It is insufficient in the human mind to accept any code of ethics without a greater value to support it.
We are intelligent enough to interpret and decide what is and what isn't convenient for us, and we are egotistical enough to bend the rules to our advantage whenever it suits us. This often results in our stepping over the rights of other people (and of other beings) in order to achieve our goals.
Therein lays the danger of our time: Absolute pragmatism and fanatical secularism lead to that exact outcome of wanton cruelty, irresponsibility and heartlessness.
That is why religion/spirituality is of utmost importance to any society.
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Do You Love Your Car?
Do you love your car? Do you love it more than life itself? I ask because it may well come to that.
Private automobiles are responsible for the gratest portion of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. In other words, cars make up for the greatest portion of pollution entering your lungs and contributing to climate-change in the global environment.
Why do we keep to cars then? Is it because they are so indispensable? No. We love them because we were taught that they provide us with social status, with convenince and principally because we take pleasure in owning them. Other than that, the automobiles are a readily replaceable solution for private/public transportation; though our societies have come to depend much on them.
For instance, the obsolescence of the private automotive transportation model for great urban centres is obvious to anyone who gets stuck in traffic on a daily basis. What's missing both in governments and in the general gender is the courage to change.
Private automobiles are responsible for the gratest portion of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. In other words, cars make up for the greatest portion of pollution entering your lungs and contributing to climate-change in the global environment.
Why do we keep to cars then? Is it because they are so indispensable? No. We love them because we were taught that they provide us with social status, with convenince and principally because we take pleasure in owning them. Other than that, the automobiles are a readily replaceable solution for private/public transportation; though our societies have come to depend much on them.
For instance, the obsolescence of the private automotive transportation model for great urban centres is obvious to anyone who gets stuck in traffic on a daily basis. What's missing both in governments and in the general gender is the courage to change.
Friday, 13 May 2011
Balance
Good begets good. Despair brings hopelessness. Violence responds to violence. Evil begets evil. Such is the balance that the cosmos uses in order to drive away chaos.
This may be an indirect cosmic relation to our individual actions, but it makes us personally responsible for the reality that will greet our children when they arrive.
Our deeds are the wind that blows into the sails of our Society and selfless service onto others is what makes a man noble beyond his animal nature.
This may be an indirect cosmic relation to our individual actions, but it makes us personally responsible for the reality that will greet our children when they arrive.
Our deeds are the wind that blows into the sails of our Society and selfless service onto others is what makes a man noble beyond his animal nature.
True Democracy
Language is the only true expression of Democracy.
You can be a scholar and write grammar books, you can teach syntax and pronunciation, you can be a erudite linguist and a literate, but in the end, whatever people want to say goes.
If most people say something, even if completely new or grammatically incorrect, it goes into a dictionary and becomes the rule.
Here's Mankind's greatest democratic achievement.
You can be a scholar and write grammar books, you can teach syntax and pronunciation, you can be a erudite linguist and a literate, but in the end, whatever people want to say goes.
If most people say something, even if completely new or grammatically incorrect, it goes into a dictionary and becomes the rule.
Here's Mankind's greatest democratic achievement.
Thursday, 12 May 2011
Cosmic Balance
Good begets good. Despair brings hopelessness. Violence responds to violence. Evil begets evil. Such is the balance that the cosmos uses in order to drive away chaos.
This may be an indirect cosmic relation to our individual actions, but it is an existent one nonetheless. It makes us personally responsible for the environment we jointly generate. It makes us privy to the winds that blow at the sails of our Society, and it makes us responsible for the reality that will greet our children when they come.
Selfless service onto others is what makes a man noble beyond his animal nature.
This may be an indirect cosmic relation to our individual actions, but it is an existent one nonetheless. It makes us personally responsible for the environment we jointly generate. It makes us privy to the winds that blow at the sails of our Society, and it makes us responsible for the reality that will greet our children when they come.
Selfless service onto others is what makes a man noble beyond his animal nature.
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