Independent Thinking
Differences and Diversity in Life
Sunday, July 26th, 2009Life is not about making everyone agree with you, nor about making everyone the same as you.
And it is certainly not about shunning or even destroying those who do not have similar views or take the same side as you.
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Have You Been Investing in the Most Important Thing of All?
Saturday, July 18th, 2009What have you invested in lately?
Stocks? Bonds? Property?
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Ron Paul Speaks at CPAC 2009
Monday, March 30th, 2009This short video clip shows American Congressman Ron Paul speaking to CNN’s TJ Holmes, while he was at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2009. Ron Paul was a former presidential candidate.
If you don’t already know about Ron Paul, please do. He comes across as a genuine good man, with excellent philosophies on liberty, health [...]
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In Search of Reasons and Causes
Saturday, February 21st, 2009Are you looking at a certain event or certain circumstances in your life and wondering what the cause(s) or reason(s) is / are?
Have you been seeking and searching, trying your darnest, but to no avail so far?
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Is Consumerism The Only Way To Give Our Children Something To Look Forward To?
Friday, February 20th, 2009If you have not already noticed by now, I often rant against modern day consumerism and materialism.
Quite simply, I think it is an empty shell which does not satisfy the human soul; perhaps it pleases, but only superficially and fleetingly. And it is most certainly not sustainable. At the rate the first world is consuming [...]
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Forwarded Emails - How Real are Their Stories?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Do you frequently receive forwarded emails in your inbox?
Do you often forward them on?
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Is Modern Civilization Crumbling?
Thursday, February 19th, 2009Modern civilization as we know it is extravagant and woefully wasteful. Most people in the developed world are not dying because of lack of food; we are dying from being stuffed full of junk foods.
We spend and waste Mother Earth’s resources at an alarming rate. We not only plunder the environment, we treat animals, our [...]
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Why I Don’t Follow the Mainstream Media - I Do Not Wish to Fill My Life With Bad News (5 of 5)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009How often do you hear someone remarking how terrible the world has become, how horrible it is today, and how apocalypse is near because the human race has turned oh-so-evil?
In my mind, I’m thinking – oh, please.
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Why I Don’t Follow the Mainstream Media - I Wish to Avoid this Fear-Mongering Machine (4 of 5)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009The media is writing stories to sell. And one thing which sells extremely well is fear. The news, and the media in general, is a lot about fear mongering.
If you don’t take precautions and vaccinate yourself (vaccinations come with a whole host of poisonous chemicals and health risk, by the way. They are one major [...]
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Why I Don’t Follow the Mainstream Media - I Wish to Avoid Being Brainwashed (3 of 5)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009The power and influence of mass media is subtle yet immense. It hits not only our conscious mind, but deep within our subconscious.
Some of us are aware of the negative influences of media. Yet we continue to indulge in it. Why? Because most of us think “we are different”, that somehow we are sufficiently in [...]
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Why I Don’t Follow the Mainstream Media - It Presents Only a Small and Biased View of Reality (2 of 5)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009Over seven years ago, I was fixated on CNN for 8 to 12 hours every day, allowing the American media to brainwash me on how evil the Taliban regime was, and convincing me, I’m sure among millions of others, to give our mandate for the American military to walk into the country by force and [...]
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Why I Don’t Follow the Mainstream Media - Summary (1 of 5)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009I no longer have the newspapers delivered to my home daily. It has been that way for a few years now. I barely read them, and I rarely watch the news on television, too. In general, I follow the mainstream media very little nowadays.
I stopped watching the news and reading the newspapers partly because of [...]
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The Road Less Travelled; Making a Difference
Friday, December 26th, 2008Are you a vegetarian for health, environmental and / or humanitarian reasons?
Do you believe and / or fight for the rights of animals, our fellow owners and heirs of planet Earth?
Do you shun the consumerism which is enveloping so many developed and developing countries?
Do you believe in a power far greater than anything we can [...]
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Why Do People Dream of a White Christmas?
Friday, December 26th, 2008Generally speaking, I am hugely critical of the consumerism which Christmas now represents, or the Christmas which consumerism now represents, whichever way you look at.
Just now, I happened to be looking at an online Christmas postcard, and another though crossed my mind.
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