Are You Wise Enough To Fool Around?

Festival of the Fool

It’s a celebration of New Beginnings

Care not for the Consequences

Let it be in the joy of Innocence

Exploring new found Freedom

Let spontaneity be in the Expression

Revel in the gift of Originality

It’s a time for knowing true Happiness

No one has reason to be the Judge

Released from the burden of Attachment

It’s a day of birth for men’s Initiatives

A day of embarking upon an Adventure

Lessoning the weights of Responsibility

Taking courage in spite of Inexperience

Disregarding the risk of Immaturity

Seizing the chances with Optimism

Casting off chains of fear and venturing with Boldness

Cherishing money and gold less than Foolhardiness

This is the day of celebrating the Fool’s Festival.

The Fool’s Wise Motto: Memento Mori - Carpe Diem!

© Qu’ove Revolution 2007

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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself a fool.

- Anatole France.

I must learn to love the fool in me the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

Proverbs for thought:

In life, each of us sometimes has to play the fool. - Yiddish Proverb

When the fool is shown a proverb, its meaning has to be explained. - African Proverb

God created the flirt as soon as he made the fool. - Victor Hugo

Wishing You all a Happy April Fools Day.

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• Kat T

My dear, tomorrow is April Fools Day, but in VietNam we call this 1st day in April is "Lie day", it means people can say a lie and nobody can have any reason to complain about it. Have you been missing me every 15.46 seconds? Thank God today it's still 31st March so I'll guess I should believe you dear! Love you always 31X,

Saturday 31 March 2007 - 01:37PM (BST)

• Julie

Yeah I'm a fool. Oh I went on the number 5 bus today! Yeah.

Saturday 31 March 2007 - 06:54PM (BST)

• Sai

Theodore Isaac Rubin...

i believe in his quote that he just described the meaning of a meaninless & meaningful life... speaking of OxyMorons... or should i sai: 'Wise fools'?

Saturday 31 March 2007 - 04:29PM (CDT)

• Lady …

Thodore Isaac Rubin...

He has said it so beautifully...and I wonder if being a fool is so so rewarding and so fascinating then why we spend our entire life just trying NOT to be one ?? I know there is fool in me - I laugh with him, laugh at him, love him, get mad at him, cry with him and sometimes show pity on him too so needless to say it has caused me some grief as well but still I do know, I won't be able to live without him - life won't make much sense then ! Without being a little senseless could we ever be able to make sense of "sense" in life ?? Honestly,I don't think so. Besides, personally I feel this persuit of knowledge though has given me power but has not served me much good other than that - it has stolen from me my very lucrative innocence. And yes, "lucrative" that's how it seems to me now. And now I want to be an ABSOLUTE FOOL exactly the way Rubin has described it but I couldn't - this stolen innocence is simply not alowing me to let my guard down and I just wish I could...!!

Anyway, Happy April Fools' Day...Oops...should I say this ?? ;-)

Sunday 1 April 2007 - 02:29AM (CDT)

• emNgầu

Well, I like to play the fool sometimes!
Oh, I didn't lie anybody today and it's almost gone!
Hummm, actually we didn't have a good day!
Hehe...Hope you have a Happy Fool's Day too!

Sunday 1 April 2007 - 10:21PM (ICT)

• Phil-…

Moon - I'm no fool for missing you every 15.46 secs, and I am truly glad you didn't mind to marry such a fool as me ;-)

Julie - the wheels on the 'five' bus go round and round, round and round, the wheels on the 'five' bus go round and round, round and round all day long...

Sai - No oxymoron would give such mean love for a meaningless meaningful life as a grown up boy as me.

Ladybird - I think your saying a wise fool makes sensible nonsense of the foolish wise man within himself. Can you have innocence with knowledge as in innocent knowledge? You talk of innocence as lucrative as in being innocent has value. The Adam and Eve story does give that impression, but I consider that the value it has is only of value momentarily rather like fool's gold.

Bao Anh - Thanks and wishing you a happy Fool's Day in return!

Sunday 1 April 2007 - 06:31PM (GMT)

• Sai

ladybird ~ what Phil said...

but with an added extra oomph of life to you.

if u want to play with your inner and fool then do so. don't let the Fat on Life people get you down... it's your life and your fool to play with, do so! No Regrets!

everything does happen for a reason, and usually in Mysterious Wai's.

Sunday 1 April 2007 - 05:11PM (CDT)

• Sai

and to answer the real question...

hell yes, i am very Wise!

