Posts Tagged ‘war’
The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistos (hermes the thrice great)
| Spirituality | February 1, 2008
25 views Corpus Hermeticum
This is part of one of the great esoteric texts, and is a statement of positive existence The Tablet probably first appeared in the West in editions of the psuedo-Aristotlean Secretum Secretorum which was actually a translation of the Kitab Sirr al-Asrar, a book of advice to kings which was translated into latin by Johannes Hispalensis c. 1140 and by Philip of Tripoli c...
The final speech of Chaplin’s The Great Dictator
| Words Of Inspiration | November 25, 2007
10 views I think The Great Dictator is one of Charlie Chaplins most interesting films, and this speech at the end of the film made not by the dictator but by his double the Jewish Barber, still strikes me as having deep meaning and as being as true today as in the 1940s:
“I’m sorry but I don’t want to be an Emperor – that’s not my business – I don’t wan...
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England, Euro 2008 and the germans had the right idea
| Sport | November 22, 2007
8 views I heard it say after their 1966 loss to England the Germans went back and changed things root and branch in the German game and then dominated European and world football for 25+years from the 1970 world cup onward. Players of those times also went on to be good managers too.
We always look for a scapegoat or scapegoats. This is because we are a nation of jobsworth shopkeepers when it come...
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Please Link to this site
| IT & Net | October 20, 2007
7 views Link to me and i will put up a link to you, mention my site and I will mention yours, the more the merrier because the more links the better for the search engines to scan your website or web log…in fact the better for both of us.
You can do a straight text link to http://www.jonathanspencer.net/
using blogrolling or the blogroll or link list in your website software, or just write...
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The Eve of Destruction
| Words Of Inspiration | October 14, 2007
25 views Don’t give up the spirit of power
Listening to the sounds of the 60s on the Radio this morning, I was entranced by the sense of positive and directed energy that appeared in the lyrics, music and artists of this period…we can do so much more with this legacy
These lyrics of the ‘eve of destruction’ by PF sloan encapsulate that era as do many other songs, from the B...
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Hello and welcome to the site. These are just my musing over a period of a few years as I turn on and off the internet. I have as Groucho Marx once said "worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty". My background has come via computing to theatre - both creative and technical, University, Politics, Business, Counselling/Therapy and back round to computers. I now run with my partner a healthcare business, I also offer IT consultancy and offer motivational guidance. Please leave your comments or get in touch I would like to hear from you.
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