Donnerstag, 30. Januar 2014
Mittwoch, 29. Januar 2014
Montag, 27. Januar 2014
Samstag, 25. Januar 2014
Freitag, 24. Januar 2014
Donnerstag, 23. Januar 2014
Montag, 20. Januar 2014
Sonntag, 19. Januar 2014
Question from Max Frisch:
· Are you really
interested in the preservation of the human race once you and all the people
you know are no longer alive?
· State briefly why.
· How many of your children do not owe
their existence to deliberate intention?
· Whom would you rather never have met?
· Are you conscious of being in the wrong
in relation to some other person (who need not necessarily be aware of it)? If
so, does this make you hate yourself – or the other person?
· Would you like to have perfect memory?
· Give the name of a politician whose
death through illness, accident, etc. would fill you with hope. Or do you
consider none of them indispensible?
· Which person or persons, now dead,
would you like to see again?
· Which not?
· Would you rather have belonged to a
different nation (or civilization)? If so, which?
· To what age do you wish to live?
· If you had the power to put into effect
things you consider right, would you do so against the wishes of the majority?
(Yes or no)
· Why not, if you think they are right?
· Which do you find it easier to hate, a
group or an individual? And do you prefer to hate individually or as part of a
group?
· When did you stop believing you could
become wiser – or do you still believe it? Give your age.
· Are you convinced by your own
self-criticism?
· What in your opinion do others dislike
about you, and what do you dislike about yourself? If not the same thing, which
do you find it easier to excuse?
· Do you find the thought that you might
never have been born (if it ever occurs to you) disturbing?
· When you think of someone dead, would
you like him to speak to you, or would you rather say something more to him?
· Do you love anybody?
· How do you know?
· Let us assume that you have never
killed another human being. How do you account for it?
· What do you need in order to be happy?
· What are you grateful for?
· Which would you rather do: die or live
on as a healthy animal? Which animal?
Samstag, 11. Januar 2014
Reaktionen
Die unmittelbaren Reaktionen auf die Gettysburg Adress waren eher kritisch. Der Applaus des Publikums war verhalten und Lincoln selbst hatte den Eindruck, die Rede sei wegen ihrer Kürze missglückt. Als er nach der Ansprache wieder Platz nahm, sagte er zu seinem Freund und Leibwächter Ward Hill Lamon, der neben ihm saß: „Lamon, diese Rede wird nicht durchgehen.“ Den Ausdruck „nicht durchgehen“ verwendeten Präriefarmer für lehmverkrustete Pflüge, die den Boden nicht mehr aufbrechen. Auch ein Redakteur der übte scharfe Kritik, als er schrieb: „Es wird jedem Amerikaner die Schamesröte ins Gesicht getrieben, wenn er die törichten, banalen und wässrigen Äußerungen des Mannes liest, der klugen Ausländern als Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten präsentiert werden muss.“ Ganz im Gegensatz dazu äußerte sich Lincolns Vorredner Edward Everett, der die spätere positive Bewertung der Ansprache durch die Nachwelt vorwegnahm: „Verehrter Herr Präsident! Ich wünschte, ich könnte mir schmeicheln, den Kern der Sache in zwei Stunden so prägnant zum Ausdruck gebracht zu haben, wie es Ihnen in zwei Minuten gelungen ist.“ 150 Jahre später entschuldigte sich die "Harrisburg Patriot-News" dafür, dass sie seinerzeit Lincolns Rede als "dummes Geschwätz" abgetan hätte.
Gettysburg Address ~ Abraham Lincoln:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Think in outcomes
What do i want - specifically - What the outcomes need to be! [Not activities]
This week, this day, this meeting
As specific as possible
Purpose
why are we doing this?
why do i want to see that Goal?
I really need to understand, feel, get to know the 'why'
Why needs to move me and all around me
How?
Their are many
Brainstorm all the hows
Take the best - do
What do i want - specifically - What the outcomes need to be! [Not activities]
This week, this day, this meeting
As specific as possible
Purpose
why are we doing this?
why do i want to see that Goal?
I really need to understand, feel, get to know the 'why'
Why needs to move me and all around me
How?
Their are many
Brainstorm all the hows
Take the best - do
Freitag, 10. Januar 2014
Mittwoch, 8. Januar 2014
Montag, 6. Januar 2014
Samstag, 4. Januar 2014
Freitag, 3. Januar 2014
Donnerstag, 2. Januar 2014
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