Sunday 1 April 2007 - 10:36PM (CDT)

• Lady …

Thanks Sai for the oomph -I really loved it...

And Phil, No, I was not thinking about Adam & Eve when I said that- they're not even near to my thoughts..LOL... I was thinking about myself. and what I meant is that when I was a small girl there was this natural innocence I used to find in me as life wasn't weighty with awareness & knowledge so it was much easier to let myself be a fool - it was just so spontaneous. But as we grow in knowledge and awareness we kind of leave that spontaneity somewhere behind and most often without our knowledge. And so we kind of become more aware not let our guard down enough to let the fool come out. Atleast that's how things're with me now so I think I've relearn to play with the fool again...!!

Monday 2 April 2007 - 02:29AM (CDT)

Announcement - Time Travel Conference Venues

Tale of Time Travel Debate from Quingland and the Sony Sponsored Concert

As some of you will know by now I’m a Quindo; a cousin of the dodo.

Like the dodos, we once lived on an island in the middle of the Quacific Ocean. Actually, we still do live on that island - it’s called Quingland. Also, like the dodos we are an extinct species, and if you haven’t yet worked it out by now then I shall tell you that I’m a dead quindo, well, at least from the perspective of the four dimensions of which you mortal humans are familiar.

Quindos can’t fly although our earlier ancestors from the first four dimensional world could. We can however walk, and we can walk through space and time, just as you mortals can walk on earth with your two feet.

My name is Quindo, although that might seem obvious to you since I am a quindo after all, I have to also tell you that we are not all called Quindo here. That would be very silly since it would get quite confusing if we all had the same name. It just happens that I was given that name. I’m the leader of a revolution and here we call it the Qu’ove Revolution.

I live in the fifth dimension. The number five is quite important to us here. Quindology is a subject we take very seriously – the study of fives. I suppose that might be where we get our name quindo from, who knows?

The fifth dimension we live in is interspersed with the first four dimensions. You cannot see our fifth dimension because it’s kind of like very small and all wrapped up in itself. I’d probably confuse you even more, if I told you that there are another five dimensions like ours. These are all spatial dimensions. Then there’s an eleventh dimension, but hey, I don’t want to lose you with confusion…

Oh… did I mention the 12th dimension? Oh I’d better not just now.

We quindos are currently having a great debate among ourselves about whether we should pass on our recently developed technology on time travel to you mortals in the lower four dimensional world. One of our participants of this debate is a quindo called Albert. Once, he told us, that he was a very well known human physicist, and he developed some theories about gravity. He said among them he had a Special one. I don’t know if it’s relative to our discussion or not about time travel but he seems to like wrapping up the first three dimensions with the fourth one of time and calling it space-time! Albert says we shouldn’t introduce time-travel to the mortal world because he says most mortals would not understand the implications of what they could do with it.

We are holding several time travel technology conferences to discuss this extremely important topic and we hope to reach a satisfactory resolution soon. I ought to tell you, my dear mortals that I’m on your side and I will be voting in favour of introducing time travel technology to our dear mankind mortals. Another of my quindo friends here is called Elvis. He’s on our side too! Elvis said he used to be a King when he lived as a human mortal. He said he was a kind of revolutionary leader and good with music. Elvis says the idea to introduce time-travel technology ‘rocks’!

As the leader of the Qu’ove Revolution, I have been given the privilege of setting the venues and their times for the conferences. In the final conference we have decided to have the participation of our mortal friends and provided they are present to witness the voting and the voting is in our favour then we can proceed to introduce our technology to the lower four dimensional world of mortals. Exciting eh!

Right so here are the venues and times as follows:

First conference:

Venue: Mauritius in the Pacific Ocean, Time: Wednesday 16th February 1681, 4:30 pm (PCT)

After the conference there will be tea and biscuits and we can sit to watch ‘The shooting of the Last One’!

Second conference:

Venue: 112 Mercer Street, Princeton. Time: Friday 19th March 1948, 5:00 pm (EST)

After the conference there will be coffee and cake and we can sit and watch a duo-violin concert of some Mozart played by Albert and Albert. I hear it’s going to be screeching stuff!

Third conference:

Venue: Wembley Stadium, London. Time: Saturday 30th July 1966, 1 pm (GMT)

After the conference there will be beer and hot dogs served and we can watch a football match. It’s going to be very exciting… we will be using our time-travel technology for action replays… apparently we are going to need it!

