Friday, July 24, 2009

WORDS

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THIS ARTICLE WAS ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED by Douglas Castle in HUMANITAS MAXIMUS (http://HumanitasMaximus.blogspot.com)

Dear Friends:


Words are tools. They can comfort and they can hurt. They can be calm and reassuring -- but they can also be weapons; weapons to cause irreparable hurt to others, and weapons to cause irreparable hurt and regret to yourself. We are judged by our words. Choose them wisely, and choose them well.


Obama says words ill chosen, calls white policeman (AP)
AP - Trying to tamp down a national uproar over race, President Barack Obama acknowledged Friday he had used unfortunate words in declaring that Cambridge, Mass., police "acted stupidly" in arresting black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. "I could've calibrated those words differently," he said.


A good vocabulary, and a good general command of your communications techniques is extremely important. But what is equally, if not more important, is to take the time required to foresee the effects that your words may have upon others, and to use them with great caution and delicacy. Choose your words with your audience's sensitivities in mind. Don't risk being misunderstood. Think first -- then speak.


Respect the power of words.


Faithfully,


Douglas Castle
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Friday, July 10, 2009

ASLEEP AT THE SWITCH - GOOGLESOFT

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Futurists: What is the greatest actual threat to civilization? Are we taking too much for granted? http://twitlik.com/GOOGLESOFT #TNNW -DC

Notes: Our greatest dependencies are our greatest weaknesses. Increasing dependencies increase these weaknesses. Our greatest providers can become, by whim or twist of fate, the very agents of our demise. Trust is the highest-risk luxury of all -- it is more powerful than any drug addiction.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle
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Thursday, July 02, 2009

Direct and Collateral Damage: The Tragic Aspects of Self-Defense

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Dear Friends:

Following is an open letter to Mr. Stu Sinfa, posted on Facebook just moments ago. Mr. Sinfa asked if it was possible that the State of Israel had been "provoked" to act in a certain way regarding a certain situation. Israel's actions were condemned by some of the British media as being "inappropriate," "needlessly violent," or "uncivilized."
I am not a violent individual, but I believe that if someone points a gun at my head, he or she must be prepared to accept the high likelihood that 1) I will assume that the weapon is loaded; 2) I will assume that the individual aiming at my head intends (at his or her will) to pull the trigger; and that 3) I will take whatever action I am able to take to counter the perceived threat. In sum, I believe that if you choose to threaten my life, you must be fully willing to put your own at peril. You take on an immeasurable risk (and put those close to you at immeasurable potential risk) the moment that you decide to threaten me. There are no exceptions, unless it is my choice to permit you to deliver me from the burdens of this world.

Open Response To Stu Sinfa-

Regarding the issue of Israel's being "provoked" to act, I believe that Israel has been compelled to fight for its survival from the very moment of its first breath as a sovereign state. It is a tiny nation surrounded by violent adversaries relentlessly bent upon its annihilation. Self-defense (like politics) is an imprecise art, often inflicting casualties. -- DC

It is actually very simple, once you strip away the conflicts of interest, posturing, pandering, politics and old-fashioned bigotry.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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