Srila Prabhupada Lecturing about Love

Happy New Year,
New Day
New Life.

Losing My Religion

Louis Armstrong La Vie En Rose

when you woke up. your eyes open. theres space first, walls come afterwards and then the colors. theres an identity meeting things again and the responses,

we’re all bubbling

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A&feature=related

 

 

Do you think more knowledge, a larger capacity for the storage of information, will lead to peace. Has the internet, the mass sharing of information closened the distance between us. Have the walls and wires been let go or are they now more relied upon to protect and house these minds and bodies from eachother?

The Simulation Argument

 

http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html

 

september, night

i was asked once how i would feel if i was not special

and to the man

and moon who was also listening i

said the sky was pulled from blue eyes

i’ve seen before the sun

in heaven

in life

in death

and see hummingbirds bloom

from trees and cherry blossoms

beside them happy they are

remembering how once

i love

and still

quell like the cosmos

breathing the intricacies of fields and clouds swaying.

i am dead.

i have seen beauty.

special is a pretend word,

along with every other one.

i don’t understand your question

questions me

my heart beat

and smile is an answering.

Relativity

It took twenty years to develop a way for people to save 10 minutes on putting on roller blades.

We are coming to believe that motion may be an illusion created by two dimensional objects moving over eachother.

The Decade of Games

This video is awesome.

“Descendents”

http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/07/descendents-stunning-animated-short.html

The video is lovely. It is about a plant that wants to get eaten by a deer-like creature because it “wants to be part of something bigger.” Whoopi’s character attempts to sabotage it. The result is surprising. An “inspirational video” this could be tagged as.

Enjoy.

In the vein of inspiration, here’s a true story about Neil Armstrong:

GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE….. ESPECIALLY SINCE IT’S A TRUE STORY.

ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG
WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.
HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, “THAT’S ONE SMALL STEP
FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,” WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.

BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK
“GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY.”

MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME
RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN
EITHER THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS.

OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE “GOOD
LUCK, MR. GORSKY” STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS
FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO ARMSTRONG.

THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL
ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION.

IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING
BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL,

WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR’S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS.

HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS.GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK
UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY.
“SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU’LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!”

TRUE STORY.

Good Advice

“One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast… a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”

— From a speech to environmentalists in Missoula, Montana in 1978 and in Colorado, which was published in High Country News in the 1970s or early 1980s under the title “Joy, Shipmates, Joy.”, as quoted in Saving Nature’s Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity (1994) by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, p. 338. (via justinthomaskay)