Fourth conference:

Venue: Moon, in the southern sea of tranquility about 20 km (12 mi) southwest of the crater Sabine D. Date: Saturday 20th July 1969, 6 pm (UTC)

After the conference there will be saline solutions served in foil bags and liquidized food. At approximately 8.10 PM (UTC) we will sit on the edge of one the craters to watch some men land on the Moon for the first time in their history. Neil will be doing a speech about footsteps and giant leaps. Buzz ‘Lightyear’ will be performing the Sacrament of Holy Communion. Please take care not to step in front of the camera view during their filming session otherwise viewers on earth might get confused and think they are watching an episode of the Clangers.

Fifth conference:

The venue for the final and most important conference: Quingland’s National Conference Centre, Quingshire County, Quingland, Quacific Ocean. Time: Saturday 31st August 2097. This will be an all day conference beginning at 9:00 AM (QST) mainly because we have to allow time for our mortal friends who will be attending to witness the vote to enjoy their stay here on our beautiful island. They will be traveling to Quingland the evening before and staying at our 5 star Grand Quingland Hotel. We will close the debate at midday and commence voting immediately using the buttons provided in the armrest of our chairs. Now then, Now then… you can trust me that our chairs are better than the one Jimmy Fix-It used to sit in 120 years earlier. The voting results will be announced at 2:00 PM (QST). Afterwards, in the event of a ‘Yes’ outcome we will have an astronomically sized fireworks display for our celebrations and we’ll all participate in the game of Sony’s Wipeout 2097 and blast each other to smithereens on our ultra large 150m Sony HD Flat Screen with our Quake Disruptors. Live bands will be performing music from the 1990’s era. Believe me; it’s going to be Mega Cool! However, in the event of a ‘No’ outcome, then I’ve decided to tone down the celebrations with a live screening of the 100th anniversary memorial service of Princess Diana’s death from Buckingham Palace in London. This is going to be filmed globally (well, I know as I’ve already seen it and I can tell you a little secret; Elton John’s adopted son is going to be playing Candle in the Wind).

A message to my fellow quindos: please no cheating by traveling ahead of time to find out what the outcome will be and then going back in attempt to change the outcome to your desired choice. Such activity is not acceptable and time-trespassers will be severely dealt with and prosecuted accordingly. Maximum punishment by the Quinglish Courts is transportation to Mauritius in the year 1575 AD and left there without access to our precious time-travel technology. You’ve been warned!

Finally, a message to my dear mortal compatriots, please, please, please be sure to turn up for this fifth and final conference. If you don’t think you’ll be alive at the time of the conference, then don’t worry, you can attend in the fifth dimension, but at least tell your children and grandchildren about my announcement about the possibility to introduce this time-travel technology to the four-dimensional world of mortals in 2097 because mortals must be there - I was given this instruction from the 12^th dimension you know.

Incidentally, should we succeed in being allowed to introduce our fabulous time-travel technology, then please be aware that implementing it we believe will be a staged process that will take approximately 150 years. It depends on who will volunteer for reincarnation to the four-dimensional world at the time and their capability to understand string theory at its highest levels of development. Sorry to disappoint you guys but hey it’s not a perfect world is it!

© Qu'ove Revolution 2007

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• Shira

Oh! Oh! Sign me up!

Also, if you happen to speak to the Doctor, ask him to wear his 9th face. I'm sort of smitten with that one. Thanks.

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 09:22AM (CDT)

• Phil-…

Shira; oh yes we love his 9th face too and quite often wears it at our get togethers. I've signed you as the first one on the list. Thank you!

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 02:35PM (GMT)

• Anonymous

Wow, that's amazing, it's so high brow it's untrue! I felt like i had a phd in astrophysics by the time i'd finished reading it. I'm very impressed, and like shira, you can sign me up, particularly for the 5th conference, i'm very interested to see what Elton & David's adopted son will look like (will he have any hair???) and Princess Di has always been my queen of hearts! Looking forward to the next big read! Zelda :0) p.s. why does my photo not show up on here? Am i doing something wrong?

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 09:12AM (PDT)

• Julie

Can I come please Philo.

The number 5 is important to me - it's my favourite bus. I like tea, biscuits, coffee, cake and hotdogs but can I have lager please instead of beer? Sorry about this special request. I know it's highly irregular.

