Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged antibiotics, bacteria, body, cleanliness, gods, Greek, hygiene, India, Jain, soap, TIA, virus on November 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The word hygiene comes to us from Greek. Hygieia was the goddess of health, cleanliness and the moon. The lesser Greek gods had multiple responsibilities to maintain their importance in the hierarchy, like today’s politicians.
If you have seen a commercial about a monk (looking possibly Buddhist) turning over an upturned turtle and moving a crawly [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, tagged attention, bigotry, Churchill, communication, love, message, political correctness, TIA on November 22, 2007 | No Comments »
Please read the signature line at the end of the article about a book you should read and a worldwide plan to make the world a safer and healthier place to live. Learn more about the book and the plan at http://billallin.com
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, tagged adults, apathy, Icahn, law, lazy, learning, mistakes, nature, people, SUV, thinking, thought, TIA on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
“In life and business, there are two cardinal sins.
The first is to act precipitously without thought and
the second is to not act at all.”
- Carl Icahn
In business, acting without thought, planning and due diligence may be fatal to the business. However, can this be true of life in general? Is doing nothing or doing something [...]
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD)
Many people fear the future, mostly because it’s unknown and they fear that which is not familiar to them. Anything unknown, [...]
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Posted in Human Nature, Spirituality, World Politics, tagged Afghanistan, brutality, burqa, Iraq, Islam, militants, Shari'a law, Taliban, TIA, war on November 15, 2007 | No Comments »
When the Soviet military pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989, Afghan
citizens cheered wildly because the Soviets had reportedly killed about
one million Afghans during their occupation of the country.
The Mujahideen that had nominally routed the Soviets separated into
their various (mostly tribal) factions and began turf wars within the
country, each determined to dominate the economy. This would [...]
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Life is not the way it’s supposed to be. It’s the way it is. The way you
cope with it is what makes the difference.
- Virginia Satir
We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit
to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian and [...]
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Please read the signature line at the end of the article about a book you should read and a worldwide plan to make the world a safer and healthier place to live. Learn more about the book and the plan at http://billallin.com
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What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of
its recipients. Hence a [...]
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