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 ...
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 ...
I will admit right here and now stipulate to my limited knowledge of the economic and banking system. But quite not surprisingly I have some thoughts on the subject of Interest.
Banks have some money and they tell you we will give some of ...
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 ...
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.
...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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Schadenfreude: the feeling of pleasure derived by seeing another's misfortune.
"Southern trees bear a strange fruit
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root..."
Billie Holiday
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 ...
Ancient:
I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius the surgeon, likewise Hygeia and Panacea , and call all the gods and goddesses to witness, ...
Another reason for marriage failing (and by marriage, I mean any union of human beings) is that we choose our companion on ephemeral characteristics. Like weight, athleticism, muscle definition. Instead, we should make our choice based on more permanent ones, like character, attitude, mentality. Generally virtues that time cannot ...
....slightly pessimistic, slightly offensive, metaphorical and probably true. You were warned.
Let us think of life as a watery hole filled with excrement (shit). The only thing that we can see floating are turds. In fact, the biggest ones seem to dominate. How did ...
It is hard to find a worse kind of insult than someone forced to dig his own grave or transport the "tools" of his execution and I think that is precisely what happens right now in the global economy.
Take for example the debt ...