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 05:38PM (BST)

• Phil-…

Hi Zelda; thanks for dropping by! Really glad you enjoyed it. It's just the kind of uplift I need. Elton's adopted son, they called him Garibaldi... I think you probably set your photo to appear only in the 5th dimension. I'm sure another look at your profile will sort that out. ;-)

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 04:57PM (GMT)

• Phil-…

Hey Julie! Thank you for popping by! That's cool your favourite bus being number 5! I've jotted you down for a special brew of Quingland's finest lager brew and your on the list for premium row seats. You'll love it!

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 05:02PM (GMT)

• Julie

Ta Philosophical. Yeah the 5 - Nottingham to Derby. But who would want to go to Derby anyway? Hope you're English or you won't get that. Probably won't anyway.

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 07:13PM (BST)

• Kim

I hope I'm not to late to be included...sign me up please. I want to attend anything that Elvis is attending....in it's entirety. I'm packing my bags as I type this!

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 03:08PM (EDT)

• moonl…

Hi Phil, thanks for inviting me to the conferences, I do want to see Albert again.....you know I have a weakness for crazy hair.....I do promise this time that I won't be doing shadow puppets on the moon, at least where the tv cameras can record them......

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 09:08PM (CDT)

• Phil-…

Derby? erm... I did live in a place called Glossop once, that was in Derbyshire, but Derby?... no, sorry Julie don't recall ever having heard of that place.

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 04:51AM (GMT)

• Phil-…

Kim! So glad you're signing up too. You'll love it. Elvis will be joining in with the live bands playing the 90's stuff. Just imagine... a 50's & 90's mix! The whole world's gonna be rockin'

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 05:03AM (GMT)

• Sai

i will be watching from the mountains. once i officially move, i have no desire to leave my Hermit'age lifestyle. i will be writing books about life, love, syndromes which shouldn't be allowed to get in the way of love, sadness, hatred, loneliness, the what if's, the what could've beens, the should haves, the i want more from my relationship and the 12 steps to get it, the developing big balls to selfEsteem, and once every now and then i will write in my Sai series.

i plan on having a hellacious satellite in order 2 connect with u through....

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 01:10AM (CDT)

• Phil-…

Donna; provided the 112 Mercer Street conference goes well and everbody approves of the 'Duo Alberts' screeching violin duo, then 'crazy hair' will be invited to perform at the live celebration concert in Quingland along with Nigel Kennedy and Vanessa May. Dear Sis, I'm just sooooo excited...

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 06:24AM (GMT)

• Phil-…

Sai, to her ladyship's special request we have the most stunning mountains near Quingland's National Conference Centre (QNCC) here you can continue your hermitage lifestyle during your stay in Quingland. The crisp and crystal clean Quinglish air will permit excellent sound-travel of the 'live' atmosphere and music right to your cave! You'll have a fantastic view of the astonomical fireworks display from those mountains believe me! Our Quindo-synchronised Satellite Technology will ensure that you get the best quality picture on your flatscreen TV which we will have installed especially for you in your cave. Sai, I'm confident you'll have the most Wonderful experience up there all alone in those mountains... and I have every confidence it will instill the most imaginative inspirations for your writing.

Tch... the things I have to do to please these mere mortals!

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 06:36AM (GMT)

• Ann (…

hahahaha... this is awesome... I'll see you there (it'd be great to see all of your fellow quindos.... hahahahaha)

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 05:52PM (CEST)

• Roo

Last time I was at one of these things those two blokes from The Time Tunnel turned up and started a fight. What is it with those two anyway? They invent a time machine and then use it to voyage into the past and punch the living daylights out of great historical figures.

Anyway, I've set the temporal co-ordinates so you can expect my TARDIS to materialize around tea time (fish and chips for me, mate - lots of salt and vinegar).

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 01:21PM (EDT)

• Roo

PS We've reached the highest stage of development with String Theory and it's a dead end. Serves those scientists right for nickin' their ideas from old Superman comics!

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 01:24PM (EDT)

• Lady
  

I've already told you I'm ready for this - just let me know when to start
:-)

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 11:47PM (CDT)

• Sai

The menacing sides of behavior are always in attendance, just as daylight forever casts a shadow. When the happiness is brightest, the behavior is deepest. When mortals discover their secreted manners, there is a control, a therapeutic sovereignty, and a resourceful release. Carl Jung unlocked mortals to this design, and the Reflection of oneself wants to get involved in the curiosity of inspired expression.

The Outline of Darkness emits her silhouette across a mortal’s course for three reasons. For one, mortals maintain repulsive bits of their behavior deep within the caverns of their soul. They face apprehension of what they may be capable of, who they really are, and what others might assume about the sides that humanity says are objectionably undesired. Independence and muscle are approximately around the bend when the Outline of Darkness sheds her light.

