Modern Life
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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Isn’t Life Ultimately About Relationships?
Saturday, July 18th, 2009What have you been busy with lately?
Chasing your dream? Making money? Building the foundations of your career?
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Poverty, Hunger and Starvation; A Sobering Perspective - Chicken a la Carte (Video)
Thursday, April 16th, 2009While we in the developed world have more than enough to eat and use, and are in fact suffering from physical diseases arising from excess, many others are dying of starvation. Statistics vary depending on their source, but thousands worldwide could be dying of hunger… DAILY.
This short 6-minute video clip, which was part of the [...]
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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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Humans Are Stripping The Earth Bare Through Overconsumption
Monday, March 30th, 2009Human beings and modern civilization are plundering nature at a rate never seen before. If current trends were to go on, we will need the natural resources provided by two Earths by the year 2050. And that’s assuming we have not exhausted Earth’s resources by then. This and other details were revealed by a report [...]
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What Does It Mean To Be Alone?
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Do you sometimes or often feel lonely, or alone?
What does it even mean to be alone?
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Can We Fully Enjoy Both Material Wealth and the True Richness of Life?
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009Can one wholeheartedly chase material wealth, yet still keep focused on the things which matter in life?
Can one fully enjoy the pleasures of materialism and consumerism, yet still swim in the warmth of kinship, warmth and love?
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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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Frightening People Come Out On The Internet
Sunday, February 15th, 2009The internet brings a world of information to our fingertips. But it also opens many cans of worms.
Among them, is the “coming out” of all kinds of people.
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The 8GB Thumb Drive; A Classic Case of the Lures of Consumerism
Sunday, January 11th, 2009The modern world today is one of extreme consumerism, a culture which is doing its part to exploit the third world as well as kill Mother Earth. Consciously or, probably as is the case for most of us, subconsciously, we are fuelling this culture by our actions and habits.
I have a recent personal experience which [...]
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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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Stampede at Walmart in New York
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008Quite recently, there was a piece of news of hectic shopping taking place in a Walmart store in New York.
There was early morning shopping, there was a long queue of shoppers waiting outside the door, the doors opened at 5am or so, and everyone rushed right in. And guess what happened?
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The Contradiction of Holiday Decorations
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008I came across this thought in another article by someone else, and I found it somewhat amusing, yet also disturbing in a way.
It is Christmas time, and over in the United States, many families have put out the Christmas decorations on their lawn - infant Jesus, Mary, Joseph, wise men, sheep, manger scenes, etc. All very nice and [...]
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Life’s Plans and Expectations against Life’s Unpredictability and Uncertainty
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008Ever heard of the term ‘life expectancy’? I’m sure you have. It gives us a rough gauge of how long we can expect to live.
Too much about life these days is about expectancy, projections, what’s expected, and what not.
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Seeking Solutions Instead of Looking for Problems and Obstacles
Monday, October 20th, 2008Have you thought about why you are not healthier than you are now?
Have you thought about why you are not doing the things which you know are right for your body, such as eating better food and exercising more?
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