Archives for 28 November 2003

Het is vandaag Buy Nothing Day. Een dag lang “protesteren” tegen het ongebreidelde consumentisme in de wereld. Helaas bedacht ik het me te laat en heb ik vanochtend wat software online gekocht. Nah ja, volgend jaar weer proberen 🙂

What was God doing before he created the world? The philosopher and writer (and later saint) Augustine posed the question in his “Confessions” in the fourth century, and then came up with a strikingly modern answer: before God created the world there was no time and thus no “before.” To paraphrase Gertrude Stein, there was…