Comments on: Laser-focus thinking of the day http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/ Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:02:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23095 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:40:56 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23095 That's not what I really mean. Must be your understanding. Fine. Live and let live anyway. Go your way and I will go mine. That’s not what I really mean. Must be your understanding. Fine. Live and let live anyway. Go your way and I will go mine.

]]> by: Bentnotesmanhisself http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23066 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 02:31:56 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23066 "Live and let live" sounds very nice until you realize it really means "ever-lowered standards for everything." “Live and let live” sounds very nice until you realize it really means “ever-lowered standards for everything.”

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23058 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:56:20 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23058 H.G. Wells (1866 to 1946) said, "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race." H.G. Wells (1866 to 1946) said, “Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.”

]]> by: Mr. Dings http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23057 Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:49:05 +0000 http://barneyquick.net/blog/2007/09/25/laser-focus-thinking-of-the-day/#comment-23057 Put your review on amazon.com when you have read it, if you would, bloggie. I am not so sure excactly what she is saying here. Equating being grown-up with dress styles, bemoaning a loss of a certain formality and civility or tolerance of Islam to the detriment of the West? My opinion is that it is all simply too diffuse these days. And wise men and women aka adults understand this. There are thousands of religions. History is history here. Are we to mount another Crusade to prove we are grown-ups? From: Big History; From the Big Bang to the Present by Cynthia Stokes Brown http://www.amazon.com/Big-History-Bang-Present/dp/1595581960/ref=pd_rhf_p_3/105-3547978-6238064 "Religions did not wither away as science grew in its power and prestige. Although secular outlooks increased in Europe and the United States, both Christianity and Islam expanded during the colonial period to lead the world in adherents by the end of the twentieth century. Religions emerged that emphasized the underlying unity of all religion, the similarity of all their messages--the Ramakrishna movement in India with its apostle Vivekananda (1863-1902) and the Bahai faith, an offshoot of Persian Shia Islam, that adopted English as its preferred language. By the end of the twentieth century, in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, fundamentalist versions of the world's religions ex[erienced a revival." "In 2002 there were estimated to be 10,000 distinct religions, with about 150 having at least 1 Million adherents. If a group of ten people represented approximately the world's religions, three would be Christians, two Muslim, two unaffilliated or atheist, one Hindu, one Buddhist, and one representing all others." Why couldn't today's American grown-up simply be tolerant? And live and let live without being criticized for being immature or weak or worse? Maybe she simply misses daddy... Put your review on amazon.com when you have read it, if you would, bloggie. I am not so sure excactly what she is saying here. Equating being grown-up with dress styles, bemoaning a loss of a certain formality and civility or tolerance of Islam to the detriment of the West? My opinion is that it is all simply too diffuse these days. And wise men and women aka adults understand this. There are thousands of religions. History is history here. Are we to mount another Crusade to prove we are grown-ups?

From: Big History; From the Big Bang to the Present by Cynthia Stokes Brown

http://www.amazon.com/Big-History-Bang-Present/dp/1595581960/ref=pd_rhf_p_3/105-3547978-6238064

“Religions did not wither away as science grew in its power and prestige. Although secular outlooks increased in Europe and the United States, both Christianity and Islam expanded during the colonial period to lead the world in adherents by the end of the twentieth century. Religions emerged that emphasized the underlying unity of all religion, the similarity of all their messages–the Ramakrishna movement in India with its apostle Vivekananda (1863-1902) and the Bahai faith, an offshoot of Persian Shia Islam, that adopted English as its preferred language. By the end of the twentieth century, in an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, fundamentalist versions of the world’s religions ex[erienced a revival.”

“In 2002 there were estimated to be 10,000 distinct religions, with about 150 having at least 1 Million adherents. If a group of ten people represented approximately the world’s religions, three would be Christians, two Muslim, two unaffilliated or atheist, one Hindu, one Buddhist, and one representing all others.”

Why couldn’t today’s American grown-up simply be tolerant? And live and let live without being criticized for being immature or weak or worse? Maybe she simply misses daddy…

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