This is one of my all-time favorites. The story is about a man who has lost all his faith and consequently decided to kill himself. However, shortly before he is about to part with our earth something trivial and yet highly emotional happens. He enters in a dream which is wonderful and authentic that after waking up he realizes that is destiny is to preach about what he has learned – the Truth.
First few seconds:
“I am a strange person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I remain as strange in their eyes as before. But now I do not resent it, they are all dear to me now, even when they laugh at me – and, indeed, it is just then that they are particularly dear to me. I could join in their laughter – not exactly at myself, but through affection for them, if I did not feel so sad as I look at them. Sad because they do not know the truth and I do know it. Oh, how hard it is to be the only one who knows the truth! But they won’t understand that. No, they won’t understand it.”
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or > > here to read a text version I found on scribd.
Exerpt: “The ancient Romans had a proverb: Money is like sea water. The more you drink, the thirstier you become.” That adage finds particular meaning today on Wall Street, which began this New Year riding a tidal wave of bonuses in a surging ocean of greed. “
Follow this link to learn more. Watch Bill Moyers Journal with some real intersting insight about Goldman Sachs, the bailout, Wall Street and the failure of a system.
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In 1960, a man by the name of Joe Kittinger rode a helium balloon into outer space, then jumped out and fell to Earth.
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Aldous Huxley, social critic and author of Brave New World, talks to Wallace about threats to freedom in the United States, overpopulation, bureaucracy, propaganda, drugs, advertising, and television. Before you start watching, may I also suggest to you one of my all-time favorite books by Aldous Huxley – The Island.