Secondly, the anxiety of the mortal circumstance is an image for inspired expression. Ingenuity repeatedly comes easier in intricate epochs. The outline knows and motivates mortal’s inventive air through unleashed passion and tenderness, alchemized to magnificence.

And third, originality has been depicted as an eminence close to foolishness. Although many artists and writers have led and unbalanced life, this is not a prerequisite for creativity. Nonetheless, to be open to our peculiarites, idiosyncrasies, and distinctively unconventional adaptation of life can offer us a guide for our uniqueness.

Friday 30 March 2007 - 02:04AM (CDT)

• Blue …

i think She was trying 2 sai with the Accomodations in which you have promised that you can provide for her in the Mountains of Quingland, that she will be in attendance... However, i believe she was trying to explain why she has the need 2 remain inside her Hermit'ness wai of Life...

She is a mere NORMAL NonConformist!!!!

Friday 30 March 2007 - 02:09AM (CDT)

• Lapis…

ok

Friday 30 March 2007 - 03:23PM (PDT)

Oh What a Magnificent Marvel this Marble is!

EARTHLY THOUGHTS FOR THE DAY

Psalm 24:1 KJV

The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.

The point is; in the forty years of living I’ve done so far, I’ve visited 22 nations of this planet, I have experienced several cultures and races, sampled the delights of all kinds of foods, seen all kinds of terrains and countryside and lived in different weathers, I’ve met and got to know ordinary people rich and poor, I’ve seen some of the different religious faiths and philosophies – And yet I still observe that the fundamental nature of humanity is the same wherever I go and that we can have every reason to have hope for mankind’s destiny. We can get along with one another, we can work together, we can share in the abundance of the fruits of the earth, we can build civilizations of harmony and peace, we can create families of love and care, we can learn from others and educate others, and we can explore and delve deeper into the mysteries of life and creation.

We can love and respect this Magnificent Marvel of a Marble and we can share that love and respect for the planet with others.

© Qu'ove Revolution 2007

Above added: Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 6:15 AM (GMT)

Warning: Worrying Kills

“We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.” ¹

Warning: Earth Kills

“Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that Earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody’s mom in that she knows what’s best for us. But if we look at the historical record – Kratatoa, Mount Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages – you have to ask yourself: whose side is she on, anyway?” ²

Warning: Stupidity & Folly Kills

And when the Great British Empire was in her height of power and ruling much of the earth an Irish-American orator William Bourke Cockran, who profoundly influenced the great Winston Churchill, said on July 15 1903 at the Liberal Club in London:

Your free trade system makes the whole industrial life of the world one vast scheme of cooperation for your benefit. At this moment, in every quarter of the globe, forces are at work to supply your necessities and improve your condition. As I speak, men are tending flocks on Australian fields and shearing wool which will clothe you during the coming winter. On western lands, men are reaping grain to supply your daily bread. In mines deep underground, men are swinging pickaxes and shovels to wrest from the bosom of the Earth the ores essential to the efficiency of your industry. Under tropical skies, hands are gathering, from bending boughs, luscious fruits which in a few days will be offered for your consumption in the streets of London. Over shining rails, locomotives are drawing trains, on heaving surges, sailors are piloting barks, through arid deserts Arabs are guiding caravans, all charged with the fruits of industry to be placed here freely at your feet. You alone, among all the peoples of the Earth, encourage this gracious tribute and enjoy its full benefit, for here alone it is received freely, without imposition, restriction or tax, while everywhere else, barriers are raised against it by stupidity and folly.³

He is also well known for the following famous quotations:

“Our earth is but a small star in a great universe. Yet of it we can make, if we choose, a planet unvexed by war, untroubled by hunger or fear, undivided by senseless distinctions of race, color or theory.”

“There is enough for all. The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace.”

Warning: Lethargy kills

“The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.” ⁴

“Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.” ⁵

Warning: Ignorance Kills:

“How far must suffering and misery go before we see that even in the day of vast cities and powerful machines, the good Earth is our mother and that if we destroy her, we destroy ourselves” ⁶

1. Lewis Thomas
2. Barbara Ehrenreich
3. William Bourke Cockran
4. Albert Einstein
5. Ayn Rand
6. Paul Bigelow Sears

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• Sai

i am sure there is a point to be made inside all of this knowledge, but i didn't see it. which i did wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. i have been overcome with tears of the disease i possess which happens to be called Loser'itis.

okai, so i am having a pity dai for myself. i know exactly what i believe i deserve but because i have my very own Coupled life in which i live, i am not allowed certain things to sai to the world at hand. which leaves me quite stifled at times. i need so much of what i dont get and largely possible i will never get. i know there is the option of moving on... i am Not sure what stops me!

