http://mises.org/community/forums/27.aspxEverything else.enCommunityServer 2008.5 SP2 (Build: 40407.4157)http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/488675.aspxThu, 06 Sep 2012 16:14:02 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:488675David B0http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/488675.aspxhttp://mises.org/community/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&PostID=488675<p> &lt;bow/&gt;</p> <p> Impressive!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/488672.aspxThu, 06 Sep 2012 15:32:28 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:488672Willy Truth0http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/488672.aspxhttp://mises.org/community/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&PostID=488672<p> Very nice.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/377226.aspxFri, 05 Nov 2010 04:24:10 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:377226MaikU0http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/377226.aspxhttp://mises.org/community/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&PostID=377226<p> absolutely brilliant. Worth reposting everywhere on the internet :)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/377181.aspxFri, 05 Nov 2010 01:32:30 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:377181liberty student0http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/377181.aspxhttp://mises.org/community/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&PostID=377181<p> Amazing, fantastic work Bert.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/377134.aspxThu, 04 Nov 2010 22:10:28 GMT944abf2b-d1be-4bf2-990d-438cb0e377e9:377134Bert0http://mises.org/community/forums/thread/377134.aspxhttp://mises.org/community/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=27&PostID=377134<div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"> <div> <p> I hope everyone enjoys this, and repost it wherever if they do.&nbsp; The idea sparked in me, and I couldn&#39;t stop writing.&nbsp; I&#39;m sure the message is conveyed throughout.</p> <p style="text-align:center;"> <strong>..............................................................</strong></p> <p> I&#39;m a thought.&nbsp; I&#39;m an idea.&nbsp; I&#39;m an invention.&nbsp; I&#39;m a rather fluid and abstract sort of composition.&nbsp; I don&#39;t have any physical elements.&nbsp; I&#39;m a construct of your mind, and that&#39;s where I grow.&nbsp; The more creative and intelligent the individuals mind I&#39;m in the more I grow.&nbsp; I grow in everyone&#39;s mind.&nbsp; I&#39;m also shared by many people.&nbsp; Many people can share me at one time.&nbsp; It&#39;s a rather brilliant exposition.&nbsp; There are no barriers, and that&#39;s what&#39;s magnificent about me.&nbsp; More than one person can share me at a time.&nbsp; Eventually, someone who has the resources will put me in physical form.&nbsp; Now, the thought that turned into an idea, has now taken the place of an invention.&nbsp; How excellent!&nbsp; Now I can be enjoyed by many people.&nbsp; The more people put me into physical form the more I can be enjoyed, and I come at no expense.&nbsp; I&#39;m an infinite resource.&nbsp; Ideas and inventions have no limits.&nbsp; Not until you run out of creativity, at least.</p> <p> Another great thing about me is that I can change constantly.&nbsp; I may be brought forth into someone&#39;s mind, and then someone else has a suggestion that may change what I may become.&nbsp; Even when I&#39;m brought into physical form I can have variations of me.&nbsp; Someone may have a thought which turns into an idea to add something or take something away.&nbsp; It&#39;s a rather novel idea, no pun intended.&nbsp; I&#39;m constantly changing.&nbsp; As people grow, I grow.&nbsp; What a splendid work of art I am!&nbsp; Just go into any museum and see the many works of art that came from many people.&nbsp; It was burning in their mind, spirit, and soul to a point where the physical form of me jumped out of them.&nbsp; What we consider art is a manifestation of the mind.&nbsp; Perfect works due to someone who knew exactly what touch to add, and what not to add, and now everyone can see it.</p> <p> As I said before I also take the place of inventions.&nbsp; Everything we have today was originally just an idea.&nbsp; The idea of creating quicker communication and travel, or maybe more efficient means of production.