Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged abortion, children, development, emotion, justice, life, Parenting, social, TIA on July 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Irony? Hypocrisy? Double standard? No term fits the need to describe the situation where a person who believes in the right to life for a zygote a few days old or a fetus a few days older still is prepared to take the life of another who wants to abort it.
Most people who subscribe to [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged copulation, divorce, lifetime, marriage, monogamy, polygamy, romance, Sagan, sex, TIA on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.
- Carl Sagan, American author and scientist (1934-1996)
Let’s deal with the most obvious example of the truth of this quote, marriage.
In most western countries, the rate of failed marriages (as determined by the rate of divorce) hovers around or above fifty percent. That means that at [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Depression, ecology, Emerson, environment, fear, happiness, life, peace, planet, TIA, violence, war, world on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession to their character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
Think about it. That person who is so negative about the world, isn’t he also a pessimist about his own future and his place in the world?
The loving mother who [...]
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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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 | No Comments »
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke, science fiction novelist (1917-200
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 [...]
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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 | No Comments »
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, [...]
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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 | 4 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 [...]
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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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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Posted in Blogroll, Health Science, Human Nature, Media, Psychology, Uncategorized, tagged Afghanistan, beliefs, facts, fiction, Iraq, lies, Stowe, TIA, trust, truth, WMD on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and slavery abolitionist (1811-1896)
Surely truth is all around us. Our newspapers as well as our radio and television newscasts are filled with truth. Actually, they are filled with facts, many of which have been edited to give [...]
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