Tuesday 27 March 2007 - 01:25PM (CDT)

• Phil-…

Ok, I've added my point now.

I've sent a message to you replying on the other things ;-)

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 07:20AM (GMT)

• Lady …

A very nice read and these're quite valid concerns though but I'm a bit SCARED seeing a lots of "Warnings" and not even a "Hope" yet :-)!! Do we still have one hope ? And if so, how to achieve that?

According to Bible, the Earth indeed belongs to God and so does everything but the ruler of this Earth is also the devil and to make it even worse God has given us a "Free Will" so that whatever we'll choose, we'll make our choices NOT out of obligations but out of truth and love - the truth that lies in the core of our human desire.This truth may or may not always be good but it has to be truth and it's always up to us- the humans to persue it or not.And if we do believe there is a God then we also have to accept that this is how he has designed things for us. I heard a friend once told me - "life happens but we make choices" and I couldn't agree more. So I think yes, there is still a hope and as you've said - we humans are fundamentally quite simillar beyond our these so called differences so I think it's time we rely upon these similaritise to realize this "Hope" and make wise choices to save this Planet.

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 03:32AM (CDT)

• [dele…

I think your warnings are good points, well made. I also put a blog up in my series on the Cosmos, and noted, like you that the Earth is far from an indestructible, eternal entity, rather it is a fragile garden, a tiny oasis between the unbearable heat of the sun and the unthinkable and absolute cold (-273 C) of the interstellar medium. As such, we should cherish it while we are able.

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 09:58AM (PDT)

• Sai

ok i am prepared 2 B blasted, but probbly won't since u have posted a new blog post. i still haven't read anything past u eating all kinds of foods inside u'r 22nations. which by the wai, is an awesome feat, even if it wasnt meant as a feat...

my first post is 2 the LadyBirdBug or whatever i forgot...

okay, yada yada!
when i read Phil's stuff... i tend to see wai down deep past the pHilosophical'ness than the average John 3:16.

and i think that is where Phil tries to take us! we as, once, godFearin' adults know the whys and the whats of the Bible, but it is the Toes in which we might stepOn wai further past the Logical EveryDai thinking in which I think Phil tries to Touch upon!

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 06:20PM (CDT)

• Lihsa

Your blogs are very good! You are quite bright and a bit intimidating for such a furry little bird. . . :)

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 09:28PM (CDT)

• Lady …

Right Saige, as I've said earlier, Phil's blog is a very good read and indeed gives lots of food to reflect such as:
1.where are we now ?
2.and where are we heading to ?
3.and "why" ?
And finally is it really worth for us to persue it especially when we take stock of the price we've to pay ??

I got Phil's point though - he stareted off with a philosophical note leading us through practicality to a very rational question which needs an immediate attention today. and I know what he is trying imply is that it's time we shouldn't ignore it any further if we really intend to save our planet.

In my earlier post I said something about "choices" and yes, as humans we do have a choice though which is entirely ours and eventually it's up to us to decide whether to follow it or not - whether we should step on those toes or not...!!

By the way I'm just "LadyBird" & there is no "Bug" there with me ;-)

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 09:43PM (CDT)

• Lady …

I think it's time I better put my REAL picture here otherwise some people are thinking I'm little & worse yet "Furry"..LOL..

Wednesday 28 March 2007 - 11:16PM (CDT)

• Phil-…

I thank you all for your comments and for sharing them here! I really appreciate them a great deal. I think you got the point of my message and that's good!

Although it might have been subtle, the underlying message here was one of expressing my belief that there is hope. I have faith in humanity and her ability to come together and learn to love this earth and provide it with the care that she deserves. It is hope that motivates us to achieve greater things for mankind.

I actually think that the earth is much more rugged than we give it credit for. My concern is not so much with the earth but more the harm we will do to our own human race because of our careless ways. It's highly unlikely but the worse we could do is wipe ourselves out completely. If that happened, the earth would possibly have no choice but to wait several hundred million years for another, hopefully more considerate species to evolve and look after the beautiful planet. That is why I chose to express my message with a set of warnings.

