It is my personal belief that the basis of all good and bad in a society start and finish with its teachers, Suffice to say, take any one person that has left an impact on all our lives and history and you will see an absolute, direct correlation with his/her teacher.

Could someone make the argument then that with better teachers we would have better persons? I personally believe that it's true. Parents are certainly to blame to some degree but parents are simply the results of previous teachers aren't they?

Not all people are made to be teachers and we certainly lack in the screening process of creating a good teacher in all levels of education. Those in the University for example only care for the money they make and to keep the chair they are holding. Principals in lower levels care only for the money the government provides hounding the tree and losing the whole forest. Instead of schools being a place of nesting, of caring, of knowledge they have become a cesspool of excuses, cowardice, political mingling and personal ideology.

"We don't have enough money"

"They don't pay us enough (to care)"

"No one appreciates us"

"We are powerless to change anything"

"The students don't care"

More than anyone else, you teachers of all levels, have failed humanity.

Universities have become temples of money and status. Temple of political idolatry. Places of spiritual prostitution. And teachers have become whores.

We all know the so-called chasm of the generations. People of differing ages have different approaches about virtually everything, For example, imagine the outcome of a vote to go to war from the perspective of a parliament of people of the age of 65 and a parliament of the age of 25.

It is conceivable that a governmental body of similar ages would be much more efficient and productive than one with varying ages inside it.

will return with ideas and suggestions in a future continuance of this post.

In this Earth, we seem to have quite a problem with organized religion. For example, we have too many. Then some of them just want to kill or proselytize as many as possible for brownie points for their God. Also, all of them are used to change or support the political-economical status quo or a political radical change for X or Y benefits.

And on the other hand, we have the atheists who say everything is mumbo jumbo and let's keep the magic in games and cartoons. Let's just keep political ideas and political parties to influence the people to change or support the political-economical status quo or a political-radical change for X or Y benefit. And of course the more people you bring into the political ideology the more brownie points you get.

Let's continue with the nonreligious view. Let's say all religions poofed out of existence from the beginning of time. The primates hyper-evolved without believing the fire is a god and volcanoes will not go boom with virgins thrown inside regularly. We would certainly gain more virgins, also witches. We would not have religious wars, just all the other kinds of wars. Would the cumulative IQ or scientific progress be higher and faster? Possibly. We would lose of course some pesky things like the Parthenon and some such ruins. Just their maintenance must cost a fortune.

Anyway enough with the uplifting silliness.

The real question in this post is not if there is a God/Gods or not. But whether or not we as a humankind are the result of intelligent design or not. And whether that matters.

Greetings to all, Happy Holidays.

Today I am writing about a very simple - in its core- subject. It has been written of course again and again but I promise I will not draw this out in an effort not to bore you.

To oversimplify things, Creation says that an Omnipotent being God willed us into existence. Willed the whole existence into existence actually.

Evolution as the word states is the scientific theory that we human beings, as well as everything in this planet, come to be in our present form as a result of nature's evolution of beings in order to recompense for various changes.

Now what I am saying is this. Assuming there is a God and that he is all-powerful and timeless aka he is at all dimensions as the same time. Also, we assume that he created human beings with free will so that they would reach him with their own will, without being slaves. That's why supposedly he is not appearing and fixing all wrongs with this world.

In that theoretical instance wouldn't it be the opposite of the free will assumption, to create something "magically"? Wouldn't it make more sense to create a world that his creations can live within it without being forced to become slaves to a miraculous creation? To make a universe or multiverse with such laws as for us humans to be able to analyze, understand and comprehend it without outside influences?

In fact isn't the natural evolution the way for an omnipotent being to go, keeping his creations free from any intellectual shackles at all?

*The God as a male is just a reflection of the writer's sex, nothing more*

What is criticism?

Criticism is the practice of judging the merits and faults of something."

>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism

That it has negative connotations is no surprise. That some people consider it positive, however, is indeed mind-boggling. This stems in part due to people not understanding-realizing how criticism works, especially not against a faceless institution but rather a human being. Usually, criticism stems from the ego of the judge who sees something wrong in his/her opinion and decides to do something about it.

Fault A. Criticism is a marathon, not a sprint. It must not be something in the spur of the moment if you ever hope to have a positive outcome, especially for the other person. For some despicable people, the act of criticism itself empowers them and makes them feel superior to the rest. Those are truly dangerous.

Fault B. Ego. The feelings of the person judged must come before the feelings of the judge - critic. If you don't care about the other persons feelings, make that crystal clear so that the other person can filter your vocal excrement as it comes.

I will continue this subject another time, for the time being, keep in mind:

A) Go prepared. Have time. Think things through. Move only to have a positive (FOR THEM) primarily outcome.

