Nothing will get better so long as you believe the other guy is wrong. He will think you are mistaken, or at least that you misunderstand the situation, or he will deny responsibility.
Nothing changes unless the change you want begins with you. You are the only person whose life is totally within your control.
A snowball [...]
Archive for August, 2008
Your Potential For Magnificence
Posted in Blogroll, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged advised, enemies, hill, pull, push, right, selfish, snowball, TIA, toward, wrong on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Schools Teach Children To Be Mindless Consumers
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged advertising, corporate, Galbraith, minds, model, ourselves, positions, pretentious, schools, sources, teach, TIA on August 30, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that
perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position.
Then comes the saddening realization that such people rarely read.
- John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian-born American economist (1908-2006)
Alas, Mr. Galbraith’s statement bore more truth than even he may have realized.
First of all, a Canadian study [...]
Why So Many Women Get It So Wrong
Posted in Blogroll, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged characteristic, confidence, divorce, father, girls, guys, hookers, husband, marriage, marry, partners, prenup, relationships, sex, TIA, wife, woman on August 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For a woman, finding the right man to love her the way she wants to be loved, to be a good father to the children they create together and to provide a healthy, vibrant, creative and enjoyable family environment that will last a lifetime is almost impossible.
Why? While there are many reasons, a few stand [...]
We Are Killing Ourselves But Not With Global Warming
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, World Politics, tagged afraid, air, climate change, Dendel, ended, extinct, fear, global warming, millions, planet, pollution, TIA, water on August 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily
in rust as in rose petals.
- Esther Warner Dendel, writer and artist (1910-2002)
Despite the fact that we are, each of us, part of nature, we understand almost nothing about it.
We have medical healers whose primary function is to make it possible for [...]
How To Know If You Have A First Rate Mind
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged appreciated, brain, decisions, doctor, genius, majority, Milne, minority, perfection, PhD, professor, radical, society, thingamajig, thinker, TIA, whatchmacallit on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority.
The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority.
The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A.A. Milne
The third rate mind never goes anywhere because it is constantly being led by the nose, always follow the behind [...]
What’s Paris Hilton Up To?
Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged adults, alcohol, careless, children, corporations, drugs, governments, harmful, mature, parents, responsibility, role models, societies, Szasz, tabloid, teaching, TIA on August 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern industrial societies to reduce this period to a minimum.
- Thomas Szasz, author, professor of psychiatry (1920- )
I can imagine Dr. Szasz reading this quote again with his tongue stuck so far into his cheek that his cheek goes [...]
It Takes A Lot Of Stupid People To Make A War
Posted in Blogroll, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Afghanistan, Axis, Byron, Germany, Iraq, peace, Russia, soldiers, TIA, US, war on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Religion–freedom–vengeance–what you will,
A word’s enough to raise mankind to kill.
- Lord Byron, poet (1788-1824)
Almost every war is fought under the banner of a religion. Though the religion may not be the primary purpose of the wars, such as it was during the Christian Crusades to “free” the Holy Land from those of another religion, the [...]
Stuff You Should Know About Oil
Posted in Blogroll, Media, Uncategorized, tagged algae, Azerbaijan, Baghdad, Canada, crude, Dark Ages, gasoline, Iraq, Middle East, oil, petroleum, pigs, pipeline, reserves, TIA, USA on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Let’s clear up some misconceptions about oil first. The fossil fuel whose price has skyrocketed recently and whose utility we cherish to run our cars, our furnaces and a load of other machines does not come from the bones of dinosaurs that were crushed 65 million years ago. Nor does it come from the bodies [...]
