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.
Tuesday, 17 May 2011
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.
Monday, 11 April 2011
The criminal thrives in Society's leniency and the greedy thrive in Society's intemperance.
In a world where success is judged only by the accumulation of material wealth, anything goes as far as you have the chinks to show everyone you can. Questionable characters become heroes, entertainers become symbols and football players become millionaires in order that tycoons may be powerful.
Meanwhile, our forests become deserts, our seas become goo and the future of our offspring become darker and darker.
In a world where success is judged only by the accumulation of material wealth, anything goes as far as you have the chinks to show everyone you can. Questionable characters become heroes, entertainers become symbols and football players become millionaires in order that tycoons may be powerful.
Meanwhile, our forests become deserts, our seas become goo and the future of our offspring become darker and darker.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Never Lose Hope
In a world of "instant information", it is easy for us to dispair amid news of pain and suffering. The world is a vast place after all, and in it there are myriad problems, persecutions, greedynesses, wars and sufferings. The news media thrives in doomsday announcements and they would have us sunk into despair and hoplessness.
It is indeed sad that there is so much injustice, yet every period of human history has had overcome grave problems. Though we must address them, we must also never lose hope.
We must also be reminded that where there is injustice, there are also those who fight it and promote justice. Where there is suffering, there is also joy. Where there is evil, there is where good will overcome it. Every environmental problem is an opportunity for us to prove ourselves worthy of this goodly gift, the Earth.
The chief characteristic of every Christian is to respond to the challenges of the world with hopeful hearts and true faith. Act where you can, and trust in God to bestow you, and others like you, with the strength to do it.
It is indeed sad that there is so much injustice, yet every period of human history has had overcome grave problems. Though we must address them, we must also never lose hope.
We must also be reminded that where there is injustice, there are also those who fight it and promote justice. Where there is suffering, there is also joy. Where there is evil, there is where good will overcome it. Every environmental problem is an opportunity for us to prove ourselves worthy of this goodly gift, the Earth.
The chief characteristic of every Christian is to respond to the challenges of the world with hopeful hearts and true faith. Act where you can, and trust in God to bestow you, and others like you, with the strength to do it.
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