Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, tagged beliefs, occult, parapsychology, politics, religion, science on December 30, 2007 | 16 Comments »
Science plays a critically important role in our lives. It not only influences the technology we use, it also affects our politics (global warming being but one example), our religion (”Is God just a fantasy?”), our philosophies (”Live today for tomorrow you may die”), even how we think of ourselves both as individuals and as [...]
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Posted in Human Nature, Media, Spirituality, tagged birth, carols, celebration, Christianity, Christmas, church, Jesus, songs on December 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Though we often think of carols in association with church services, notably in the Christmas season, they began as anything but.
The word carol itself derives from the French carole, which referred in medieval times to a ring-dance. The first Christmas carols were banned from the church because they were festive dances, though there was singing [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged advertising, alcohol, beliefs, boredom, brainwashing, Clark, drugs, happy, industry, parties, talk, TIA on December 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The tourist business is overrun with people bored with themselves.
- Joan Clark, An Audience of Chairs
A majority of people on vacation have one of two possible objectives: to relax and have fun doing much the same things they could have done at home (with some adjustments) or to have experiences they can share later with [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged Bulwer-Lytton, charity, Christmas, giving, helping, homelessness, hunger, poverty, TIA on December 21, 2007 | No Comments »
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, English novelist, poet, politician (1803-1873)
‘Tis the season of giving as I write this, Christmas, or “the holidays,” the time when we supposedly think more of giving to others than of taking for ourselves. For the Christian part of the world and [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged Bush, power, respect, TIA, Trump, Ward, wealth on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
- William Arthur Ward
People like people who try to bring out the best in them. They may resent the methods used sometimes, but that’s because the two may not have agreed on how the methods should be implemented.
Everyone wants [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged betrayal, brainwashing, Catholic, disappointment, friends, Kempis, life, people, TIA, trial on December 19, 2007 | No Comments »
If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking?
- Thomas á Kempis, Roman Catholic monk and author (ca.1380 - July 25, 1471)
It’s so common we could say it’s a part of our human nature. We expect things of others that we don’t [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged assets, capital, children, education, lesson, life, Litchfield, parent, school, teach, TIA, time, value on December 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
One realizes the full importance of time only when there is little of it left. Every man’s greatest capital asset is his unexpired years of productive life.
- Paul Weeks Litchfield, Goodyear executive and ACF Trustee
Though this is perhaps the most famous of the quotes of “P.W.” it’s by no means the only one that [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged breakdown, cope, distress, emotion, happiness, life, sadness, Seneca, skills, survival, TIA, tragedy on December 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune.
He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has
deprived misfortune of its power.”
- Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher (c. 4 BCE – CE 65)
I’m not certain that happiness consists of enduring the highest and lowest fortune has to offer. Most of us endure such highs [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, tagged alcohol, drugs, grudges, guilt, hurt, Lao-tzu, life, people, philosophy, Psychology, Taoism, TIA on December 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Once upon a time a man whose axe was missing suspected his neighbour’s son.
The boy walked like a thief, looked like a thief, and spoke like a thief.
But the man found his axe while digging in the valley, and the next time he
saw his neighbour’s son, the boy walked, looked and spoke like any other
child.
- [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Spirituality, tagged advertising, evolution, future, God, happiness, life, philosophy, purpose, rock, Sting, television, TIA on December 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I don’t think happiness is necessarily the reason we’re here. I think we’re here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.
- Sting, (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner), CBE (born 2 October 1951)
What does a rock star know about the lives of ordinary people anyway? As it [...]
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