February 25, 2012 at 9:45 am
· Filed under Get organized
A quote from the biography of Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson. He writes about the parody that Guy Kawasaki had published about Apple buying Next and making Jobs its CEO, about 2 years before this really happened at Apple.
Isaacson first describes Kawasaki’s spoofed press release about the takeover. And then he writes:
But reality has an odd habit of catching up with satire
How true!
In the country I live in, the polical party the PVV is in fact the reality and the so called ‘Tegenpartij‘ was the satire.
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February 4, 2012 at 8:20 am
· Filed under Have faith
Alain de Botton On Religion for Atheists from The School of Life on Vimeo.
Today, I watched this ‘sermon’ of Alain de Botton, where he teaches us to look at the good things we can learn from religions, even if we do not believe in God. This cermon was an initiative of The School Of Life which I find a very interesting discovery on the web.
Around the beginning of this school year, I attended to a presentation from the teacher of my 10 years old son about the subjects that will be a part of this years curriculum. When I asked them: “What are you going to teach the children about religion?” the teacher replied that this was a secular, public school and that for that reason, they did not teach them a lot about the different religions. I think that even if you are not a believer in all the dogmas of a religion, that does not mean that you cannot learn from the scriptures or teachings of that church. Even if you do not believe in God at all, there is still a lot to learn from religious thought, ceremonies, art and spirituality. We should teach our children that, of all the main religions, also on the so called secular schools.
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