The Question of Morality? [ Morality is about right and wrong in terms of behaviour, or good and bad conduct; so is this found in the inner ground of being of...
I'm proud, relieved, and have abundant confidence in the next generation to self-govern. If there's one existential word that describes the outcome, it is...
I am digesting the results in print and brodcast media. The big win was because of the young, women and hispanics. The new demographics give little quarter to...
Coming out of the Void? [ This whole experience you mention of leaving this world and going into `no time' and then coming back again, then could this coming ...
Corruption and Greed [ " BEIJING (Reuters) - China's outgoing President Hu Jintao warned that corruption threatened the ruling Communist Party and the state, ...
Corruption and Greed in Society When will they ever learn !? A standard of living will never ever cure corruption and greed; and it never causes it. ...
One young voter I spoke to was disappointed with the showing of third party candidates but happy Obama won. I told him to consider the Democratic party as a...
... Here Aviva cannot get sold as perspective buyers do not like the risk analysis. The license to steal has been revoked and as Biden said" This is a big...
Regarding the Corruption and Greed email? [ Dick, I liked your post on China but yahoo blocked my reply. Did you write it? Bill ] The original article was cut...
The Power of Silence? [ You have mentioned the power of sound, especially when related to music, but what do you think of the power of silence? Was that a...
The Most Important Battle? [ Merlin, you mentioned that the most important external event during your life was the world war. In your view of it, and as a...
The Ultimate Human Aim? [ If you get to the bottom of what it is that all these factions are aiming for, no matter whether it is religions, physics,...
Fluke or Pattern? [ What percentage of people would really take mystical experience seriously as being a real way of knowing? And even if ten percent of people...
Speaking Words of Wisdom? [ I have enjoyed reading your posts Merlin of Exmoor, mate; and some of them have indeed been thought provoking. People seem to love...
... As long as Obama is in charge I doubt you will see USA start a stupid war. he is about trying to redistribute the wealth here and it will probably be a...
Et Al [ Merlin, I know little about China, I think few Americans do. Theirs seem a strange hybrid of communism and capitalism. Our politics is beginning to ...
For the greater part of my life I have been a dentist. I headed that direction in undergrad and including dental school it has been the greater part of my life...
The only thing we can say with any certainty about human nature is that it is varied. Not everyone is greedy and corrupt. Not everyone follows the herd; not...
I wish you well with it and hope you have many happy times. Our lives have been so different that they cannot be put in the same shop window, so to speak. But...
... It has been a lock step life for me. Each move carefully planned each segment checked and rechecked. I went rogue for eight years as I figured out the...
Old School in a New Age? [ Merlin, Thank you for the good wishes. Indeed we have taken different paths. It is a beautiful day here today. Sunny and in the...
I have never heard that one. I think of the heavy horse calvelry. The horses charging dead ahead and all else being driven before them. It becomes an attitude...
I have never heard that one. I think of the heavy horse calvelry. The horses charging dead ahead and all else being driven before them. It becomes an attitude...
Following the Masters? [ My leanings to existentialism remain and though I probably will not reread the masters I will continue to relate their precepts to the...
When the student is ready? [ Dedem. What do you make of this famous statement, supposed to be occult, esoteric, arcane or mystical, which ever it is or all of...
Here's a book list for those of you who follow (are interested in) existential writers. http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/1237.Best_Existential_Fiction Audio...
Bill mentioned how his hope has been restored for the younger generation, and I can't help feeling existentialism is tailor made for them. Many are already...
When Ike came home he had to decide what party he would join. I do not think Patreaus had any such trouble. He looked at CIA director as a smooth transition...
Why The Way We Are? [ Why are we made the way we are? Does mystical experience reveal why we are made the way we are? How much of what we become is down to us...
