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Numb The Interactive Newsletter You Never Asked For Random Acts of Uncommon Sense Much of this will be familiar to those of you who have read Echoes A note to the reader: Although many of the quotations found within these pages contain male pronouns, the ultimate message is not intended to be patriarchal. It is my sincere desire that each of you will be able to discover that the theme of these literary clips has more to do with an all-inclusive frame of reference than a gender-specific one. Begin... Let's talk about how I get back home. --from the movie, Army of Darkness By changing the way we're seeing the world. You see, you're still searching for the right piece to fix first. You don't see that all the problems simply are fragments of one single crisis—a crisis of perception. --from the movie, Mindwalk common sense. 1. Native good judgment; sound ordinary sense. 2. The set of general unexamined assumptions as distinguished from specially acquired concepts: Common sense holds that heavier bodies fall faster than lighter ones. --The American Heritage Dictionary Part of the communication problem, as we shall see, is the strangeness of what is being found... Very few people are synthesizing information being gathered in far-flung places. --Marilyn Ferguson We are always getting ready to live but never living. --Ralph Waldo Emerson Our past is not our potential. --Marilyn Ferguson Re-examine all you have been told at school or in church or in any book, dismiss what insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem. --Walt Whitman "What will people say?" In these words lies the tyranny of the world, the whole destruction of our natural disposition, the oblique vision of our minds. These four words hold sway everywhere. --Berthold Auerbach One day posterity will remember, this strange era, these strange times, when ordinary common honesty was called courage. --Yevgeny Yevtushenko For our race to reach the next true satori, for us to move to that next level of consciousness and evolution that so many of our philosophers proclaim, all facets of human endeavor must become conscious strivings for art. --Dan Simmons Is not the real business of the artist to seek for man's salvation, and by understanding his ingredients to make himself less an outlaw to himself? --Loren Eisley Every start upon an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to be successful. --Albert Schweitzer The invisible tensive straws that can save us are those of individual human integrities— in daring to steer the individual's course only by truth, strange as the realized truth may often seem— wherever and whenever the truths are evidenced to the individual— wherever they may lead, unfamiliar as the way may be. --R. Buckminster Fuller "Learn what is true in order to do what is right" is the summing up of the whole duty of man. --T.H. Huxley The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. --Antisthenes To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true. --H.L. Menkin For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are more often influenced by things that seem than by things that are. --Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with people is not that they don't know, but that they know so much that ain't so. --Josh Billings The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. --William Blake In all cases of perception, from the most basic to the most sophisticated, the meaning of the experience is recognized by the observer according to a horizon of expectation within which the experience will be expected to fall. --James Burke Perception is based, to a very large extent, on conceptual models, which are always inadequate, often incomplete, and sometimes profoundly wrong. --Lyall Watson New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common. --John Locke Common sense is judgment without reflection which is shared by an entire class, a people, a nation, or the whole human race. --Giovanni Battista Vico Judging by common sense is merely another phrase for judging by first appearance... The men who place implicit faith in their own common sense are, without any exception, the most wrong-headed and impracticable persons. --John Stewart Mill Sound English common sense—the inherited stupidity of the race. --Oscar Wilde Every creative act... involves a new innocence of perception liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. --Arthur Koestler To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old questions from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advances... --Albert Einstein ----- ----- ----- Random Acts of Uncommon Sense/The Movie (I'll eventually upload a QuickTime version) Running time: 6:23 (1) Opening theme/familiar sound --Grand Canyon (0:30) (2) Aughhhhhhhhhh --Army of Darkness (0:29) (3) Would you please rephrase the question? --Total Recall (0:30) (4) What do you think of the death penalty? --The Fisher King (1:06) (5) This ain't the way --Grand Canyon (0:23) (6) Precisely the sort of thing that no one ever believes --The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (0:05) (7) We're getting used to it --Grand Canyon (0:27) (8) All about California --Doc Hollywood (0:11) (9) How did we wind up here? --Mindwalk (0:33) (10) This man obviously needs a doctor --The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (0:26) (11) Don't tell me anything --Back to the Future (0:18) (12) I'm in the twilight zone --Doc Hollywood (0:05) (13) Let's talk about how I get back home --Army of Darkness (0:05) (14) A crisis of perception --Mindwalk (0:16) (15) All of life's riddles --Grand Canyon (0:59) Outro / Afterword |