“There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living”

- fellow thinker
Nelson Mandela

Tuesday / December 15, 2009 / 6:00pm – 7:30pm

Hoboken Public Library
500 Park Avenue / Hoboken, NJ 07030

Free General Admission

For registration, call (201) 420-2347, email hobkref@bccls.org, or visit http://hoboken.bccls.org

MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS…

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Try to regard all encounters and situations, including your job, as a game, as the world of illusions.  Pull back a little and enjoy it all.  Do you best, but don’t fall apart if everything doesn’t pan out the way you’d like it to.  Remember that things are seldom what they seem.  Even skim milk masquerades as cream, and as Oscar Levant once said, “When you strip away the phony tinsel, what do you find underneath?  The real tinsel.”

I highlighted this passage over ten years ago.  When I came across it over the weekend, it dawned on me just how much I’ve applied it to my life!

A couple of weeks ago during the We Think Radio show, I stated that I’ve never had an argument with anyone who was smarter than me.  What seemed to be something just said in passing has actually made a profound impact in my way of being…for I have not argued with anyone since!

I know now for sure that there is no reason to argue with anyone based on this new way of thinking.  Allow me to further explain… (more…)

The Muslim Problem:
Clarity in the age of the Anti-Muslim Industrial Complex
By Preacher Moss a.k.a Undercover Muslim

A while ago, a good friend, and fellow thinker, Sakiya Sandifer, asked me to compose and article on the recent and tragic shootings at Fort Hood military base.  As I watched the news, the words “killer, Muslim, terrorist, and Islamic seemed to role across the screen as it made its way in the context of conversation being offered by the journalist.  It appeared, in a continuing trend, that the media was looking to take the actions of alleged Muslim gunman’s act of terror, and immediately try to connect his actions to a fundamentalist, violent, radical, but extremely profitable and marketable form of Islam.  I affectionately call this making doe on the “Muslim Problem. For those who are new to this, welcome to the world of the Anti-Muslim Industrial Complex (AMI Complex) my friends…or maybe not.

If you want to know what the Muslim problem is, I would submit to you as Example A, (more…)

“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

-fellow thinker
Winston Churchill

“Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.”

- fellow thinker
Abraham Joshua Heschel,
from The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence, 1967

This will be very interesting for me to watch tomorrow because I did this interview over a month ago and I kind of forgot what I said…LOL!!!

Saturday, November 21, 2009 — 10AM — Channel Thirteen
Monday, November 23, 2009 — 7AM/1PM — WLIW WORLD
Thursday, November 26, 2009 — 11:30PM — WLIW

I remember it going well for the most part.

You have control over your life. Your success or failure is completely up to you. You control how lucky or unlucky you are. You create your wealth or destitute with your efforts.   (more…)

SHOW HIGHLIGHT: Reason is the enemy of faith!

Topics range from business to politics, religion to education, relationships to self-empowerment, to pop-culture and everything else in between. Tune in and join in the discussion where great minds don’t think a like…they think for themselves!!!

I encourage everyone to answer the same question for themselves!!!

An interesting concept by designer Aïssa Logerot, this innovative mirror can be used as ironing board when it’s tilted and secured on horizontal position. According to the designer, “this object is a link between two consecutive actions: iron clothes and dress up.”

“What luck for the rulers that men do not think.”

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I was having a conversation with Sakiya recently and the question was posed, are winners born or created?  This is quite the interesting question, especially when you look around and see so many obvious winners and losers in the world.

After much thought, I’ve settled with the belief that winners are (more…)

If that didn’t spark your mind, I encourage you to watch the other three parts to come to your own rational decision… (more…)

It was already known that foetuses could memorise sounds from the outside world in the last three months of pregnancy and were particularly sensitive to the contour of the melody in both music and human voices.

Earlier studies had shown that infants could match vowel sounds presented to them by adult speakers, but only from 12 weeks of age. (more…)

Be sure to share your thoughts…definitely worth the ten minutes!!!

“Don’t ask what the world needs.  Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.  Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

- fellow thinker
Howard Thurman

“Life is a game of patterns and chance…and those who play well will win.”

Can you spot the woman’s body in this picture? (more…)

I’ve learned in my life time that insecure people get really offended when called insecure…THINK ABOUT IT!!

I came across some great Ali quotes in the midst of some late night browsing last night.  Ali has been someone that I’ve admired for as long as I can remember.  At first I just sent them to a couple of friends who I knew could relate.  When I woke up this morning still thinking about them, I knew that I had to share them with all of my fellow thinkers.

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SHOW HIGHLIGHT: It is your responsibility to avoid harms way!

Topics range from business to politics, religion to education, relationships to self-empowerment, to pop-culture and everything else in between. Tune in and join in the discussion where great minds don’t think a like…they think for themselves!!!

The boogeyman is a legendary ghost-like monster that has no specific appearance and conceptions of the monster can vary drastically even from household to household within the same community.  He has simply become an amorphous embodiment of terror that resides in the mind of the believer.

So I ask again, what does the boogeyman look like to you?

Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does.  No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

- fellow thinker
Carlos Castaneda

Thanks to everyone who came out to the event!!!

Taryn Simon exhibits her startling take on photography — to reveal worlds and people we would never see otherwise. She shares two projects: one documents otherworldly locations typically kept secret from the public, the other involves haunting portraits of men convicted for crimes they did not commit.

You can watch the video at www.TED.com

He pioneered the bagless vacuum cleaner and more recently has transformed the UK’s public toilets with his revolutionary hand-dryer. Today the billionaire businessman and inventor Sir James Dyson unveils his latest product – a desk fan that he hopes will provide a greener alternative to office air conditioning and a safer and more efficient product for use at home.   (more…)

A true test of a friendship is being able to brag about your accomplishments with out any consequences…THINK ABOUT IT!!!

Thursday, October 22, 2009
6:00pm – 7:30pm

Westside Theater
285 Westside Avenue
Jersey City, NJ

Free General Admission

Contact Huyen Le at 201-200-2156 or hle2@njcu.edu for registration.

MEET THE ENTREPRENEURS… (more…)

“Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.”

-fellow thinker/Greek Philosopher
Plutarch

THINK ABOUT IT BEFORE YOU ANSWER!!!

Although I love this design concept, I’m not sure how practical it would be.

To see the answer, click –> (more…)

Although this just proves my point of how the media practices premeditated manipulation…THINK ABOUT IT!!!

Thanks sam204 for the link!!!

Seriously, where is the outcry by PETA on this one.

This had to be one of the most asinine examples of all time! If you know of any others, please share!!!

- fellow thinker,
Neil Degrasse Tyson

In British English, “faggot” traditionally means a bundle of sticks and “fag” is common slang for a cigarette or for hard work.  Where as in the advertisement, ”faggots” are a kind of meatball.

Once again, always seek intent over content to define an action!!!

Be sure to pick up the current issue and share your thoughts.  Thanks again to Melody Hoffman who wrote the article…you are truly a shining star in your profession!!!

Topics range from business to politics, religion to education, relationships to self-empowerment, to pop-culture and everything else in between. Tune in and join in the discussion where great minds don’t think a like…they think for themselves!!!

“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste time.”

- fellow thinker/doer
Henry Ford