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Category Archives: UNIVERSES
Universes are comprised of thoughts, ideas, dreams, illusions, delusions, which may also include stars, space, time, energy and objects. Or not. These are the universes of the author Lawrence R. Spencer, and others for whom he has an affinity.
NASA DISCOVERS MICKEY MECURY MOUSE
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The recent “scientific discovery” by NASA of an alleged Mickey Mouse Face on the planet Mercury given birth to a litter of “scientific theories” to explain the phenomena. Here are a few of my personal favorites:
1) The Mickey Mouse “face” is proof that Douglas Adams book, “The Hitchhikers Guide to The Universe” was correct in saying that mice are the Creators of The Universe. Obviously, these Mighty Mouse Gods left an imprint on themselves on the surface of Mercury so that Mankind could discover that Humanity was created by alien mice from space.
2) Disney Corporation has landed on Mercury and is laying the foundations for a new Disney World theme park called “Mercury Mouse House” as a speculative real estate investment funded by Wall Street Bankers and endorsed by Congress in anticipation of the potential colonization of that planet by humans.
3) NASA is making another lame attempt at discrediting the “face of Mars” by coming up with this kind of nonsense.
4) NASA employees don’t really have any good excuse to collect a paycheck.
5) The “Mickey Face” is undeniable evidence that people will believe anything they are told by “the authorities” or “scientists”.
6) This Mickey Mouse evidence proves the “Theory of Human Stupidity” which states “THE AVERAGE HUMAN IS REALLY STUPID. THE REST ARE EVEN MORE STUPIDER THAN THEM.”
AYN RAND INTERVIEW
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Many videotapes of Johnny Carson’s 1960s episodes were lost in the fire of NBC’s archives, but at least part of Ayn Rand’s first appearance on The Tonight Show (she was on three times over the years, clearly Carson was a fan) has survived and has been posted on YouTube. Apparently, Carson snubbed his other guests that evening and kept Rand on for the entire 90 minute show. Topics include Objectivism, rationality, raising children, religion, the military draft and the Vietnam War. (via Dangerous Minds)
Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinov’yevna Rosenbaum, February 2 1905 – March 6, 1982) was a Russian-American novelist, philosopher,playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.
Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. She worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood and had a play produced on Broadway in 1935–1936. After two early novels that were initially less successful, she achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead. In 1957, she published her best-known work, the philosophical novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in 1982.
Rand advocated reason as the only means of acquiring knowledge and rejected all forms of faith and religion. She supported rational and ethical egoism, and rejected ethical altruism. In politics, she condemned the initiation of force as immoral and opposed all forms of collectivism and statism, instead supporting laissez-faire capitalism, which she believed was the only social system that protected individual rights. She promoted romantic realism in art. She was sharply critical of the philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her besides Aristotle.
Rand’s fiction was poorly received by many literary critics, and academia generally ignored or rejected her philosophy. The Objectivist movement attempts to spread her ideas, both to the public and in academic settings.She is a major influence among libertarians and American conservatives. (Wikipedia.org)
EVIL GOOD PEOPLE
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GOOD PEOPLE DO GOOD THINGS.
EVIL PEOPLE DO EVIL THINGS.
BUT, FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO DO EVIL THINGS TAKES FEAR INSTILLED BY RELIGION OR POLITICS, OR BOTH.
MEANWHILE…ANOTHER UNIVERSE
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Here is an intimate exploration of alien lives in a universe of spectacularly colorful strangeness…no less bizarre than our own… marine animals like corals and starfish at high magnification through the time lapse film. This is an infinitesimal part of the world in which we live and of which we should take better care. But, we must first be aware that it exists.
…meanwhile… from Sandro Bocci on Vimeo.