Sunday, March 15, 2009

Entelechy


En⋅tel⋅e⋅chy:

according to the dictionary:
-a realization or actuality as opposed to a potentiality.
-(in vitalist philosophy) a vital agent or force directing life and growt
h.



Aristotle puts forward the contrasting concepts of enérgeia and entelécheia in
Metaphyics

In
Metaphysics, Aristotle states that entelécheia is the fullness of actualization. Energeia is the activity of actualization - or the movement or motion toward actualization not necessarily completed.

Entelechy put another way:

Aristotle claimed that change is the passage from the potential to the actual.

Take this example: a acorn has the potential to become an oak tree. A mature oak tree is the realization of the potential of the the acorn. If you planted an acorn in the middle of an orange grove, it would become an oak tree- not an orange tree. The acorn can't learn to become/become an orange tree- it has to become an oak tree.


Saturday, March 14, 2009

Yr a Sure Shot: Man Who Threw A Shoe Sentenced to Three Years in Prison





In case you missed it:

An Iraqi court sentenced Iraqi TV reporter, Muntadher al-Zaidi to three years in prison for throwing his shoes at Former President GW Bush at a December news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Baghdad.


When asked why he threw his shoes at GW Bush, he said that he was spurred into action by the violence that USA had wrought upon the Iraqi people.

Zaidi testified:

"I had the feeling that the blood of innocent people was dropping on my feet during the time that he was smiling and coming to say bye-bye to Iraq with a dinner. So I took the first shoe and threw it but it did not hit him. Then spontaneously I took the second shoe but it did not hit him either. I was not trying to kill the commander of the occupation forces of Iraq." (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/4979586/Shoe-throwing-Iraqi-journalist-sentenced-to-3-years-in-prison.html)




And yes- It's obvious to see why a semi educated person in Iraq would be angry at former President GW Bush. Under both President Bushes (yes both, father and son) command, the US army has killed thousands of innocent and not so innocent people using tanks, depleted uranium bombs and planes in the name of freedom and democracy.

Mr. Zaidi had a SURE SHOT and he took it. He DID NOT mean maybe- at what point does a person sit peacefully complacent, and at what point does one act and throw shoes in protest? What are people supposed to do when they want to confront the often unjust military/economic might of United States Government?




But things do work out for SURE SHOTS like journalist Zaidi. Now, being a world icon, there is no way he can loose. According to the NY Times, a Saudi Arabian man offered Zaidi $10 Million for one of the shoes that he threw at former President Bush!

Mr. Zaidi should take the money so he won't have to run anymore- with $10 million, he can live somewhere and relax.


Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Jump/Pause



Jump to it!:



All the girls pause?:



These boys should take their own advice and PAUSE. Are they trying waaaay too hard?:


Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Nasty or Not?


-Mary of Egypt among Sinners


Can you learn to like this?





Oh. You know that you loved THAT part.


East Coast Nasty:



Intermission: The Nasty Boys knew how to brawl. Let the fight begin:




AND, Now, Round 2!:





West Coast Nasty:

Monday, March 9, 2009

Sweat Yr Life Away


Does it make your blood boil?:




Can you judge a book by its cover? Apparently, you have to check it out:




Sometimes, you have to come down, all the way down


all
the
way
down:




How many times a month do you walk down the street at night?


Monday, March 2, 2009