Foot Note: Machiavellianism made Europe hungry for power, culminating into devastating world wars, which basically produced nothing but losers. The gr...
Let us address the most basic issue. The only reason I ponder over definitions and meaning is to learn. The reason I wish to learn is to gain more con...
Science bases its theories and conclusions on observations; perceptions. On the other side dogmatic religions disallow reasoning, substituting 'faith'...
Man, as distinguished from some other animals, like lizards, tigers, snakes, etc. forms social groups, and prefers to live in a society, rather than i...
Words are labels describing names, actions, concepts, etc. Each word creates a different image in each of our minds, according to our accumulated expe...
Knowledge is the accumulation of data. When we have enough dots connected to make a comprehensible mental picture of a subject, it creates a meaning i...
Science moves forward at its own pace, even though the pace is always accelerating. Unfortunately, we know what we know, but we never know how much we...
From the beginning, to find the reasons and remedies for the unpredictable phenomena of nature and life, humans stretched their imagination beyond the...
A community cannot function without some socialism. By definition, socialism is nothing but taking away some individual freedom for the good of whole ...
Autocracies are very efficient, as long as the government is honest. But this cannot work for long, because human greed for power, wealth and fame, ha...
A community cannot function without some socialism. By definition, socialism is nothing but taking away some individual freedom for the good of whole ...
The United States of America was founded on the basis of diffusion of state’s power, curtailing the power’s potential for injustice. The dazzling succ...
After decades of terrorism aimed at us we have started asking loudly why the radical elements of the world hate us. The West, powered by technological...
Any definition has to be based on the available facts. The process of defining the purpose of life has to start with most basic facts available to us....
Everything that happens has a reason, and it becomes the cause for a subsequent event. We call the analysis of this as cause and effect logic. To me t...
Unrestrained capitalism is basically a trickle down economy. Not much trickles down. The rich keeps us poor by exploiting the society, and short chang...
Absence of both, pain and pleasure, is boredom. Pleasure is the opposite of pain. Just as absence of hill at a location is not a hole in the ground th...
By giving pain to others. doctors feel honor and satisfaction, while a criminal self degradation. What we feel becomes us, and builds character. Our c...
Living beings have two basic concerns, security and comfort. Relative global border security created by the conviction recently crystallized in the mi...
Desires contained our mind define us. We call this ego. Our ego tells us what we deserve in life. In accordance with this pursuit of happiness we iden...
Morality is very personal, and cannot be acquired from outside sources. What I feel from interactions with the outside world determines my morality. T...
The United States of America was founded on the basis of diffusion of state’s power, curtailing the power’s potential for injustice. The dazzling succ...
In a revolution common people risk theirs and their loved one's lives. Masses live in their small worlds. They are mostly concerned with their own and...
Mind comprises of desires, either in pure forms or twisted forms (for instance defeated pride can turn into jealousy). Desires fall into six broad cat...
Whenever more than one person decide to live as a group they need to make behavioral adjustments to make the coexistence cooperative. This limits the ...
Capitalism is essential for production. But commercialism is based on greed. Too much economic control in the hands of greed makes the society unhappy...
Our mind is like a child. You have to coax it to change it; harsh methods boomerang. It is like changing a habit, it is a slow process, but success co...
I misunderstood the intention, I thought your feelings were hurt. You are being mighty nice. World with people with honesty of heart makes it beautifu...
You seem to have a wide perspective on the issue of capitalistic behavior, and the effects of Govt. controls. I have lived in more than one economy, a...
It seems like my response to the Philosophy graduates offended some people. I am sorry for making some persons feel bad. I had no intention of it. I a...
It pains me to hear the stories of you 25 and 64 year Philosophy graduates. I hope, we are talking only about the lack of satisfaction of being succes...
I am still learning how to pin point the aims of reply. I may have posted my response in a wrong place earlier. Here it is: It sounds like my write up...
Sounds like my write up was confusing. I apologize. My excuses are that English is my third language and that at times my mind races way ahead of my p...
I have come to the conclusion that if I had taken what came to me without arrogantly feeling that I deserved more, I would have achieved much more in ...
I will try. Brain is a part of the mind, and is not be ignored in the process of figuring things out. My reservation comes from the fact that widely a...
Murder is unethical for a civilian, but is ethical for a soldier. Cutting some one open is unethical for most of us, but not for a surgeon. Similarly,...
The most basic facts I know about myself are: I exist, and I like to be happy. Being in existence does not require any effort on my part, but being ha...
Tolerance comes from compassion. Ego is the opposite. Compassion wants to give, is willing to accept suffering for worthy causes. Ego wants to consume...
Try this for a size: Theory of relativity, backed by some proofs, says time is relative, not absolute. The concepts of space and time do not apply to ...
I question how much control I have on my circumstances. My efforts some times give me more than my expectation, some times less and some times none at...
Any definition has to based on the available facts. The process of defining the purpose of life has to start with most basic facts available to us. Th...
I am also appalled by our average living conditions, and by our average way of thinking. Try this for your thought about improving the wellbeing of th...
Self esteem is how much you like yourself. This comes from being true to yourself rather than following your lust for self gratification. We play our ...
Morality is very personal, and cannot be learned from outside sources. What I feel from interactions with the outside world determines my morality. Th...
Individual acts with the level of mercy in his heart. History is full of examples of people who could forgive the most intense offenses against themse...
We perceive that everything has a cause, and that it becomes reason for a subsequent event. We call the understanding of this cause and effect as logi...
A new born brain is empty. Brain only analyzes experiences starting with birth and stores the results within itself, to be applied to subsequent exper...
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