Quotes for today
Love Quote of the Day
Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
Juliette Binoche
Quote of the Day
We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.
Eric Hoffer
Tradition is the illusion of permanance.
Woody Allen
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
Charles de Gaulle
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.
Buddha
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Poem for today
EARTH VOICES
by: Bliss Carman (1861-1929)
I
HEARD the spring wind whisper
Above the brushwood fire,
"The world is made forever
Of transport and desire.
"I am the breath of being,
The primal urge of things;
I am the whirl of star dust,
I am the lift of wings.
"I am the splendid impulse
That comes before the thought,
The joy and exaltation
Wherein the life is caught.
"Across the sleeping furrows
I call the buried seed,
And blade and bud and blossom
Awaken at my need.
"Within the dying ashes
I blow the sacred spark,
And make the hearts of lovers
To leap against the dark."
II
I heard the spring light whisper
Above the dancing stream,
"The world is made forever
In likeness of a dream.
"I am the law of planets,
I am the guide of man;
The evening and the morning
Are fashioned to my plan.
"I tint the dawn with crimson,
I tinge the sea with blue;
My track is in the desert,
My trail is in the dew.
"I paint the hills with color,
And in my magic dome
I light the star of evening
To steer the traveller home.
"Within the house of being,
I feed the lamp of truth
With tales of ancient wisdom
And prophecies of youth."
III
I heard the spring rain murmur
Above the roadside flower,
"The world is made forever
In melody and power.
"I keep the rhythmic measure
That marks the steps of time,
And all my toil is fashioned
To symmetry and rhyme.
"I plow the untilled upland,
I ripe the seeding grass,
And fill the leafy forest
With music as I pass.
"I hew the raw, rough granite
To loveliness of line,
And when my work is finished,
Behold, it is divine!
"I am the master-builder
In whom the ages trust.
I lift the lost perfection
To blossom from the dust."
IV
Then Earth to them made answer,
As with a slow refrain
Born of the blended voices
Of wind and sun and rain,
"This is the law of being
That links the threefold chain:
The life we give to beauty
Returns to us again."
"Earth Voices" is reprinted from April Airs: A Book of New England Lyrics . Bliss Carman. Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1916.
MORE POEMS BY BLISS CARMAN
Music for Wednesday
Al Pacino – Scent of a women
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dBHhSVJ_S6A&feature=related
Kate Melua – If you were a sailboat
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=x25F3-sR2Yo
Matt Monro – Born Free
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ISWOrI0WaLs
M – People - Search for the hero inside yourself
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w4a5T3yRZpY
Tyrone Davies – Turn it up turn it loose
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WX-yFeSat9k
The Temptations – I wish it would rain
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J37TXOtVxps
Omar – There’s nothing like this
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=mFnclBOlr6o
Hipsway – Ask the lord
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TOmDAwZ3dfY&feature=related
Robert Plant – I’m in the mood
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iTSRbA5-F-8
Peter Frampton – baby I love your way
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=BmjFk7i4hyg
Jeff Beck/Jimmy Page – Bolero
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbx-Qgt65bI
Today’s two Articles
Reality TV is making people think they are in their own Truman Show, say psychiatristsBy Daily Mail Reporter
Last updated at 7:27 AM on 26th November 2008
Exposed: Jim Carrey's private life is screened in The Truman Show
Reality TV is to blame for a rise in psychiatric problems where the sufferers become convinced their own lives are being played out in front of the cameras, experts say.
The phenomenon has been dubbed Truman syndrome, after hit movie The Truman Show, in which Jim Carrey plays the unwitting star of a lifelong reality show.
Psychiatrist Ian Gold said reality TV shows such as I'm A Celebrity..., with their ability to turn strangers into intimates, may add critically to the psychological pressure on people who already have underlying problems.
Dr Gold, a philosophy and psychology professor at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, stressed that he was not saying reality shows made healthy people delusion, but added: 'At the very least, it seems possible to me that people who would become ill are becoming ill quicker or in a different way.'
Researchers in London described a Truman syndrome patient in the British Journal of Psychiatry in August.
The 26-year-old postman 'had a sense the world was slightly unreal, as if he was the eponymous hero' in The Truman Show, the researchers wrote.
In the 1998 movie, Carrey's character Truman Burbank leads a largely uneventful life until he realises his friends and family are actors, his home town is a sound stage and every moment of his life has been broadcast on television.
His struggle to sort out reality and illusion is often horrifying for Truman syndrome patients, researchers say.
