Doesn’t hearing “I love you” sometimes make you want to throw up?

The success of a relationship is measured by two main attributes: love and loyalty.  But how many times have you heard, “I love you!” or “I will always be there for you!” before finding yourself betrayed and humiliated by a partner to whom you had given all your...

Would you rather believe in Mister Right or in Santa Claus?

No one has ever seen the real Santa Claus.  Of course, around Christmas, there are as many Santa Clauses as there are shopping malls in the country.  But they all are copies of the same myth.  Interestingly enough, that sounds very much like Mister Right,...

Should you change for someone?

Have you ever had the desire or even felt the utter necessity to change parts of what you are to please someone?  Have you ever wondered whether he or she would love you more or finally see you, if you were to change your attitude, parts of your physical appearance, or...

Is depression a real illness or a moral weakness?

Every time I hear doctors affirm that depression is a brain disease that they can easily treat thanks to loads of anti-depressors, it truly frightens me.  Put yourself in the shoes of an individual who has been feeling down for a while, and who is being told that he or...

Standard Model vs Other Model

God is not part of religion concepts in physics can affect society God becomes a testable concept                 SM/convention      OM mass            virtual Higgs     ...

Search for better middle

There are many people who look for the middle; but the middle can be found in any number of places. The middle between private sector and public sector can be found in both preventing the other from doing its job; or it can be found in both being able to do their work and...

Immanuel Kant and Scott Peck

Scott Peck was to psychology what Immanuel Kant was to Western philosophy. In the same way as Kant had used philosophy, after a blossoming during Enlightenment and Romanticism, to affectuate a return to the Protestant dogmas that philosophy had sought to replace, so did Peck...

Search for a better middle

There are many people who look for the middle; but the middle can be found in any number of places. The middle between private sector and public sector can be found in both preventing the other from doing its job; or it can be found in both being able to do their work and...

The End Of The Beginning?

In the nineteen sixties and seventies the western world was in the throes of a cultural and psychological revolution of awareness that at times threatened to bring down the governments and destroy the societies of...

When Bambi met Godzilla

I am contemplating the larger view of things today – “world without end” and the “almighty,” and such. Everything is a matter of perspective and viewpoint, isn't it? Unsuspecting Bambi didn't see or hear...

Do you know anything in this world is between 'Yes' or 'No'?

Anything in this world is between ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and this trigger us recall the relativity theory. There is nothing absolute in this world and absolute ‘yes’ or absolute ‘no’ is a wrong conclusion. If absolute, may be the Almighty God! Do you think 2+3=5? It...

Immanuel Kant and Scott Peck

Scott Peck was to psychology what Immanuel Kant was to Western philosophy. In the same way as Kant had used philosophy, after a blossoming during Enlightenment and Romanticism, to affectuate a return to the Protestant dogmas that philosophy had sought to replace, so did Peck...

Boston Globe Obituary writer shares 6 life lessons: from the dead

" What does an obituary writer learn about life from covering the dead? [Boston Globe] asked the Globe's Bryan Marquard, who has written nearly 800 obituaries since switching to that beat three and a half years...

Nietzsche: His hatred was a pious and holy kind

Although this may not be of interest to everyone,  as a philosopher who did my honors thesis on Nietzsche's Geneology of Morals I cannot resist:  Finally,  a book which views Nietzsche as I always viewed him. Walter Kaufmann,  that famous Nietzsche...

Hoekstra opposes federal government entering US schools

Congressman Pete Hoekstra who represents Michigan's Second Congressional District, and who is a strong supporter of Parents' Rights, opposes the federal government further entering United States schools. Next...

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