June 2011
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“One should give up anger, renounce pride,
and overcome all fetters.
Suffering...”
– Gautama Buddha
May 2011
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“Some recluses and brahmins, so called,
Are deeply attached to their own views;...”
– Gautama Buddha
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WatchJoshua Klein on the Intelligence of Crows [This is a truly fascinating look at how adaptive crows are to the world around them. Must watch]
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“One truly is the protector of oneself;
who else could the protector be?
With...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“With good will for the entire cosmos,
cultivate a limitless heart:
Above,...”
– Gautama Buddha
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US High School Student Threatened With Death For...
NORTH LOUISIANA has been described as “the buckle on the Bible Belt” – and not without good reason, as high school student Damon Fowler at Bastrop High School has discovered to his cost.
On the eve of his graduation, the atheist student contacted the school superintendent to let him know that he opposed the inclusion of a prayer at the graduation ceremony. He pointed out that government-sponsored...
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“One should do what one teaches others to do;
if one would train others,
one...”
– Gautama Buddha
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Question of the Day?
What is your greatest fear? Why does it scare you so much? Is it an irrational fear?
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via ancora-imparo)
onthought asked: Just a nod of my agreement to your probably unpopular opinion. Those who are qualified to teach or explain a subject should do so, those who are not, should not. This isn't so much saying "experts" should be the only ones teaching or talking about concepts, just that you should only talk the talk about things you have a reasonable understanding of.
coldbeeranddustyboots-deactivat asked: And for the people who do not run in academic circles but have friends that want to discuss evolution and natural selection? Your reasoning makes you appear to think no one's mind has ever been changed over a drunken conversation at a bar.
Of course there is that slippery slope of weighing the benefits and the damage done by the basically informed attempting to pull the non...
Of course there is that slippery slope of weighing the benefits and the damage done by the basically informed attempting to pull the non...
meditationbytheriverside asked: How do I explain evolution as a fact/valid theory to someone...I can never find the right approach as they either attack the idea of it being purely theory or they attack Darwin.
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Question of the Day?
Are you doing anything different to celebrate the rapture?
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“Through countless births in the cycle of existence
I have run, not finding...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“Whenever and wherever one encounters
the arising and passing away of the...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“Impermanent truly are compound things,
by nature arising and passing away.
If...”
– Gautama Buddha
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You Are Not Alone!
By Shareascare
Ever felt like you had no one to turn to? Well many if not all of us have felt that way at least once in their lives when dealing with personal issues that were either too embarrassing to share or merely too painful to discuss openly.
We at Shareascare.com have created the first anonymous social network support group allocated to everyone who is dealing with personal issues on...
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“The entire world is in flames,
the entire world is going up in smoke;
the...”
– Gautama Buddha
anticapitalist asked: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_luck
maybe?
maybe?
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Question of the Day?
You’re driving down the road and, in a moment of inattention, you run a red light. In one universe a cop pulls you over and gives you a ticket. In another universe you hit a little old lady and kill her.
In the first universe you’re just an ordinary motorist. In the second you’re a shameful monster. But you had no control over the presence of the little old lady; the same (small) list of...
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Porn Addict or Selfish Bastard? Life Is More...
Published on May 6, 2011 by Marty Klein, PhD in Sexual Intelligence
I’m seeing an epidemic of “porn addiction” in my office. Not of porn addiction, but of “porn addiction.”
Here’s how it looks: Wife/girlfriend somehow assumes that husband/boyfriend does NOT watch porn (guess that’s what she means by “he’s one in a million”). One day,...
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Stimulus Control Therapy: 6 Easy Steps to Falling...
Professor Richard R. Bootzin has been researching sleep disorders for many years at the University of Arizona Sleep Research Lab. Writing in the Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, he describes the different psychological approaches that have been used to treat insomnia (Bootzin & Epstein, 2011).
Of these the most successful single intervention is called Stimulus Control Therapy (Morin et...
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“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert
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WatchDan Dennett: Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny
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“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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WatchVS Ramaschandran: The Neurons that Shaped Civilization
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“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“The circumstances of one’s birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with...”
– Mewtwo in “Pokemon: The First Movie”
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“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and...”
– Dr. Seuss
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“In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions...”
– Gautama Buddha
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Did you know?
the word ‘testify’ derived from a time when men were required to swear on their testicles
EDIT: Perhaps not as factual as previously thought.
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“The Universe is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. Our contemplations of...”
– Carl Sagan
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“It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the...”
– Charles Darwin
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“The fever of passion exists not for one
who has completed the journey,
who is...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“As a mother would risk her life
to protect her child, her only child,
even so...”
– Gautama Buddha
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“Speak not harshly to anyone,
for those thus spoken to might retort.
Indeed,...”
– Gautama Buddha