B) Do not use criticism for your betterment but for the betterment of the other person. Know yourself. Do you do it to help them or help you? Care for their feelings.

People believe that in order to get married you need to find that special someone that you want to spend the rest of your life with. I believe that a more prudent question would be "Is this the person with whom I want to die?". Life is something so vague, so tumultuous that using it to build something that will endure through time is quite folly. Death, on the other hand, is a certainty. And based on certain things you can build something lasting.

Is this the person I want to die with?

The person I want to see last before I pass away?

The person whose hand I want to hold and whose voice I want as a final lullaby?

Take for example the CDU in Germany. Its leader had a solid hand in destroying a country, raising its suicides, leaving children without parents and homes and many, many other financial relating pain giving. Unless their bible is different from the rest of the world, I see a problem in there. Or rather a conflict of interest. Interestingly enough, Jesus Christ forgave everyone from whores to money lenders-bankers with the exception of one category of people - hypocrites.

Now tell me. We have two possibilities concerning that party. Either Christ is ok until finances are involved in which case finances win or Christian nowadays is just a meaningless name just there in the party name to get more voters. Either way, it's very, very sad and very, very, very hypocritical.

Probably when looking how to live the best we can ourselves and ignore our fellow humans and when we forget that behind numbers are people and our conscience slowly withers and/or justifies everything then can we really be called humans? Or are we just another set of animals to hunt, kill and go to bed with our jaws bloody and our stomachs full?

I guess this is about self-realization. The importance of acknowledging when we don't have all the facts and when we don't care enough to gather the facts. Remember facts are not about something that may be, but something that IS. In most things, it is good to remember that we have a grasp of very few facts and the vast quantity of "facts" is actually opinions ingrained to us but people who we think they are knowledgeable and we trust implicitly. Like journalists.

Heh heh heh.

As it happens, I read today about the times of day and night that is illegal for someone to make noise. Reasonable times at that. Below the article, naturally, there had been a wide variety of comments, with two things in common to all the writers. Anger and taking sides in an absolute manner.

While I am not interested in actually presenting the two sides, I am certain you can easily imagine them.

Anger is an indulgent emotion. You present it when you afford to present it. For example, take an ad about road rage starring Evander Holyfield if I am not mistaken. One car driver gets angry with another car driver steps down from his car, he goes to the other one and then stops being angry. Why? Because he can't afford it. Because the other driver is able to kill him with one punch. What happened to that "righteous" fury we all sometimes feel? We feel anger because we can get away with it.

We should generally be less indulgent to ourselves.

Moving on. Taking absolute sides is like being in a valley between two mountains and fanatically choosing the one mountain in front of you to climb even though you haven't even glanced at the mountain behind you. Not only that but while climbing with your back to the mountain you swear at that mountain behind you because it... exists. That is what happens with all the times we choose a side from an argument to the street to a political party and that is what blinds us and stops us from being objective.

My advice? Take a step back. Check both mountains. Facts not opinions. Essence over rhetorics. You will discover something amazing if you take the time.

Both mountains turn white if you climb high enough and the clouds no longer allow you to look at the other side.

While this is common knowledge in my circles, I thought it would be interesting to write this, for people who do not know these persons.

In every country in this world, there are persons of different ethnicity and backgrounds who have been given the nickname "Kingmaker".These persons or most commonly groups of persons, identify and correlate information regarding the potential of people, evaluate an immense amount of data and streamline the process to achieve a certain result pertaining to the future placement of said people, either globally or locally, politically or financially.

Two more things. One is that most of their time are bringing down "Kings" rather than building them. The other is an oversimplified example so that everyone can understand. Imagine a soccer team. For each position imagine a series of actions that led that specific player at that placement, on that team, at that match through tradings, trainings etc. Imagine that amount of planning. Now imagine the planning starting at the moment of each player's birth.

Quite a bizarre post, isn't it. Imagination is a very potent tool, of and for, the mind and we must never forget to practice it.

It is quite thrilling for me to see a bunch  of terrorists, drug dealers, religious fanatics to a)have seemingly the support of some of the populous ( the underage, badly monitored - raised, without any paideia (as in the Greek word, wiki to the right), critical thinking -anything that makes us human beings really- what so ever) and b) to have an army formation that again seemingly is unable to be defeated by the combined power of the NATO. Which is impossible of course; NATO can defeat any country in around a week. Actually, the USA alone can do that.

So, we can safely conclude that someone desires the presence of pedophile, rapist, murderers as well as destroyers of human culture that can never reappear again ever. Because God apparently wills it. God wants for some of his children to behead other children. God wants little girls to be sold and used as prostitutes. God wants to cover the earth with blood. Leaving that God aside for a moment.

What does this say about the people who have the power to interfere and yet they choose not to do so? We can divine the purpose of maintaining ISIS and the purpose of its creation but I want to stay for this post with its religious aspect.