Thursday 29 March 2007 - 06:10PM (GMT)

Musical Harmony of Five Strings makes Mmmmmm

While I was thinking about my BIG toe (Theory of Everything) I came across some interesting transcripts. Three of them in fact and they belong to a three hour presentation that can be watched on the internet called the “The Elegant Universe”.

If you’re into big grand theories, but don’t want to worry too much about the actual mathematics involved, then I can only highly recommend it. Below are the three links to the entire three hour transcript of the presentation.

Hour 1: Einstein's Dream
Hour 2: String's The Thing
Hour 3: Welcome to the 11th Dimension

It’s Magnificent… Miraculous… Massive… Mysterious… Mother of all theories… My World Wonderfully turned upside… Whacky… Wicked… Wittenly Written… just like Wowwwwwwwww! Einstein once said that he only came to realizing his theory of relativity when he was playing the violin. String theory was first conceived about a decade after Einstein’s death.

To think that the five strings of the violin are like the five string theories makes musical harmony of the entire universe.

Here is a small extract from the final part of the program.

BRIAN GREENE: In 1995, string theorists from all over the world gathered at the University of Southern California for their annual conference. Ed Witten showed up at Strings 95 and rocked their world.

EDWARD WITTEN (Institute for Advanced Study): I was really trying to think of something that would be significant for the occasion. And actually, since five string theories was too many, I thought I would try to get rid of some of them.

BRIAN GREENE: To solve the problem, Witten constructed a spectacular new way of looking at string theory.

JOSEPH POLCHINSKI: Ed announced that he had thought about it, and moreover, he had solved it. He was going to tell us the solution to every string theory in every dimension, which was an enormous claim, but coming from Ed it was not so surprising.

BRIAN GREENE: The atmosphere was electric because, all of a sudden, string theory, which had been going through a kind of doldrums, was given an incredible boost, a shot in the arm.

LEONARD SUSSKIND (Stanford University): Ed Witten gave his famous lecture. And he said a couple of words that got me interested...and for the rest of the lecture...I got hooked up on the first few words that he said, and completely missed the point of his lecture.

NATHAN SEIBERG (Institute for Advanced Study): I remember I had to give the talk after him, and I was kind of embarrassed to.

JOSEPH LYKKEN: Ed Witten just blew everybody away.

BRIAN GREENE: Ed Witten blew everybody away because he provided a completely new perspective on string theory. From this point of view, we could see that there weren't really five different theories. Like reflections in a wall of mirrors, what we thought were five theories turned out to be just five different ways of looking at the same thing. String theory was unified at last.

Witten's work sparked a breakthrough so revolutionary that it was given it's own name, "M-theory," although no one really knows what the M stands for.

S. JAMES GATES, JR.: Aah, what is the M for?

BURT OVRUT: M-theory.

STEVEN WEINBERG (University of Texas at Austin): M-theory.

DAVID GROSS: M-theory.

JOSEPH LYKKEN: M-theory.

GARY HOROWITZ (Institute for Advanced Study): The M-theory.

STEVEN WEINBERG: M-theory is a theory...

BURT OVRUT: I don't actually know what the M stands for.

STEVEN WEINBERG: Well, the M has...

BURT OVRUT: I've heard many descriptions.

STEVEN WEINBERG: Mystery theory, magic theory...

JOSEPH LYKKEN: It's the Mother theory.

STEVEN WEINBERG: Matrix theory.

LEONARD SUSSKIND: Monstrous theory? I don't know what it...I don't know what Ed meant.

EDWARD WITTEN: M stands for magic, mystery or matrix, according to taste.

SHELDON LEE GLASHOW: I suspect that the "M" is an upside down "W" for "Witten."

Comments from Yahoo 360

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• Kim

I've always had a fascination with the violin.. It is the one instrument I still wish I could play....beautifully elloquent! Great post...

Saturday 24 March 2007 - 08:48PM (EDT)

• Phil-…

Thanks Kim. When the violin is played well it produces some of the most amazing sounds. It's a fascinating instrument and I do wished I had been born with a musical talent. Still, nevermind, maybe next time in another life or another dimension I can play with the strings of life.

Sunday 25 March 2007 - 04:36AM (GMT)

• Sai

i have not listened yet, I promise... I will..

but right now i am thinking that strings R not the issue...
missing the guided light of your moon
has you grasping for Straws!!!!

Sunday 25 March 2007 - 12:41AM (CDT)

Mind your P&Qs: A Test of Faith.