&nbsp; It was just an idea.&nbsp; That&#39;s how it starts, and we all have ideas.&nbsp; We all share ideas.&nbsp; At no cost you can create cities in your mind.&nbsp; The splendid things about ideas is that they are free, and limitless.</p> <p> Yet, some people don&#39;t see it that way.&nbsp; They feel as if ideas can be contained, and kept away.&nbsp; I&#39;m not just talking of someone who came up with a brilliant idea or invention and never told anyone.&nbsp; A lot of people come up with many ideas that don&#39;t see the light of public for various reasons.&nbsp; Maybe it was surpassed by something greater, or maybe the reason that gave birth to such a thought was only for someone&#39;s personal use that had no growth outside the individual.&nbsp; I&#39;m talking about something different.&nbsp; Something that wants to constrain me from everyone, on purpose.</p> <p> Some people believe it&#39;s right to contain me, to draw and write out all my details, but keep me locked away from everyone.&nbsp; That, even though I&#39;m free flowing, my physical form can be controlled, and manipulated, and no one else may break me free from outside this barrier by creating me somewhere else.&nbsp; Many people don&#39;t realize that ideas are claustrophobic.&nbsp; We don&#39;t thrive well alone suited to only a specific few individuals.&nbsp; We grow when many people contribute.&nbsp; Everything we have was the variation of one idea that grew through the variations of countless people who all shared the same idea, but through time was perfected.&nbsp; Not one person could create such things as we have now.&nbsp; Even if one person came up with a new invention, it&#39;s entire foundation would have been based on the ideas and resources of countless other people.&nbsp; That individual could have no way to create such inventions without the help of others.&nbsp; They don&#39;t realize how dependent ideas are on others and <em>their</em> ideas.</p> <p> These people restrict and confine me, and believe it&#39;s their duty, that they own me.&nbsp; The absurdity!&nbsp; They can own an <em>idea</em>?&nbsp; A <em>thought</em>?&nbsp; The whole process of brainstorming is owned by all!&nbsp; No man can control me!&nbsp; Ideas are fluid, they go pass barriers and walls, we cross oceans and continents, and we last for ages!&nbsp; We have many variants, but we thrive and are persistant.</p> <p> Yet, who is to do such a thing?&nbsp; No man can simply keep others from also sharing me.&nbsp; Once I&#39;m known to others, their minds also help me grow, and I&#39;m shared amongst all.&nbsp; Who has the audacity to do such things?&nbsp; Well, as ironic as it is, someone had an <em>idea</em> that they can package ideas.&nbsp; That they can take me, confine me, and call me their property.&nbsp; That someone owns me, and no one else can.&nbsp; What an absurd idea!&nbsp; How does someone own me?&nbsp; I can&#39;t begin to fathom the type of remarks amongst individuals claiming I&#39;m theirs.&nbsp; I came up with that idea!&nbsp; That&#39;s my idea!&nbsp; No one else can have it!&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; How so?&nbsp; Ideas are also conflicting, it&#39;s our nature, so things like this can happen.&nbsp; Even a thought can have many contradictions, that&#39;s the humor of us.</p> <p> I just hope that one day I&#39;ll be broken free.&nbsp; That enough people will realize no law can hold me back.&nbsp; That I can jump around in many forms, and I can&#39;t be destroyed nor stolen.&nbsp; I&#39;m in all of us, and I take many forms, and I can give many feelings of not just creativity and ingenuity, but of even emotion.&nbsp; No one can confine an emotion or feeling to just one individual.&nbsp; Does anyone dare to confine me to just one person?&nbsp; Who will confront me, of all things?&nbsp; The law is perverse.&nbsp; I trump the law.&nbsp; Hell, the idea of law was just that, an idea!&nbsp; It can also be changed.&nbsp; Maybe one day the emotions of courage will fill enough people&#39;s minds that the idea of free thought will reign.&nbsp; This is, of course, just an idea, and that&#39;s what I am.&nbsp; Hopefully I&#39;ll find comfort in <em>your</em> mind.</p> <p> &nbsp;</p> <p style="text-align:center;"> <em>In memory of Leonard E. Read, and &quot;I, Pencil&quot;</em></p> </div> </div><div style="clear:both;"></div>