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Live a Good Life

JayCooper — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:58:15 +0000

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

Marcus Aurelius

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JayCooper — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:05:07 +0000

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine born 13 December 1797, was a journalist, essayist, literary critic, and one of the most significant German poets of the 19th century. His radical political views meant that many of his works were banned by the authorities in Germany. Heine spent the last 25 years of his life as an expatriate living in Paris.

I bring up Heine in light of recent current events. Heine is actually admired and quoted by Friederich Nietzshe

“The highest conception of the lyric poet was given to me by Heinrich Heine. I seek in vain in all the realms of millenia for an equally sweet and passionate music. He possessed that divine malice without which I cannot imagine perfection… And how he employs German! It will one day be said that Heine and I have been by far the first artists of the German language.” – Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo

One of Heine’s best known quotes and the one that, to me seems the most relevant given the outright ignorance and idiocy that people have exhibited. I want to share it with you now. I would encourage you to read up on Heine as besides his amazing play from 1821called Almansor he was also a rather enlightened scholar of ancient religions or lack thereof.

“Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen.” (“That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people also.”)

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I’ll Have Your Skills And Experience, To Go

JayCooper — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:10:42 +0000

Client:

“In the future, I’d prefer not to pay you to make websites for me. I’ve seen what you do, and I think it’s pretty easy. Can you just teach me how to do your web stuff?”

Me:

“If you’re really interested, I guess I can teach you the basics of web design, but it’s going to require at least several lessons and it’ll cost $xx for every hour I spend with you.

Client:

“Damnit, do you have to charge for everything?!?”

I Think..Therefore I don’t Need Tech Support

JayCooper — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:35:43 +0000

Oh, how I hate my fellow man. Well, sometimes anyway. Doing phone support all day can sure make a man jaded when it comes to having any kind of confidence that there is actually intelligent life on this planet. I have a wall poster in my office that has several clever saying regarding technical support truths, but one in particular kind of sums up all the others.

“Can you help me with this” usually means “Please do it for me”. In honor of this depressing thought I would like to draw your attention to my fine philosophical idol Ayn Randand her introduction to objectivism. Please read this and for the love of family, PLEASE try to think for yourselves people.

A Philosophy For Living

“My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.” –Ayn Rand

Objectivism means :

- Believing in yourself, not in any church, not in society, and not in fellow man.

- Not take things on faith, for reason is man’s greatest attribute.

- Helping yourself to not rely on others; and not letting others rely on you.

- Realizing that Man is an end in and of himself- not a means to ANY other purpose.

- Understanding that your personal happiness is your PRIMARY moral obligation.

- Always trying to achieve you greatest goals and productivity.

..and in doing sowe becomes a heroic beings.

To be, or not to be..

JayCooper — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 02:00:22 +0000

“I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I’ve been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn’t have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don’t have the evidence to prove that God doesn’t exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn’t that I don’t want to waste my time.” ~ Isaac Asimov

Nugget from Gene

JayCooper — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:13:52 +0000

Who would have ever thought that the demon, Gene Simmons could ever possibly impart any nuggets of wisdom whatsoever to me but I will be damned he sure did. Tonight I was watching the Simmons family jewels and Gene said something that really hit home with me.

“No amount of money or platinum records could ever take the place of the two children that Shannon Tweed and I have created. I want all the precious, special moments that I have shared with my children to last forever unfortunately the sands of time stand still for no one not even me.”

I felt like this really meant something. I belive this way also. My kids are the greatest gifts I could have ever been given. I cherish them and wish that all our fun and special times could last forever. You go Gene!!