the game

Seek, above all, for a game worth playing. Such is the advice of the oracle to modern man. Having found the game, play it with intensity -- play as if your life and sanity depended on it. (They do depend on it). Follow the example of the French existentialists and flourish a banner bearing the word "engagement." Though nothing means anything and all roads are marked "NO EXIT," yet move as if your movements had some purpose. If life does not seem to offer a game worth playing, then invent one.

For it must be clear, even to the most clouded intelligence, that any game is better than no game...

 

- the master game, robert s. de ropp

W.I.R - Ein "Scherbengericht" über die europäischen Politik

sweet things

All these sweet people around remind us that our lives are not measured by the things we accumulate but by the things we share.

flieg so hoch wie du nur kannst

Kein Vogel fliegt zu hoch,
wenn er sich mit seinen eigenen Flügeln in die Höhe schwingt.

(William Blake)

Dagger of the Mind

To all mankind.

May we never find space so vast,
planets so cold,
heart and mind so empty
that we cannot fill them
with love and warmth.

Star Trek (1966)

ambiguous mind

- You Earth people glorify organised violence for 40 centuries,
but you imprison those who employ it privately.


Mr. Spock (Star Trek, 1966)

another Earth

- Earth-style distress signal--SOS.
- I've answered it on all frequencies, sir. They don't reply.
-Not a vessel, a ground source. The third planet in this solar system, according to my instruments.

- Directly ahead. Definitely an Earth-style signal.
- We're hundreds of light years from Earth, Mr. Spock. No colonies or vessels out this far.

- Measuring the planet now, Captain. It's spheroid-shaped. Circumference: 24,874 miles. Mass: 6 times 10 to the 21st power tons. Mean density: 5.517. Atmosphere... oxygen, nitrogen.

- Earth!
- Not the Earth, another Earth  ...another Earth?

Space, 
the final frontier. 
These are the voyages of 
the starship Enterprise. 

Its five-year mission to explore 
strange new worlds, 
to seek out 
new life 
and 
new civilizations, 
to boldly go 
where no man has gone 
before.


Star Trek (1968)