Indiana is now in his sixth month. Within this time I have been able to reflect on a couple different thoughts.
First, I have thought a lot of Plato’s The Cave recently.
Allegory of the Cave
The basic idea in this allegory is that people are only seeing shadows of what is truly happening in the world. I feel that I had only seen shadows of children until I finally had my own. I didn’t have a particular feeling of them one way or another. But having one of my own that I can now interact with, love and understand a bit better, I realize their greatness. My feeling of young children today is that they are Nothing. They aren’t pure, innocent or any other adjective people put on them. They are Nothing… in the Buddhist sense of the word. Purity and innocence are just what people use to describe this state. Being pure and innocent suggests the idea that they somehow willed this. They did nothing of the sort. They simply are. They simply are… Nothing. It is in this Nothingness where all of the greatness resides.
My view of God is opposite of a standard Judeo-Christian sense of God. We are taught in Western thinking that God is all-powerful, omnipotent, sometimes merciful sometimes angry. I feel that God is none of that. In fact, I feel that God is more similar to a faint light: weak, fragile, easily extinguishable. My feeling is that we probably threw God out of the Garden of Eden rather than the other way around. But the brilliance of this God comes from the point that God is within all of us. The light of God is the connecting force that binds all of life. It is unending love. We all have it within us, we all had it once in our lives. It’s I Corinthians 13:1-13: I Corinthians 13:1-13
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.
This is God. We call it purity, innocence… love. But really a better definition of it is “Nothing”. It is everything that is not of this world. It has no emotion tied to external events or thoughts. It has no symbol to represent it. It is Nothing which is everything that is important.
It is this God Nothing that now lives in my house. It won’t be here for long. I’m guessing a year or maybe 2 and then it will slowly leave. But this is the greatness of young children. Right now, Indiana is the face of God. When I am holding him I am closer than I ever have been to God. It is his Nothing purity and innocence that makes his current existence so holy.
At this time in my life, with my own personal Cave, I have been unchained and have turned my head. I am looking directly at God. What makes this even more special is that I’m lucky enough to know it.
It took me a while to find this list. I was searching on phrases like:
digital projection system
see star wars in a digital theater
digital theater
star wars DLP
Digital Projection Theater Listing
I finally found it by going to Google and typing this in the search box:
site:www.starwars.com Digital Projection Theater Listing
That did the trick.
No matter how you get there, it’s worth your while to check out Star Wars: Episode III in a Digital theater. It’s pure digital… from beginning to end.
Star Wars: Episode III | Episode III Digital Cinema List
Blogger: Blogger Mobile
My phone picture blogging is back on. I was having some trouble with it for a while. But moblogging has given this section of my site a new lease on its life.
This is the first picture I uploaded using that service:
Sage Lewis: Jesus talking with Indiana
The extent of that blog article of mine just keeps rolling. It is now in Africa:
MENAFN - Middle East North Africa . Financial Network
Walt Disney: Long Biography:
By the time Walt had started to create The Alice Comedies, which was about a real girl and her adventures in an animated world, Walt ran out of money, and his company Laugh-O-Grams went bankrupted. Instead of giving up, Walt packed his suitcase and with his unfinished print of The Alice Comedies in hand, headed for Hollywood to start a new business.
If I’m every feeling scared, alone, or are just plain freaked out by work, I often think of Walt.
He believed the greatest character trait a person could have was Courage. He had good reason to believe that. He risked his entire business several times in his career. But it all worked out in the end.
In here: The Life of Walt Disney is the famous story of Walt loosing the rights to Oswald the duck due to fine print in a contract.
Before boarding the train home after that meeting, Walt sent Roy a telegram: “LEAVING TONIGHT STOPPING OVER KC ARRIVE HOME SUNDAY MORNING SEVEN THIRTY DON’T WORRY EVERYTHING OK WILL GIVE DETAILS WHEN ARRIVE — WALT” But while Walt was trying to protect his brother from the real story.
On the train back to California, Walt worked feverishly on his new character - a mouse. It was during the time of Charles Lindbergh’s flight in 1927 and Walt’s new cartoon, Plane Crazy was influenced by the times. Walt showed Lillian his new character and told her he was going to call him Mortimer Mouse. Lillian hated the name, so they came up with Mickey Mouse.
When all hope looked lost, Walt pushed harder and came up with possibly the greatest animated character of all time.
If you feel like you don’t know how you’re going to get through the next day, just think of Walt. Think of the courage you have inside you. And push!
You can do it.
So, today’s Akron Beacon Journal article was very nice about JumpStart. But all I could keep thinking about was Thom Shue. Did he move from Optiem and change his name? Was it actually Optiem intellectual property?
Was he doing some sneaky covert marketing tactic by pretending to be Thom Shue?
Is he maybe doing a soft launch of his name at JumpStart to test people’s acceptance of a name like “Thom Shue”? “If people like Thom Shue they’ll probably be fine with Thom Ruhe.”
Don’t be afraid Thom. Be a proud Ruhe. You don’t need to be a Shue.
Beacon Journal | 05/07/2005 | Regional startups kicked into gear