That aspect which is a pure and hellish monstrosity. Another genocide that the powers that be, conveniently "ignore".  I think, however, that with the constant barrage of religious based attacks (bombs, assassinations over sketches etc) there will be a backlash. Will it only stay around Islam? But someone could argue those are fanatics, those are evil, Islam - true Islam - is nothing like that. Yes, perhaps. Punishing one religion for the actions of some of its members is unjust. Could there be a backlash against all religions? Better "monitoring" of the members, a reduction of constitutional rights in order to fell "safe" again? Perhaps no more national religions? Surely eliminating religion is a step towards bringing humanity closer together. Or is it?

I am a watcher.

Let's watch the global events unfolding, keeping in our minds two questions.

1)Do I(or another human being) lose some my freedom by X event?

2)Am I being manipulated by the mass media to maintain an uninformed opinion and feel strongly about it?

Religion, the organized faith to the unknowable, to the invisible, to the improbable.

The human mind - we - could not handle the weight of realization and we turned to divinity. Then we couldn't handle the weight of divinity and we chose to put it in little tidy boxes, locked them, painted a question mark on them, advertised the value of the secrets within and then charged a fee for anyone who wanted to see inside. So far so good.

But then we took one of the boxes and we changed its fee. Some of us understood that the box itself was more valuable for the many than the inside, and the few who truly recognized its inside for what it is - for its real value -, they would never pay the fee for it. And so, the box-keepers, who had become merchants in the meantime, would change the fee to suit their needs. Such an unwholesome thing to do! Imagine that! For the same product, some would pay money, some would pay in sweat, some in pain. Some in blood (and not even their own at that).

From the beginning of religion until now nothing really changed. Some still pay in money, some in sweat, some in pain and some in blood. In tears. In broken dreams. In humiliation. In alienation.

Some believe that inside the boxes is knowledge, others happiness, others immortality, for others virgins (understandably enough, they do get harder to find). The absurdity, however, is in the belief that the fee to see inside the box equals faith.

Let us stop paying the blood merchants and their pound of flesh. Let us become free and go with the few that realize that the inside of the box was and always will be, free.

Ancient:

I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea , and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, that I will observe and keep this underwritten oath, to the utmost of my power and judgment.

I will reverence my master who taught me the art. Equally with my parents, will I allow him things necessary for his support, and will consider his sons as brothers. I will teach them my art without reward or agreement; and I will impart all my acquirement, instructions, and whatever I know, to my master's children, as to my own; and likewise to all my pupils, who shall bind and tie themselves by a professional oath, but to none else.

With regard to healing the sick, I will devise and order for them the best diet, according to my judgment and means; and I will take care that they suffer no hurt or damage.

Nor shall any man's entreaty prevail upon me to administer poison to anyone; neither will I counsel any man to do so. Moreover, I will give no sort of medicine to any pregnant woman, with a view to destroy the child.

Further, I will comport myself and use my knowledge in a godly manner.

I will not cut for the stone , but will commit that affair entirely to the surgeons.

Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient; and I will willingly refrain from doing any injury or wrong from falsehood, and (in an especial manner) from acts of an amorous nature, whatever may be the rank of those who it may be my duty to cure, whether mistress or servant, bond or free.

Whatever, in the course of my practice, I may see or hear (even when not invited), whatever I may happen to obtain knowledge of, if it be not proper to repeat it, I will keep sacred and secret within my own breast.

If I faithfully observe this oath, may I thrive and prosper in my fortune and profession, and live in the estimation of posterity; or on breach thereof, may the reverse be my fate!

Modern:

I swear to fulfill, to the best of my ability and judgment, this covenant:

I will respect the hard-won scientific gains of those physicians in whose steps I walk, and gladly share such knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.

I will apply, for the benefit of the sick, all measures which are required, avoiding those twin traps of overtreatment and therapeutic nihilism.

I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug.

I will not be ashamed to say "I know not," nor will I fail to call in my colleagues when the skills of another are needed for a patient's recovery.

I will respect the privacy of my patients, for their problems are not disclosed to me that the world may know. Most especially must I tread with care in matters of life and death. If it is given me to save a life, all thanks. But it may also be within my power to take a life; this awesome responsibility must be faced with great humbleness and awareness of my own frailty. Above all, I must not play at God.

I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems if I am to care adequately for the sick.

I will prevent disease whenever I can, for prevention is preferable to cure.

I will remember that I remain a member of society, with special obligations to all my fellow human beings, those sound of mind and body as well as the infirm.

If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered with affection thereafter. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and may I long experience the joy of healing those who seek my help.

From the most mundane action to the most complicated, our spirits must be infused with responsibility. We must always strive for excellence in a world, indifferent at best, outright hostile at worst.