Dr Joel Gold (no relation), a psychiatrist with New York's Bellevue Hospital, said he encountered five patients with delusions related to reality TV in the space of two years. Several of them specifically mentioned The Truman Show.
One man showed up at a U.S. government building asking to be released from the reality show he was sure was being made of his life.
Another was convinced his every move was secretly being filmed for a TV contest.
A third believed that everything - the news, his psychiatrists, the drugs they prescribed - was part of a fake stage-set world in which he was the involuntary star.
Dr Gold added that while it was not unusual for psychiatrists to see delusional patients who believe their relatives have been replaced by impostors or who think figures in their lives are taking on multiple disguises, Truman delusions are more sweeping, involving not just some associates but society at large.
He said: 'The question is really: Is this just a new twist on an old paranoid or grandiose delusion ... or is there sort of a perfect storm of the culture we're in, in which fame holds such high value?'
But other researchers are not convinced of the effects of the Truman syndrome.
Psychologist Vaughan Bell of King's College London said one of his former patients believed he was in the virtual-reality universe portrayed in the 1999 sci-fi blockbuster The Matrix.
He insisted: 'I don't think that popular culture causes delusions, but I do think that it is only possible to fully understand delusions and psychosis in light of our wider culture.'
Share this article:Here's what readers have had to say so far. Why not add your thoughts below?
my grandfather would always pronounce "celebs" something which sounded like "cilibees"... and it seemed to fit as it did with the cat called "cooking fat"!
- mmm, sw aquitaine, 26/11/2008 15:13
This just in: Psychiatrists make people feel crazy.
I may be wrong (it's happend before,) but don't most people in the pshychiatric profession get atrracted to the field because of their own feelings of a lack of "normalcy?" If that is the case, then why do we put so much stock in thier judgement of what is normal and sane? As many of the previous posters have already pointed out, there is widespread usage of CCTV surveilance systems in the UK. It would tend to suggest to me that it is appropriate to have a feeling of being "watched." You are. Now the analysts are going to use the old scapegoat of TV and movies to explain away the feelings. Just seems like a ploy to artificially ease the discomfort of having Big Brother over your shoulder all day. I noticed that the article failed to mention whether this was the results of an official study or just an untested hypothesis. I also noticed there were only 9 vague examples cited, none of which are unheard of for paranoid schizophrenics.
- Yank, USA, 26/11/2008 15:04
I feel that some people get too hooked up on these shows and are using them to replace a real life of their own. If people went out and socialised, communicated and generally mixed with other people then the behaviour of the "celebs" on these silly programmes would be seen for wha it is.
- Myself, Cork, Ireland, 26/11/2008 12:34
Cruise holidays reduced to £1 MSC Cruises is offering holidays for as little as £1 as the economic downturn forces travel companies to take drastic measures.By Charles Starmer-Smith
Last Updated: 11:34AM GMT 26 Nov 2008
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MSC Cruises says the economic downturn has encouraged them to introduce the offer
MSC Cruises is now offering holidays for £1 as the economic downturn forces cruise lines to offer unprecedented deals.
For each passenger who makes a booking next week (December 1-7) for a cruise in 2009, a second passenger will pay just £1.
More than 100 departures are available under the offer, from March to November 2009, for seven, eight and 11-night sailings within Europe. It is available for sailings on MSC Armonia, Opera, Melody, Sinfonia, Orchestra, Lirica, Poesia, Fantasia and Splendida.
Itineraries include the Mediterranean, with departures from Barcelona, Genoa, Venice, Livorno, northern Europe and the Baltics.
Prices start from £700 for the first passenger, with flights available for all Mediterranean departures from £210 return.
“We were always looking at doing something for Christmas but the credit crunch has spurred us on to do it,” said a spokeswoman for MSC. “It’s the first time we have offered this in the UK.”
Last month we reported that cruise companies were being forced to cut the price of winter sailings to a sixth of their brochure price. Last week Fred Olsen was offering places on Caribbean cruises this Winter for just over £600 - more than 60 per cent less than the brochure price.
With 40 more ships boasting more than 50,000 extra berths set to be launched by cruise lines by 2012 there are fears that cruise companies will continue to struggle to fill their ships.
A spokesman for ATBA said that it is likely that prices will continue to fall. It is good news for passengers.
“Demand will fall, which will bring prices down,” he said. “It’s good news for everyone except the travel companies that fail.”
A recent survey by the cruise website, cruisecritic.co.uk , found that only quarter of Britons believed that their cruise plans for 2009 would unaffected by the downturn.
More: http://www.hsengine.com/s_Sailboat+Plans.html
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