Archive for March, 2010
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
If you happen to be one of the millions of people who either read or listen to the success self-help gurus that the USA seems to be able to generate in their thousands sprouting such terms as NLP, the Secret, 10 habits and other such like, the you would recognise ...
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Monday, March 29th, 2010
"Money brings happiness. Fine. In that case, everyone who earns enough to have a high standard of living would be able to stop work. But then they’re more troubled than ever, as if they were afraid of losing everything. Money attracts money, that’s true. Poverty might bring unhappiness, but money ...
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
“If you cannot be by yourself for an hour, or for a day, or for a week then you don’t like yourself” so rants ‘Payroll da Pimp’ in his ‘Rebirth’ audio book. [WARNING : Do not look this book up if you are easily offended – whilst the book is ...
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Saturday, March 27th, 2010
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Many people attribute the above quote to the US constitution when in fact it comes from ...
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Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
You see them after travelling peak hours in the UK, every weekday, shuffling on the buses with their free passes, in some places trying to get on the bus before off peak time. You see them once or twice a week queued up outside post offices and if you happen ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
For the first time in Scotland a family who donated their dead relatives organs and the person that received one of them have met. See BBC News - Mother meets girl who received sons liver. This story made me feel good about the fact that I have chosen and made ...
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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010
"As you move into your forties and fifties, the recognition of your own mortality becomes more and more a part of decision-making. You realize that you're not going to be around forever. Your choices become a lot more precious. The gap between your dreams and what you're actually doing narrows, ...
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Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
'Place in the sun' - a place/environment that promotes a sense of success, happiness, or prosperity.
I have a friend who likes to go to Thailand. For the past few years, he has visited at least once a year and in some years twice. He has been to other parts of ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
The number of men applying for teacher training has risen sharply because of the recession, says the body responsible for training teachers. There was an over 50% rise in the number of men applying to be primary school teachers; see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8550506.stm for the story.
I have to ask myself whether the ...
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
A news story this morning caught my attention. It was about the fact that bonobos, one of our closest primate relatives, prefer to share their food rather than eat alone.
"Dr Hare said it could be purely altruistic, or more selfish motives could drive this behaviour because sharing could be exchanged ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
'I'm Not Black, I'm Coloured - Identity Crisis at the Cape', an "historical documentary film to explore the legacy of Apartheid through the viewpoint of the Cape Coloured community" came to my notice recently via a Facebook page collating Zimbabwean mixed race history mainly through photographs. Channel 4’s recent documentary ...
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
This morning, my son gave me one of those school photograph packs from school. You know the ones I mean? Where the schools get the photographer in and then encourage us, the gullible parents, to pay over the odds for the photographs? I do understand that school get a cut ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
I can't remember where I heard this little tit-bit but it is one I always recall it whenever I have to tell someone I am an atheist. In the story, a Muslim man asks a Christian man why is it he (the Christian) is afraid to die if he truly ...
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