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  • AYN RAND ON STEROIDS

    There have always been those individuals who would put making money and/or attaining power above all else. Even going so far as to sell their souls. The difference between then and now, is that now it is considered the right thing to do. “Greed is good”, the underlying philosophy expounded by Gorden Gekko in the…

  • IN A TIME OF PEACE OR WAR

    When coming to that fork in the road, when nations have the opportunity to prepare for peace, or prepare for war, they have almost always chosen the latter. Throughout history, man has learned to distrust his neighbors. It is said that the best way to achieve peace is to be prepared for war. But eventually,…

  • QUOTES YOU DON’T HEAR EVERYDAY

    In the Hemingway novel The sun also rises,  A character named Mike is asked about the way in which he went bankrupt.  “Two ways,” he answered. “Gradually, then suddenly.” The FBI doesn’t share. It eats like an elephant and shits like a mouse. -Michael Connelly, The Law Of Innocence Think “not of what is maximum,…

  • SENIOR CITIZEN’S BLUES REVISITED

    Sometimes I let people down, Sometimes I let myself down Not complaining, just saying, I didn’t know there was an option Everybody needs to take a few steps back, though I know they won’t Too many people look for the easy way to the top Top of what? It’s like cheating, If you have to…

  • HOW EASILY GREATNESS CAN GO AWRY OR NOT

     Hermann Hesse's mother Marie wrote: "The little fellow has a life in him, an unbelievable strength, a powerful will, and, for his four years of age, a truly astonishing mind. How can he express all that? It truly gnaws at my life, this internal fighting against his tyrannical temperament, his passionate turbulence […] God must…

  • SOME ROBERT KENNEDY QUOTES

    ON HOPE:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest…

  • SOME QUOTES

     The two most important days of your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.    —–    Mark Twain  “Life is on the wire. The rest is just waiting.”–One of the Flying Wallendas           What do they call a leader with no followers?….  Just a…

  • A NATURAL VIEW OF RELIGION

    We are here on this planet thanks to an amazing force that endowed people with the ability to discover and control complex and original ideas, created DNA and allowed for evolution. An incredible array of beauty and relentless times of destruction are but a couple of examples of the incredible power of the creator. Realizing…

  • Bonhoeffer’s “theory of stupidity”: We have more to fear from stupid people than evil ones

    Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German theologian and anti-Nazi dissident who was executed in Germany in 1945.1 Bonhoeffer’s ideas and beliefs have continued to resonate long after his death, particularly his theory of stupidity. Bonhoeffer argued that it was not evil people who were the greatest danger to society- it was stupid people. Bonhoeffer's theory of stupidity:…

  • OMAR KHYYAM- MATHEMATICIAN, POET, ASTRONOMER, HISTORIAN, AND PHILOSOPHER

    Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears. The Moving Finger writes; and having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. To wisely live your life, you…

  • THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

    “All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed; second, it is violently opposed; and third, it is accepted as self-evident.”   –Schopenhauer(19th Century Philosopher)  The club motto of (The Bohemian Club),  "Weaving Spiders Come Not Here", a line taken from Act 2, Scene 2, of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.  implies that outside concerns and…

  • ALBERT EINSTEIN- THE GOD LETTER

    Dear Mr Gutkind,     Inspired by Brouwer’s repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me … With regard to the factual attitude to life and to the human community we have a great deal in common. Your personal ideal with its striving for…

  • Some thoughts of the day

      Let others praise you. It is unbecoming to praise yourself.  Coolidge devotedly articulated Garman’s ethics forty years later: “There is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting…

  • Pope Francis: Evolution and Big Bang Theory Are Real

             Big Bang theory and evolution in nature "do not contradict" the idea of creation, Pope Francis has told an audience at the Vatican, saying God was not “a magician with a magic wand.” The Pope’s remarks on Monday to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences appeared to be a theological break from his predecessor Benedict…

  • The Church In All Its Many Faces

    While the Church  provides a religious belief, it also provides structure and a family center, a sense of camaraderie, education, and care for the poor and infirm.  The Church, in it's self proclaimed role as intermediary to G-d, holds itself up to a higher set of standards, and asks it's followers to obey the strict…

  • CONTRARIAN’S ROADMAP

    Lotto Lotto tickets that print NOT A WINNER….. really, is  that the best we can do.  How about: BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME.  or                                                                   …

  • Some Thoughts on Politics, War and Peace

       "Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing… after they have exhausted all other possibilities."—Winston Churchill     "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it , misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies."–Groucho Marx        "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue,…

  • Interesting Presidential Resume

    We are faced with the possibility of having a President or Vice President who feels strongly that he is capable and knowledgeable enough to lead our country, but who doesn't believe in any of the science that tells us that the earth and universe are older than a few thousand years. There are those who…

  • Maintaining the Center

    The I Ching or Book of Changes, has been highly thought of by many, and dismissed by others.  Whether you are an adherent to it's basic philosophies or to it's more intriguing prophetic capabilities, it has endured over the centuries. The positive approach of it's answers to every day questions make it a comfort and…