Here I will give you some insight into what goes on in the Mind of Phil and his Quirky Quartz

Q: So Phil, do you believe in God?

P: Well there’s gotta be summit out there. I mean summit doesna cum outta nuffin does it?

Q: It seems that is what some atheists believe.

P: I know! Can ya baleeve it! I aff t’admire t’enormuss fayth t’em’atheists av fer believin wer’all made frum nuffin!

Q: Some might call it blind faith. They say you can’t see ‘nothing’ so to put your faith in the idea that from nothing came something is a very blind thing to do.

P: Them’athiest boffins says they proved it scientifically wiv a bit a maffs n all!

Q: Yes, they have a concept called symmetry and shown that all laws of physics are based on symmetries.

P: Theyze relly stoopid then! They orta luk at’em selves in t’mirror like, then they’ll knows wot symmetry is!

Q: Hmmm, one of these guys is a man called Victor Stenger, he’s written several books claiming that science clearly shows that there is no God. He says that out of the void of emptiness came the universe we know today, one full of mass and energy. He explains that something is more stable than nothing, so nothing had to turn into something. I know that’s it’s true that all things in the known universe behaves naturally in the direction from instability to stability.

P: An there wuz ah thinkin I’m men’ally unstable. Ah got sum ’ope then that ah gonna get more stable wen I’m alder. Am confuze cuz ah thot ah wuz gettin worse!

Q: Only, I learned later that his definition of nothing doesn’t actually mean nothing in the absolute sense. In his book “Has Science found God?” he explains very well the concept of symmetry and how it applies to all the well known laws of physics. He explains the concept of the void as best as he can in terms of empirical physics and readily admits that if we were to talk about nothing as “no” thing then it has no properties, but what he talks of as the ‘void’ he explains that it has the same symmetrical laws that also applies to the laws of physics.

P: An so wot yer sayin is: t’nuffin state in t’sense ov uh void is unstable n cun only b’cum sumfin cuz its more stable.

Q: Precisely Phil. He uses this natural symmetry concept to illustrate that you don’t need God as a component ‘force’ to have made the orderly universe because the creation of ‘order’ is a totally natural progression supported by all the known laws of physics and are based on symmetry. I enjoyed reading about this symmetry concept and for once I found it a concept that is not so difficult to understand.

P: Don ya jus luv uh genius oo explains thins’ n a way ah cun’understand. T’is brilliano!

Q: Yes only it’s not so ‘brilliano’ as you put it! Stenger uses the symmetry concept to dismiss the idea that there is a God. In my view, he could be right to the point that it removes certain conceptions of how God has created the universe. In fact, he is presenting very logical and convincing arguments to show what God is not. I would go as far to suggest that what he has shown might actually be a physical attribute of God – that is all things material within the known physical universe behave and happen naturally according to the laws of physics.

P: OMG Q! Ya deserve uh Nobel Prize fa realizin that!

Q: Let’s not go that far! I think Stenger’s books do make very worthwhile reading and he is capable of presenting intelligent and convincing arguments to dispel many a myth of Judeo-Christian-Islamic concepts of God along with the many ‘dreamed up’ and non-scientific theories that attempt to explain alternative medicine and the existence of psi and so on. But he’s wrong if he is trying to dismiss the whole caboodle of God. What he has done is shown that physical laws can never ever be used to prove the existence of the ‘supernatural’ or the metaphysical because all physical phenomena occur only according to the natural order of things. The metaphysical and the supernatural can never ever be reproduced in a scientific laboratory ever.

P: Ya goin by t’argument that Science n God don’t mix ain’t ya!

Q: And never the twain shall they meet! So Phil, do you believe in God?

P: Hey Q! Is this menna be uh test ov ma fayth?

Comments from Yahoo 360

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• moonl…

Nice discussion, thanks Phil!

Thursday 22 March 2007 - 08:40AM (CDT)

• Moon

Zezz..., u r like a gecko with full of colours :-P (will explain by request later). Anyway - good blog my dear! X

Thursday 22 March 2007 - 02:07PM (GMT)

• Roo

You should talk to yourself more often, it's very enjoyable.

Thursday 22 March 2007 - 02:15PM (EDT)

• Phil-…

Athiests are an irony. Without them we would not know some of what we know today. I say "Thank God for Athiests!"

I am also humoured by athiests. It's like they strip a piece of bark off the tree and they say this bark does not exist.

Sunday 25 March 2007 - 04:45AM (GMT)