Entropic Cogitations

Nine years ago our world changed forever.

And the next morning, all one heard in the eerie silence was the sound of active PASS devices still chirping away amidst the rubble. For a firefighter, that is the most heartbreaking sound you can hear.

My wife and I still can’t watch a 9/11 documentary without tears in our eyes.  I dare say that is the way it should be.

Never Forget this day.
It is your solemn duty to remember.

I first heard this on a Podcast by Ravi Zacharias.  Don’t stop till you read it all the way down.

Creed
by Steve Turner

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its
compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps
Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan

We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
except the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear

State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshiping his maker.

OK. I know Rob Enderle is an Apple Hating, Microsoft Shilling, ego maniacal, tin foil wearing nut. But this latest piece takes crazy to a whole another level.
If you are unfamiliar with his other classically crazy pieces, just Google his name. But this stuff is beyond crazy. To paraphrase the Macalope, this guy works in “crazy” like artists work in pastels or water colors! I sincerely hope he gets sued by Robbie Bach or someone from Microsoft for Libel – for insinuating that they are Apple “double agents” inside Microsoft. Of course, that would be the ultimate irony.  Note to Enderle: Please stay on your meds dude.  What bothers me is that people still go to him for quotes from an “analyst”.   Sheesh.

They sacrifice every day so we may live to be free.

Please take some time to remember our fallen soldiers this weekend.  And if you have Children/Grandchildren, remind them too.

I know I always put this same poem up every Memorial Day. But that is what “remembering” is about. So as long as I can keep posting I will.

In Flanders Fields

– John McCrae, May 1915

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead.
Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep,though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

To those that I have never met but I owe my life and freedom to, I can’t say anything more than Thank You.

And I promise, I will never forget.

The migration from Blogger to WordPress is now complete.  This was necessitated by the fact that Blogger was deprecating FTP publishing.  I tried the migration tool but didn’t like the way I would have to publish my blog on a sub-domain.  I decided to bite the bullet and switch to WordPress.  I use cPanel on this domain and installing WordPress was a snap using Fantastico.  The hard part (for a little while) was getting my old posts on to WordPress.  I had to eventually resort to exporting a backup of my blog from blogger and then used an online tool to convert the file to a WordPress file that I could then import.

The WordPress dashboard is very intuitive and incredibly easy to use.  I was able to download themes, set my parameters, and configure my settings with ease.  The (free) WordPress  themes have a crisp and professional look and feel that I certainly found lacking in blogger.  I am a HUGE Google fan but my First Impressions of WordPress as a publishing tool have me hooked.

I’m hoping to get back to blogging regularly and I think having easy convenient software such as WordPress certainly makes it more enticing.

Hi All,

I am migrating from blogger to WordPress.  Hopefully I will be able to get all my legacy posts back.  Stay tuned.

I don’t keep up with my blog anymore. I have often thought if I should just shelve this blog like my good friend Matt Dattilo did. But I can’t get myself to do it. The main issue of course is time. It takes time and effort to put something down on this blog even if it is just typing for a bit. It’s the organization of thoughts in your brain that takes the longest. And now with the proliferation programs like twitter and facebook, most of the “impromptu” things that people write is on these micro-blogging sites.

I guess I will continue to try to write things on this blog. Things that I believe take more than 140 characters to express. There’s not that many that read this blog anyway. But it does serve as a reminder to me as to what I was thinking years ago…

They sacrifice every day so we may live to be free.

Please take some time to remember our fallen soldiers this weekend. And if you have Children/Grandchildren, remind them too.

Photo: Courtesy Arlington National Cemetary