Good Morning Ladies & Gentlemen! Happy Wednesday Digital Neighbors & Friends! A few quotes from Madam Curie. A bit about her before pondering the quotes.
Marie Salomea Skłodowska Curie; born Maria Salomea Skłodowska, Polish: 7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a Polish and naturalized-French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and the only woman to win the Nobel Prize twice, and the only person to win the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields. Her husband, Pierre Curie, was a co-winner on her first Nobel Prize, making them the first ever married couple to win the Nobel Prize and launching the Curie family legacy of five Nobel Prizes.
5 Noble prizes in one family???? Some people have all the talent! Off to the quotes from this great scientists and woman.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Can anything define our age as different from preceding ages, we are more obsessed about people, the gossipy part of humanity, the superficial parts of personality, the Fascistbook parade of a life filled mainly thinking about one's self and hoping others might notice? I know, too Curmudgeony. There was a lot of good on FB on the early days, seeing family photos was a real joy and keeping up with family & friends is a good. The politicization of life, the religion of many, corrupts everything it touches when your politics have become toxic and divisive. The bigger the government the smaller the citizen.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Attributed to many people, often Eleanor Roosevelt these days. According to Quote Investigator: In conclusion, Henry Thomas Buckle was the originator of the three-part maxim published in 1901. He was building on earlier guidelines about desirable forms of conversation. After 1901 the statement evolved, and the category “things” was changed to “events” in the most common modern version. James H. Halsey and Hyman G. Rickover employed instances of the adage but did not craft it. The connection to Eleanor Roosevelt was spurious.
Back to Madam Curie😁
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.
Before there was Peterson and making your bed, there was Marie Curie and her wise and common sense approach to life. In an age of profound selfishness, being a selfless person is not easy. Users rarely set limits, givers need to set limits. Some of my closest friends are a bit misanthropic and don't have much to say about the current chapter of humanity. I tend to be the opposite without being too Polly Annie-ish. I am hopeful in every person I meet, I am careful when & where I meet them. The setting of the encounters often determines quality of the encounter. Random encounters with humanity varies, check your charts and make your rolls.
Scientists believe in things, not in persons.
Fauci. Or perhaps your patron saint of science is part of a pantheon like the CDC or WHO. Either way, the cult of personality and the cult of science are like any cult - DANGEROUS. Characteristic of cults are many. Here are a few shifted from some Duck Duck a going!
The group displays an excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to its leader, and (whether he is alive or dead) regards his belief system, ideology, and practices as the Truth, as law.
Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.
More found here
http://cultresearch.org/help/characteristics-associated-with-cults/
As we have often talked about in Coffee Talk and at Padre's, science vs "The Science" are two different things. Too many have abandoned science and its relentless questioning, doubts and pursuit of understanding the whatness of their endeavor. THES SCIENCE - as we have all heard is settled. Questioning THE SCIENCE makes you a proponent of misinformation, the latest sin in the ever growing lexicon of public offenses as determined by the CABAL. Love science, detest The Science. As the great Madam says - science believes in things, not in persons. Have a great Wednesday my friends!
Somewhere in Norway was this beautiful sunrise.
Today marks the three hundred and thirtieth birthday of the Frenchman François-Marie Arouet, better known by his nom de plume, Voltaire (1694-1778).
Born into a bourgeois family during the reign of Louis XIV, the “Sun King” (r. 1643-1715), Voltaire suffered tragedy at a young age when his mother died. Never close with his father or brother, Voltaire exhibited a rebellious attitude toward authority from his youth. His brilliant mind was fostered in the care of the Society of Jesus, who introduced him to the joys of literature and theater. Despite his later criticisms against the Church, Voltaire, throughout his life, fondly recalled his dedicated Jesuit teachers.
Although he spent time as a civil servant in the French embassy to the Hague, Voltaire’s main love was writing—an endeavor where he excelled in various genres, including poetry, which led to his appointment as the royal court poet for King Louis XV. Widely recognized as one of the greatest French writers, and even hyperbolically referred to by ...
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Happy Friday, Digital Neighbors!! Slept in a little this morning. Woke up at my ordinary time, hit the hour timer, and wandered back into short, incoherent dreamland. It was a good hour to try and get a little more rest after a long day yesterday. We had a good staff team-building day with personal prayer and then looking at the DISC tool as a way to appreciate our gifts as we work together for the good of our parish family.
Had a meeting in the evening to explore using our auditorium for an Emergency Overnight Shelter in the winter for the homeless and unhoused in our local area. Lots of potential, lots of work if that is to come to fruition. As I mentioned last night, this is where the rubber hits the road on personal charity. People feel comfortable giving money to support charities, but the possibility of hosting and staffing one is way out of the comfort zone for most. Prayer and time will tell.
Off to some “ifferisms” for your Friday cup of Joe.
If you get gloomy, just take an ...
The Beautiful
Said the Disciple to the Lover, “Sir, before I left the world I heard certain men who were held in high esteem and thought to know the will of the Beloved say that those who loved the Beautiful did not love the Beloved but loved idols, yet in the Garden of the Beloved we are ever striving to create beauty for the pleasure of the Beloved. Were they then speaking the truth?”
The Lover answered, “Those who said this had never glimpsed the form of the Beloved nor ever truly sought Him, for all beauty is but the reflection of the beauty of the Beloved, although seen very dimly as in a dark and faulty mirror, even as all goodness is a dim reflection of the goodness of the Beloved. So it is that those who love beauty and goodness recognize dimly in them the form of the Beloved and though often in ignorance those who are seeking the Beautiful and the Good are seeking after the Beloved.”
