[Okc] new website

[Rex Wycherley]

>From: Kelley C Smith <smithkc at riskiii.com>
>To: Rex Wycherley <rex_w at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [Okc] new website
>Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 16:02:34 -0500
>
>Maybe I can't help but attempt to make compromises, but let me propose one!
>
>Rather than seeing the phrase "think smart" as a verb followed by an 
>adverb, let's see it as a statement of "what" one is to think--not "how" 
>one is to think. It just as easily could say "Think Green" or "Do Justice" 
>(a phrase I see now and then). I believe the "do justice" people have their 
>hearts in the right place, but I think "do needlework" makes sense. I'm not 
>sure if a broad, over-arching concept like justice belongs with the verb 
>"do." But they are trying to communicate that justice shouldn't be just a 
>huge, ethereal concept, but a way of life. I am supposing the phrase "think 
>smart" was intended in much the same way. (I've always liked the phrase 
>"live deliberately" myself)

You mean "live deliberate"?  Just kidding.

Rex

>
>Here's to the future of Sustainable OKC.
>
>Kelley Smith
>
>
>
>Rex Wycherley wrote:
>
>>The new web site, www.sustainableokc.org, is a very good start of what 
>>could eventually become a great, ever-expanding resource. I have one 
>>question though.... In the main heading, it states: "Think Smart". In this 
>>case, smart is used as an adverb, so shouldn't the correct form be "Think 
>>Smartly"? You could say, "That is smart thinking." in which case smart is 
>>used as an adjective. However, I can see how "think smart" has kind of a 
>>mover/shaker effect--boom, boom, two syllables---that "think smartly" 
>>doesn't convey. But then I never got used to Clinton talking about how he 
>>was going to "grow jobs" like they were some sort of natural living 
>>resource like broccoli or cauliflower. Am I being too picky?
>>
>>I also don't like it when politicians talk about how our children are "our 
>>greatest natural resources," as if they are merely so much raw ore or 
>>petroleum to be mined and distilled into salable commodities. Human beings 
>>have existential value far beyond any sort of material value or marketing 
>>strategy that materialists may try to ascribe to them. But I am going far 
>>off on a tangent....
>>
>>
>>Rex
>>
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>>
>>“…what are the marvels of civilization if people are deprived of 
>>manifesting themselves, if they do not get any scope to build a healthy 
>>body, to invigorate their intelligence with wisdom, and to broaden their 
>>hearts with love and compassion?”
>>
>>-–- Prabhat Rainjan Sarkar
>>
>>PROUT (Progressive Utilization Theory) is a new socio-economic philosophy 
>>that integrates the physical, mental and spiritual dimensions of life to 
>>establish dynamic equilibrium.
>>
>>See the PROUT Journal online at: http://www.proutjournal.org
>>For information about PROUT: http://www.prout.org
>>http://www.proutworld.org
>>
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