Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said:
“It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
— Jim Jarmusch

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I just watched the documentary War Photographer by Christian Frei, a portrait of James Nachtwey.

It is a very powerful movie; it is a difficult movie, but a very true one.

Take yourself 3 minutes, and read the following text. Slowly, patiently, carefully.
That’s how Nachtwey reads it.
 

There has always been war. War is raging throughout the world at the present moment. And there is little reason to believe that war will cease to exist in the future. As man has become increasingly civilized, his means of destroying his fellow man have become ever more efficient, cruel and devastating.

I attempt to become as totally responsible to the subject as I possibly can. The act of being an outsider aiming a camera can be a violation of humanity. The only way I can justify my role is to have respect for the other person’s predicament. The extent to which I do that is the extent to which I become accepted by the other, and to that extent I can accept myself.
— James Nachtwey

(Thanks to Basti for the recommendation.)

I just stumbled upon a collection of several hundreds of proofs of god’s existence.

ARGUMENT FROM MANIFESTATIONS
(1) If you turn your head sideways and squint a little, you can see an image of a bearded face in that tortilla.
(2) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM SACRIFICIAL BLACKMAIL
(1) Jesus died for your sins.
(2) Therefore, God exists

ARGUMENT FROM STAR TREK
(1) You will be assimilated.
(2) All your salvations belong to us.
(3) Resistance is futile.
(4) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM GUITAR MASTERY
(1) Eric Clapton is God.
(2) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM SHEER WILL
(1) I DO believe in God! I DO believe in God! I do I do I do I DO believe in God!
(2) Therefore, God exists.

ARGUMENT FROM BLINDNESS (II)
(1) God is love.
(2) Love is blind.
(3) Stevie Wonder is blind.
(4) Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God.
(5) Therefore, God exists.

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“If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by the rules.”
– Paul Arden

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“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”
– Charles Darwin

“‘What a refreshing mind you have, young man,’ he said. ‘There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?’ ”
– The Marquis in “Neverwhere” by Neil Gaiman

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, “a factitious word alleged to mean ‘a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs’.”
It was coined to serve as the longest English word and is the longest word ever to appear in an English language dictionary.

“When you make love to a woman, you get revenge for all the things that defeated you in life.” (Elegy)

This is so utterly ridiculous … I actually thought it was a hoax first. You simply have to read this Email from a teacher:

“…observed one of my students with a group of other children gathered around his laptop [...] The student was showing the ability of the laptop and handing out Linux disks. After confiscating the disks I called a confrence with the student and that is how I came to discover you and your organization. Mr. Starks, I am sure you strongly believe in what you are doing but I cannot either support your efforts or allow them to happen in my classroom. At this point, I am not sure what you are doing is legal. No software is free and spreading that misconception is harmful. These children look up to adults for guidance and discipline. I will research this as time allows and I want to assure you, if you are doing anything illegal, I will pursue charges as the law allows. Mr. Starks, I along with many others tried Linux during college and I assure you, the claims you make are grossly over-stated and hinge on falsehoods. I admire your attempts in getting computers in the hands of disadvantaged people but putting linux on these machines is holding our kids back.

This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not helping these children at all. I am sure if you contacted Microsoft, they would be more than happy to supply you with copies of an older verison of Windows and that way, your computers would actually be of service to those receiving them…”

You should read the full article, as the reply of Ken Starks is very interesting as well …

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Now. You give that boy his disks back. Aaron is a brilliant kid and he’s learned more using Linux than he ever did using Windows. Those disks and their distribution are perfectly legal and even if he was “disruptive”, you cannot keep his property. I have placed a call to the AISD Superintendent and cc’d him a complete copy of your email. It looks like we will get to meet in his office when School starts again after the holiday. I am anxious to meet a person who is this uninformed and still holds a position of authority and learnedness over our children.

Oh my god … you HAVE to watch these 4 advertisement for the computer game Command & Conquer 3 … are such ads common in the US ??