The more developed we become, the more technologically connected we get, the more we regret the loss of our privacy. The media and internet blogs and chat groups wail that we can’t keep anything private any more.
What I wonder is: Why?
Granted, there are personal matter such as finances that are none of anyone’s business except [...]
Archive for June, 2008
The Issue Of Losing Our Privacy
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged computers, fantasy, internet, lesson, life, money, privacy, secret, sex, TIA on June 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World’s Worst Problems Can Be Solved
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Adams, change, children, creative, government, help, international, Iran, Iraq, Mr. Spock, necessary, problems, sea change, solutions, thinking, TIA on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
- Douglas Noel Adams, English author (1952-2001)
No one likes to blame themselves for anything. It’s not easy to accept fault, then lie down nicely and wait for the consequences to assault.
That’s not what Adams is suggesting we should do. He’s recommending that we change ourselves [...]
What Are The Limits Of Possibility?
Posted in Blogroll, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged adventure, Clarke, experiment, extend, future, life, possibility, potential, space, success, TIA, try on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction novelist (1917-2008)
It wasn’t possible for humans to fly, with or without wings. Perhaps the greatest genius of all time–certainly the greatest polymath of all time–Leonardo da Vinci designed a few flying machines, [...]
Do You Know What You Missed As A Child?
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged attitude, child, childhood, Fillmore, future, growing, health, help, learning, life, needs, parent, Parenting, skills, teaching, TIA on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Turn the power of praise upon whatever you wish to increase. Give thanks that it is now fulfilling your ideal.
- Charles Fillmore, cofounder of Unity School of Christianity (1854-1948)
Okay, I accept that the quote sounds like it was spoken directly from a pulpit. But that was the way Fillmore spoke and wrote.
Praise is to human [...]
Buy Your Way To Happiness? Not Likely
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged business, cruelty, Depression, grief, happiness, happy, job, model, money, SAD, TIA, Waitley on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
- Denis Waitley, American inspirational speaker and author (b. 1924)
What the hell does that mean?
If that was your reaction to the quote, you might be a bit light on the happiness scale, [...]
What Our Kids Need To Survive
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged children teaching, crime, curriculum, Disraeli, drugs, help, learning, parents, schools, TIA on June 9, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
- Benjamin Disraeli, British Prime Minister (1804-81)
We humans are naturally inclined to gather into clusters of individual living spaces, whether hamlets or cities, when doing so means we can produce more [...]
Stuff You Didn’t Know About Sexual “Bonding”
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged asexual, bonding, copulation, Discover, husband, mating, pistil, sex, stamen, TIA, wife on June 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
That’s “bonding” in a social sense. It doesn’t mean a male and a female stuck together, mid-copulation, for life.
Monogamy in a sexual sense virtually doesn’t exist in nature. The red fox, noted for its devotion to one mate, slips away occasionally to spread around the good will. The Adélie penguin, also famous for its monogamy, [...]
How To Live A Meaningful Life (seriously!)
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Anderson, devotion, duty, goals, help, life, meaning, objectives, success, tasks, TIA on June 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.
- Greg Anderson
I can’t tell you more about the author of this quote than his name. The quote is so popular that most citations on Google’s lists didn’t even provide [...]
The Mystery Of The Future Revealed
Posted in Blogroll, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, World Politics, tagged children, ecology, forecast, future, government, hope, mystery, planning, prediction, Rilke, TIA, tomorrow, tragedy on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As people used to be wrong about the motion of the sun, so they are still wrong about the motion of the future. The future stands still; it is we who move in infinite space.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet (1875-1926)
This quote struck me because it turns backwards our thinking about the future.
The way we [...]
