"Schumacher said small is beautiful, and counter-intuitively, it seems to me that it is as aliens and outsiders, artists and ambassadors FROM the margin that we will influence society."

I've read Schumacher's book many years ago and agreed with much of what it said. This is an interesting twist on it. As churches get big, they can influence society, IF and it is a big if, they don't get co-opted by society. But, in the end, because they are so big, they tend to be much like the culture, instead of trying to impact it. Not sure waht the implies about how to live, other to make sure that you don't get so wrapped up in the culture that you are the culture.

Refdesk.com - Thought-of-the-Day Archive: "'He who fights against monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistently into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you.' - Friedrich Nietzsche"

Very appropriate given the Iraqi prisoner abuse.

Robert A. Heinlein said, "Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

From Lee Herder

QotD2: "
Science encourages--indeed requires--us to live with doubt and ambiguity, and to appreciatae the enormity of our own ignorance." Tiimothy Ferris in The Future of Spacetime, page 155.

QotD:

"Bringing enjoyment to God, living for His pleasure, is the first purpose of your life. When you fully understand this truth, you will never again have a problem with feeling insignificant. It proves your worth. If you are that important to God, and he considers you valuable enough to keep with him for eternity, what greater significance could you have?"

Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life, Day 8

Here are the official terms of the derivatives of the position vector:

1st derivative: velocity and times mass: momentum.
2nd derivative: acceleration and times mass: force.
3rd derivative: jerk and times mass: yank.
4th derivative: snap and times mass: tug.
5th derivative: crackle and times mass: snatch.
6th derivative: pop and times mass: shake.

From Lee Herder

Qotd: "It is one of the tragedies of life that we place on people's graves the flowers we might have given them when they were alive." Barckaly in Luke, p290

Dick Staub: "I meet people occasionally who think motion pictures, the product Hollywood makes is merely entertainment, has nothing to do with education. That’s one of the darnedest fool fallacies that is current. Anything that brings you to tears by way of drama does something to the deepest roots of our personalities. All movies, good or bad, are education, and Hollywood is the foremost educational institution on earth."

Carl Sandburg, late Poet laureate on impact of Hollywood,  April 30th, 2004

I'm confused by the date since Sandburg has been dead for a while.