York Times Best Seller list, thrusting Vonnegut into fame. He was invited to give speeches, lectures, and commencement addresses around the country and received many awards and honors.
Later in his career, Vonnegut published several autobiographical essays and short-story collections, including Fates Worse Than Death (1991), and A Man Without a Country (2005). After his death, he was hailed as a morbidly comical commentator on the society in which he lived, and as one of the most important contemporary writers. Vonnegut’s son Mark published a compilation of his father’s unpublished compositions, titled Armageddon in Retrospect. Numerous scholarly works have examined Vonnegut’s writing and humor.
August 12, 2017
KINDNESS
VISIT THE WEBSITE for the book at www.alieninterview.org
Originally posted 2015-03-18 00:22:30. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 11, 2017
August 10, 2017
TOP TEN WEIRD BUT YUMMY NUTS
Here’s more information about nuts than you’ve probably every known. Fascinating and nutritious information! Click the link below to read the article and see photos of bizarre nuts from around the world.
Crunch Time: The World’s 10 Most Unusual Nuts | WebEcoist.
Originally posted 2011-10-05 10:28:45. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
August 9, 2017
MAKE FRIENDS
Maxwell Maltz (March 10, 1889 – April 7, 1975) was an American cosmetic surgeon and author of Psycho-Cybernetics (1960), which was a system of ideas that he claimed could improve one’s self-image. In turn, the person would lead a more successful and fulfilling life. He wrote several books, among which Psycho-Cybernetics was a long-time bestseller — influencing many subsequent self-help teachers. His orientation towards a system of ideas that would provide self-help is considered the forerunner of the now popular self-help books.
The book introduced Maltz’s views where a person must have an accurate and positive view of him- or herself before setting goals; otherwise he or she will get stuck in a continuing pattern of limiting beliefs. His ideas focus on visualizing one’s goals and he believes that self-image is the cornerstone of all the changes that take place in a person. According to Maltz, if one’s self-image is unhealthy or faulty — all of his or her efforts will end in failure. — (reference: Wikipedia.org)
Originally posted 2013-08-13 13:22:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
