I had to finish the Do It Now, Do It Fast slogan.
Yes, Do It Now, Do It Fast, You’ll be Glad You Did!
The meaning of life? Meaningless, without a perspective. Much like the universe.
Nothing really exists without the apparatus that defines it.
Archive for November, 2008
You’ll Be Glad You Did
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008Happy Birthday Judy!
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008I love you,
Mark
Can’t and Won’t Are The Same Thing
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008A buddy of mine, Jerry Howe, once said to me something along the lines that if I could do something I said I could do, and did not do it, then that amounts to the same thing as not being able to do it. Now, that was not meant literally, but rather philosophically.
So, we are not talking about martial artists who can kill with one blow not having that ability because they don’t kill with one blow. No, we are talking about the self imposed limitations of the human spirit, the downer attitudes that keep us from doing, whatever, whatever, we want.
The kind of thinking that states, I would if I could but I can’t, when in reality we could but we just don’t.
See, Do It Now.
Do It Fast
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008On a somewhat related note I’ve decided to talk a little bit about time. Time is on my side, yes it is.
One philosophy is that time is an illusion, the fact is, there is no time. The truth is, there is no time, no time to do anything at all, any time at all.
But back to the point, in our product based societies we rarely look at the alternative results in time based productivity. What if you could achieve more in less time? Did you lose that productivity?
In other words, is unrealized potential the same as losing that potential?
In productivity terms yes. Take that elusive mass delusion known as money. If I earn dollars, in a given amount of time, but could have earned more dollars, in the same amount of time, I actually lost dollars. The same goes for non-monetary matters.
For example: If I could sit under an oak tree, and ponder the lack of meaning in the universe without a point of view or apparatus with which to measure meaning, for 4 hours, but could have sat there for 8 hours, I lost 4 hours of pondering time.
So there is something to be said for not only realizing we are in the now, and now is the only time (pun intended) to do it, but to do it fast as well. To maximize….whatever it is.
Whatever, whatever, I do what I want.
Do It Now!
Friday, November 14th, 2008Philosophy tends to be somewhat dry and prone to inaction.
Not that philosophy isn’t the actual seat of all action, for values spring from philosophy consciously and subconsciously, however we typically think of philosophers as cerebral people who don’t really do much.
Philosophers deal with such concepts as truth, not facts. To paraphrase Indiana Jones “we deal in facts, if you want to debate the truth head down the hall to the philosophy department”. Or as Dad said to Young Einstein of scientists “what do they grow son?”
Sitting here in North Fork and thinking, constantly thinking (if only you’d been a man of action!) I had a revelation today. Or any day really.
Philosophy gets old because our brains seem unlimited in the thought process but really simply rehash the thoughts of those who have thought before, if not numbed into oblivion.
Do it now. I was thinking about how almost constantly we put things off, the smallest things even, and they pile up. Much like the junk we pile up.
Do it now. So if you have something to file file it. If you have some great idea write it down, then execute. Keep the crap from piling up.
Do it now, for now is truly the only time it will get done.
Obama Wins Big
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Standing on principle the United States of America gave a sweeping mandate to the one man in a position to affect meaningful change despite what the song says. See No Change by Off Every Day.
I was disappointed at times by Obama’s apparent lack of conviction, lack of consistency, lack of principle, but ultimately I found that he, the man, as a whole, is genuine and seriously championing equality, freedom, justice, democracy, the heart and soul of the USA. Like Andrew Jackson.
I called this election to be a land slide because I knew that US principles could no longer stand idly by and watch our country being destroyed, fragmented and shattered into ideological camps of lunatics because the effects were coming home and because some people became aware of the fact that business as usual was not sustainable.
11 trillion in the hole, 1 trillion expected in deficit spending, the US is in heaps of trouble, but our captain to be, is a steady hand in turbulent seas.
I recall thinking out loud when Obama was nominated how fucking unbelievably great this nation is.
Despite all that had happened, all the global sentiment against us, all of the dolt president’s bungling crimes, all the hatred and jealousy, all the dying human beings in useless conflict, all the US erosion of responsibility and leadership, all the apparent results of the end of US economic dominance, all the US imperialist mandates, despite this erosion of the US the Dems nominate Barack Hussein Obama to run for President of the United States of America.
We the People of the United States of America then elect him.
Has the US sent a message to the world? Fucking aye!
What a fucking great Country this is. It’s a matter of principle.
Principle
Monday, November 3rd, 2008There’s something to be said for principle.
As we peel away the layers of humanity and come to the realization that humans are a part of this earth and not on this earth and that our own vanity inflates our self worth to the point of believing there must be more to us, we can see that principle, or principles are the underlying basis of what makes a human…human.
Here in the United States we have an opportunity to voice our principles in a big way tomorrow, if one is of voting age.
Barack Obama will become the first President of the United States that symbolizes the principles of equality, honesty, justice and freedom.
Are these principles that we value? Do our actions evince these principles?
My vote is for Barack Obama as a matter of principle.