Comments on: The Prophet http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:05:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: blog.thoughtwax.com » Recycled feeds http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet/comment-page-1#comment-47281 blog.thoughtwax.com » Recycled feeds Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:38:52 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=177#comment-47281 [...] Samuel Pepy’s diary has been published as a blog since 2003. Bible RSS feeds for your daily scriptures (see also Blogging the Bible by David Plotz on Slate). It’s Bloomsday, but is reading Ulysses a page a day via RSS any more manageable than the dead tree version? Steven Wright and Jenny Holzer are rocking opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum over on Twitter (never before, I think, has a medium been put to such perfectly apt use). Each day last February I posted the 28 chapters of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. [...] [...] Samuel Pepy’s diary has been published as a blog since 2003. Bible RSS feeds for your daily scriptures (see also Blogging the Bible by David Plotz on Slate). It’s Bloomsday, but is reading Ulysses a page a day via RSS any more manageable than the dead tree version? Steven Wright and Jenny Holzer are rocking opposite ends of the intellectual spectrum over on Twitter (never before, I think, has a medium been put to such perfectly apt use). Each day last February I posted the 28 chapters of Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet. [...]

]]> By: Nick http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet/comment-page-1#comment-327 Nick Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:09:19 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=177#comment-327 Har! I always thought Desiderata was an anonymous text, written in the 1600s! Hmmm, maybe someone hijacked the copyright? Anyway... Yeah, I downloaded a RSS reader, and I understand the concept, but I just couldn't get it to work, even after clicking on the wee RSS box on bbc.co.uk, sfgate.com and other websites I enjoy. :-( Maybe a few pointers in an email, emmet, if you have the time! Har! I always thought Desiderata was an anonymous text, written in the 1600s! Hmmm, maybe someone hijacked the copyright? Anyway…

Yeah, I downloaded a RSS reader, and I understand the concept, but I just couldn’t get it to work, even after clicking on the wee RSS box on bbc.co.uk, sfgate.com and other websites I enjoy. :-( Maybe a few pointers in an email, emmet, if you have the time!

]]> By: emmetc http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet/comment-page-1#comment-326 emmetc Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:37:56 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=177#comment-326 <i>... more often than not ends up browsing familiar websites...</i> <i>... if only i could figure out how RSS works!</i> Just wanted to note a (tenuous) common thread between your two comments: you could avoid losing time to aimless web browsing by subscribing to RSS feeds that deliver the content of websites to you as they are updated. The content comes to you instead of you having to seek it out, and it maybe not being there. For more info on RSS see <a href="http://web2.0ireland.com/subscribing-to-blog-feeds/" rel="nofollow" rel="nofollow">here.</a> (Of course, we could get into the lamentable loss of aesthetics that reading all of your online content in an email-style application leads to, but that's a whole other blog post.) And yes, it's the same guy that Glen Hansard namechecks. … more often than not ends up browsing familiar websites…

… if only i could figure out how RSS works!

Just wanted to note a (tenuous) common thread between your two comments: you could avoid losing time to aimless web browsing by subscribing to RSS feeds that deliver the content of websites to you as they are updated. The content comes to you instead of you having to seek it out, and it maybe not being there.

For more info on RSS see here.

(Of course, we could get into the lamentable loss of aesthetics that reading all of your online content in an email-style application leads to, but that’s a whole other blog post.)

And yes, it’s the same guy that Glen Hansard namechecks.

]]> By: emmetc http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet/comment-page-1#comment-325 emmetc Wed, 01 Feb 2006 23:31:55 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=177#comment-325 Thanks for the references Nick, I'll check some of them out. Is <a href="http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html">this</a> the "Desiderata" text that you refer to? Thanks for the references Nick, I’ll check some of them out. Is this the “Desiderata” text that you refer to?

]]> By: Nick http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet/comment-page-1#comment-324 Nick Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:27:14 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=177#comment-324 My dad read "the prophet" to me when I was growing up, from about 5 years old onward. It's kinda written indelibly into my psyche, and although a lot of it is questionable, it's good to ponder everything Gibran has to say nonetheless. The kernals of his method and ideas can be found in other writings: Anthony DeMello's "Awareness", the unknown author of the life changing text "Desiderata", the Tao Te Ching, Benjamin Hoff. It's so close to Taoism, in fact, that I find myself a practioner of that religion primarliy due to that experience as a youngster. I love the idea, Emmett. I'll read everyone, (if only i could figure out how RSS works!) N My dad read “the prophet” to me when I was growing up, from about 5 years old onward. It’s kinda written indelibly into my psyche, and although a lot of it is questionable, it’s good to ponder everything Gibran has to say nonetheless.

The kernals of his method and ideas can be found in other writings: Anthony DeMello’s “Awareness”, the unknown author of the life changing text “Desiderata”, the Tao Te Ching, Benjamin Hoff. It’s so close to Taoism, in fact, that I find myself a practioner of that religion primarliy due to that experience as a youngster.

I love the idea, Emmett. I’ll read everyone, (if only i could figure out how RSS works!)

N

]]> By: james bond http://blog.thoughtwax.com/2006/02/the-prophet/comment-page-1#comment-323 james bond Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:07:00 +0000 http://blog.thoughtwax.com/?p=177#comment-323 i was listening to the frames live album (breadcrumb trail) and when performing red cord glen hansard goes through a list of people he wants to celebrate. he roars "rave on mic christopher, rave on Kahlil Gibran, rave on..." Same guy as the author? nice idea emmet, forced slow down. i so often come home from work all stressed out, determined to relax but have no "plan" in place so i spend most of my evening worrying about what i should be doing to calm down. it's an ellusive search that more often than not ends up browsing familiar websites, pacing the same streets... peace is never found and i go to bed with a sense of failure from not having found what i wanted. maybe your idea could grow into a method. i was listening to the frames live album (breadcrumb trail) and when performing red cord glen hansard goes through a list of people he wants to celebrate. he roars “rave on mic christopher, rave on Kahlil Gibran, rave on…”

Same guy as the author?

nice idea emmet, forced slow down. i so often come home from work all stressed out, determined to relax but have no “plan” in place so i spend most of my evening worrying about what i should be doing to calm down. it’s an ellusive search that more often than not ends up browsing familiar websites, pacing the same streets… peace is never found and i go to bed with a sense of failure from not having found what i wanted.

maybe your idea could grow into a method.

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