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Imaginary Conversations: July 2007

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Sunday, July 29, 2007. Eleanor Roosevelt - the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Wife of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, born in 1884, used her influence as First Lady to promote her husband’s New Deal policies, and also took an active role in advocating civil rights. RLF: Why do you think dreams are so important? For no aspirations ever got realized merely by the wanting. Hope is necessary, of course, for without it where would we be? ER: Not at a...

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Imaginary Conversations: October 2007

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Saturday, October 13, 2007. William Godwin: can we be held accountable for the future consequences of our actions? RLF: Have you not asked the question, ‘How may the peculiar and independent operation of each individual in the social state most effectually be preserved? WG: I have, since the answer to that question is at the heart of the thorny problem of how we should best be governed so as to ensure that independent operation, of which I speak. WG: He most certainly does. RLF: But beneficial to whom?

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Imaginary Conversations: April 2008

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Thursday, April 3, 2008. Jane Austen and Thomas Hardy discuss. What follows is an imagined conversation between two great names of English Lit. – Austen and Hardy, and although they could hardly have met in their lifetimes, that doesn’t mean they didn’t do in my imagination. 1: The use of the imagination in writing. TH: I think my opinion would accord with yours, specifically, I would add, that were a writer of fiction to know those about whom he pens too well, should I say in divers ways, that so much m...

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Imaginary Conversations: August 2007

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Thursday, August 30, 2007. Qualia: what is real? Called ‘the father of modern philosopher, Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and writer. Talks about our own, personal reality as epitomised by, for example, the things we see: colours and shapes. He goes on to talk about the poverty of language and our inability to define certain things like love. AN: That would be impossible to ascertain, wouldn’t it? AN: If I say that grass is green, how can you argue against it? RLF: Not ...

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Imaginary Conversations: March 2007

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Thursday, March 29, 2007. Wednesday, March 28, 2007. George Orwell - the British press - leaders or led? George Orwell, pen name of Eric Blair, is one of England’s most well known authors and journalists. He wrote many very well known novels,. 1984, ‘Animal Farm’. The Road to Wigan Pier. 8217; being his most famous. Orwell discusses how the press is corrupted by the power it has to alter public opinion. RLF: Do you still hold to that, or has your vision of the future changed? In short, we have been bough...

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Imaginary Conversations: May 2007

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Saturday, May 26, 2007. Albert Einstein on being curious. RLF: What advice would you give to the young – to students embarking on a course of study at a university, for example? RLF: Is that what you have done? AE: Since I was a child, yes. To the child, newly arrived in this world, everything is an object of curiosity, from the folds of his mother’s clothes to the shape of his father’s chin, from the apron to the school desk, as we might say. RLF: And do you think this is where our curiosity comes from?

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Imaginary Conversations: June 2007

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Wednesday, June 27, 2007. Ahhotep – When we have no choice, we are free! RLF: How can you say that when we have no choice, that we are free? A: In taking a journey through your country, can you not travel quicker and with more piece of mind when there is but one road before you? RLF: That seems intuitively correct. I can add an example to verify it. My own father, whilst serving his country in the armed forces, never, so he stated, felt so free as he did during those two years spent in Egypt. Shall we mo...

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Imaginary Conversations: February 2007

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007. In the pages that follow this one, I have tried to engage in a dialogue with the people mentioned below. It is my way of getting to the bottom of things that concern me, and hopefully you as well. Robert L. Fielding. PS I will get round to completing this project - be patient, like those below tell you in their own ways - I will finish it all eventually - Rome wasn't built in a day, was it? Crito - why we should accept justice and behave appropriately - our obligations. Socra...

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Everyday Choices that Can Change Your Life

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Everyday Choices that Can Change Your Life. Decisions are generally regarded as conclusions you arrive at, or judgements you make, they influence your perception of yourself, other people and life in general. Your perception determines how much money you make, how intelligent you are and even how hard or easy your life will be. Your perception of life becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Dr Richard Wiseman, author of. Down the Rabbit Hole. Who you are today is a result of the conscious and unconscious dec...

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Imaginary Conversations: November 2008

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Sunday, November 2, 2008. Edna St. Vincent Millay - Is writing 'the loom'? Upon this gifted age, in its dark colour,. Rains from the sky a meteoric shower. Of facts …they lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill. Is daily spun; but there exists no loom. To weave it into fabric. Edna St. Vincent Millay. Is writing ‘the loom’? RLF: You say we need a loom to weave our wisdom into fabric – what do you mean by that, exactly? RLF: It has been said that writers get their best ideas by ...