Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged bribery, business, corporations, government, high school, religion, scandal, stupid, TIA, university, Vizinczey on April 30, 2008 | No Comments »
Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey, Hungarian-born Canadian writer (b. 1933)
One dictionary defines stupidity as “a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience.”
Why would anyone with a higher education be stupid, possibly stupider than someone with less education?
Education–at least the [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Bruce, curriculum, education, friends, lessons, life, marriage, parents, school, sex, teachers, TIA on April 27, 2008 | No Comments »
When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.
- Lenny Bruce, comedian (1925-1966)
It’s a good laugh line for a comedian. Just about everyone remembers that when they were eight years old nobody wanted to include them in adult affairs or conversations. And the adults in Lenny’s audience likely did the same with [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged 2001, AI, brain, C3PO, Clarke, gifts, Hal, intelligence, Jones, Kubrick, robots, space, TIA, toys on April 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones, US critic & educator (1892 - 1980)
Not just your age Mumford, the present one as well.
Many people have an odd fascination with machines with Artificial Intelligence (AI). Two generations ago the most popular Christmas [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Medicine, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Camus, children, development, emotional, learning, parents, school, social, teachers, TIA on April 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus, French writer (1913-1960)
Well, I do, Albert, so where are you so I can refute your statement?
Seriously, Camus was right, some people do go to extensive lengths to be considered normal by others. But why?
We are social animals. As such we have [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cats, divorce, dogs, help, hug, love, needs, parents, secret, TIA, touch, Voltaire on April 23, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s not likely what you think. Don’t be afraid to read this article to learn something. Love is what life is about.
Find the home site of author Bill Allin at http://billallin.com
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, World Politics, tagged advertising, future, health, Marti, peace, people, persuasion, politicians, politics, propaganda, suffering, TIA, war on April 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti, Cuban freedom fighter and hero (1853-1895)
When you read the quotation you might be tempted to think that it was written recently. But Marti, Cuba’s greatest national hero, lived well over a century ago. In the sense of this quotation, nothing [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged goodness, help, hope, Kempis, life, meaning, needs, peace, people, social, Socrates, TIA on April 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
- Thomas A Kempis, German ecclesiastic (1380-1471)
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates, Ancient Athenian philosopher (470-399 BC)
Many people claim they wish they could change the world, but [...]
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Posted in Human Nature, Media, Uncategorized, tagged astronomy, Big Bang, brain, Einstein, genius, physics, quantum, relativity, TIA on April 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Without doubt, Albert Einstein stands as the only true superstar of science. Most educated people admire Socrates, Plato, Copernicus, Isaac Newton and others, but no one can dim the glare of fame that has developed around the name Einstein. It’s known in every culture of the modern world.
Mild mannered, shy and, like many highly intelligent [...]
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Posted in Health Science, Human Nature, Parenting, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged children, development, education, emotions, kids, knowledge, learning, Lincoln, Parenting, parents, schools, skills, social, teaching, TIA on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
“A child is a person who is going to carry on whatever you have started. He is going to sit where you are sitting and when you are gone, attend to those things which you think are important. You may adopt all the policies you please, but how they will be carried out depends on [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Spirituality, Uncategorized, tagged choices, Evans, heaven, hell, hero, kindness, lie, life, love, people, sleep, TIA, wisdom on April 13, 2008 | No Comments »
While I always have a book on my bedside table, waiting to be to read before I go to sleep, rarely do I have one that so absorbs my mind that sleep eludes me while I continue to turn pages. Richard Paul Evans’ novel The Gift is one.
The Gift is admirable not just for its [...]
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