It’s been an eventful week. I had the opportunity to meet Robb Beal in person on Sunday. He dropped by my pad and we talked for a couple hours about everything from the Linux Desktop, usability, music distribution, starting businesses, to good dining in St. Louis. He’s got some great insights.
Then at the beginning of this week, as I’ve already announced, I was offered a position at VistaWiz. My official start date is March 24th, but last night I attended a staff meeting and learned a bit more about where the company is going and what challenges we have in front of us. They are a very talented, enthusiastic group of people and I look forward to diving right in.
My condolences go out to the friends and families of the Madrid victims. What a horrific act. I do not comprehend terrorism at all. While we may continue to conquer technological and scientific challenges on a daily basis, it seems that our moral fabric is being shredded, inch by inch. Science cannot teach us to love our neighbour. Science can give us the technology to feed our neighbour or to blow them to bits, but without any moral absolutes, we are all our own gods, making our own rules–which is, in effect creating our own universe and sitting back and saying, It is good. The logical consequence of this is fairly obvious.
Tags: Personal
March 11th, 2004 at 4:01 pm
Unfortunately Jamin, this sort of destruction has been going on since the beginning of time. Whether your beliefs are within religon or science. It is the survival of the fittest sort if attitude. It is unfortunate that there are idiots that take our right away to live, without a choice b/c they rebel against order or democracy.
Carpe Dium
Rebecca
March 11th, 2004 at 4:02 pm
Excuse my spelling error, I meant religion, not religon.
March 11th, 2004 at 4:15 pm
To clarify, I am not saying religion solves these problems that science is creating.
The problems are more fundamental than institutionalized human creations such as organized religion or the scientific community. The problem is the bent heart and mind of mankind. At a basic level, we all want to be our own god. We want power to change the world. We want to declare for ourselves what is right and what is wrong.
March 11th, 2004 at 4:37 pm
I understand. I was stating that the reasons people destruct is normally religion or science, based. Most political reasons go back to religion, most not all. History can prove this and so can current events.
Or we can say money is the root of all evil and leave it at that….
March 11th, 2004 at 6:27 pm
A humans most dangerous predator is other humans.
March 12th, 2004 at 11:24 am
Wow I must be out of the loop of the world…. what happened?
March 12th, 2004 at 2:59 pm
I was sad to hear the news, myself. I got right on the phone to make sure my friends were safe.Thanks God they were ok. when will this end? Why don’t people understand that acts of terrorism is NOT the answer.
December 17th, 2005 at 7:46 pm
I am very happy that a man with sense shares the same name as I. I agree very much so, in what you are saying. we are all our own gods, making our own rules–which is, in effect creating our own universe and sitting back and saying, It is good. The logical consequence of this is fairly obvious. awesome.
peace out brotha
Jamin