Archive for the ‘Random Thoughts’ Category
Medium: Money
Money is passed around quite a lot. We often think of where and how to spend it, but have you ever thought of using it as a canvas or a way to share a message? Well, wether bordem or an agenda many people have put their mark on currency. Here are some sites that have compiled examples:
Persecuted For Wearing The Beard
I know that I’ve mentioned the story of Joseph Palmer to a few people, but wanted to make a note of it here for myself and those who may have not heard it yet. A story that seems to be easily forgotten in U.S.A. history, it should not be. Persecution can come in all shapes and sizes and over something as simple a man wearing a beard.
My goatee has often drawn interest from people and most of which is positive or inquisitive. I do get the comments that I should cut it off, more often by people I have known for a while and I do not really mind. They are free to have their opinion and in this case I am going to ignore it or insist that they are just jealous. But I’ve heard others make comments about people with tattoos, piercings, different ethnicities , so on and so forth. I may have some mental deficiencies (those who know me would say I should drop the may), but I don’t understand why some people are so bothered by other people not being like them.
Be wary of your own prejudices, they do not serve you well.
Please read about Joseph Palmer here:
Quakes
So, living in the Northern Kentucky area we don’t get to many earthquakes and they’re usually just something you mention along with talking about the weather. Well, we got to feel a decent sized one this morning, actually enough to wake me and my wife up. A little later this morning I felt another, but my son didn’t. So, I begin to think I imagined it and thus seek to find out if I did or not. Which lead me to a site where I not only confirmed my experience, but also had opportunity to share it.
Some interesting things I looked at today.
Instead of trying to write a tidbit about each of these links I figured I’d just send you straight there and let you take a gander yourself.
Space Is Full of Crap
Even Gigantic Celestial Bodies Prefer Firefox to IE
Europe Says Net Banning Is a Violation of “Civil Liberties and Human Rights”
FCC Prepping Nationwide Text Message Alert System
How does one become evil?
Often there are situations which we will wonder if we were how we would behave and often being removed from the actual situation we believe that we would behave in the best possible sense. We want to think that there are good people and evil people. We hope that we will always be that good person. We know that we are only hypothesizing about how we would behave and we’ll actually not know unless we are actually in the situation, but also recognize that we’d rather not be tested.
Here is a short interesting article on Phillip Zimbardo and his research into understanding how good people turn evil.
