Category Philosophy
Nationalism – a Semantic Short Circuit
Today is the National Holiday in Sweden. In recent years the National Holiday has become the subject of much argumentation as to its validity and whether or not it is inclusive or exclusive. I browsed through the major editorials covering the broad spectrum of views on this subject, as well as the public commentary following […]
FUNDAMENTALS OF A HUMAN SOCIETY
“I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and in thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.”
Truth – Imposed or Self-discovered
“The best teachers don’t hand you the answers on a silver platter, but point out the way and let you make up you own mind about which road and which destination, while advising where the ditches are.”
Interaction – an empirical note to self
“So this made me think, do the fundamental steps to developing anything consist of 1) Survival, 2) Observation and 3) Interaction?”
COMMONISM – AS IN COMMON SENSE
“Isn’t it time we change how we view politics and base it on common sense instead of some ideology dreamed up over a hundred years ago when circumstances were utterly different than now?”
REALITY
“We are all captives of the picture in our head – our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.”
Hong Kong 15 October 2014 – An Overview
“So where do we go from here and what will happen? That is a good question. One thing I am pretty certain of is that Hong Kong will never be the same again, whatever the outcome.”
HONG KONG AND DEMOCRACY
Whether you think so right now or not, the people in Hong Kong enjoy the same advantages of a democratic society (outside of electing their own Chief Executive) as most other democratic countries, even if its political system can’t technically be called a “democracy”.
NOT HAPPY ABOUT IT? DO SOMETHING!
“So things do not simply go right because one is holy or one is good. Things run right because one makes them run right.”
Hong Kong: For Your Consideration – IF
“If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;”
Warewhulf 