You are no liars, I am a liar.
Have you begun to question the rules of this game,
reflect on your actions and take some of the blame.
Words by Victor Kahn, leading you straight to The Great Illusion, a wonderful place to experience another reality.
Thoughts are like mirrors ~ just slightly bizarre,
and it all comes from wishing each night on a star.
[Quotes taken from “The Tiger Within” by Victor Kahn with illustrations by Jim Warren.]
No time to lose, you know. We are determined to waste no time. Time is precious. We hardly have got the time to tell someone that we do not have enough time. Time flies. Though, we’ll let others know when we have more free time. If time wasn’t getting shorter as time goes by.
“I have no time, therefore I am.”
How much time does it take to say someone has too much time on her or his hands? Can we afford it? I am afraid, time won’t tell.
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Words ought not to be trusted – you can never be sure if they mean what they say.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
Let’s assume that when people say something they generally mean something different. Then, the question “What do you mean?” generally makes no sense at all.
If you think that some people at least sometimes do say what they mean, well, I anyway do understand something different from what they say let alone what they mean.
So, what does it mean when someone says that she or he makes a lot of use of dictionaries and thesauruses searching for word origins? Like Dave Pollard just wrote? Or like half of my own blog?
What does it mean if someone is especially picky about words, if we try to be precise, if we try to avoid obfuscation and ambiguity, and if we moreover foster meaning with references?
Experts of wording driving away from their audience, burying augury of knowledge in wisdom, the paradox of communication, blatant honesty about lying.
Of course, this makes sense to us, anyway.
just because this is “Art” doesn’t mean anyone fucking cares.
I do not care. I do not care that no one cares. I do not care about a piece of “Art” telling me that I possibly do not care. What does it mean to take no care? Ignore me! If I do not care that I do not care I could just as well care about it. … And, yet, we have not talked about what “Art” means, nor why anyone fucking should care or why anyone would want to care at all.
At the beginning of the film “United 93” it says
It’s time.
It’s time. This is what the crusaders of ecology and sustainability keep telling us, too.
It’s time that we ask what is time.
Never forget.
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The film “An Inconvenient Truth” shall come to local theaters in September 2006. What will it be? The Weisslog (weblog in German by Die Zeit) pointed to a related article by Slate Magazine:
Bigger Smash: Hurricanes cause more damage because there’s more for them to wreck. By Gregg Easterbrook, posted Tuesday, June 20, 2006
Being wrong or at least being contradicted always charmingly embraces my
confidence in being right.
There must be something about sustainability that is pretty scarily dangerous. I have seen quite many projects, institutions, lecture series, websites, forums and more, all about sustainable development, sustainability research, and human ecology, and yet they simply stopped, evaporated, ceased to exist, or got nixed.
In The core trouble of feedback, I presented a WYRIWYG questionnaire.
When I used the acronym WYRIWYG for What You Request Is What You Get, (closely following the acronym WYSIWYG) I had no idea that it’s already being used at least by John Howe, see his web site wyriwyg.com where it stands for What You Read Is What You Get. His WYRIWYG even is self-referential and alas a little lying. Very well.
Patrik Tast uses WYRIWYG as an abbreviation for What You Receive Is What You Get to describe a piece of software. And, of course, there are other variations, too, such as WYAIWYG — What You Accept Is What You Get. Got it?
