Zimbabwe - gold for bread
On February - 25 - 20098 COMMENTS
While we are scared that the global financial crisis is stealing our comfortable lifestyles, people in Zimbabwe have to pan for gold powder from the rivers to exchange for food at an exorbitant rate. So perhaps it isn’t that bad for us. : ) Maybe slightly less comfortable, but not nearly as dramatic. Read the rest of this post »
Keeping your mind young and fit
On February - 24 - 20091 COMMENT
When young, you can abuse two things:
1. Your body;
2. Your mind.
Abusing your body usually results in pretty nasty health problems when its youth starts wearing off.
Abusing your mind on the other hand, through constant thinking and study, has very pleasant results in time. You won’t be one of those using the “I’m old, my memory isn’t as good” excuse at 65. You won’t forget why you’re holding a toothbrush in your hand, or that your birthday is five months from today. No memory loss at old age sounds too good to be true? Read on. Read the rest of this post »
The little known truths of free stuff
On February - 20 - 20093 COMMENTS
For years and years, misinformed consumers were duped into paying through the nose for television, music, phone calls and information. NOW IT IS FREE. THIS IS THE FUTURE!
Isn’t it funny how with more and more free stuff around people have less and less money? Getting things for free should mean that you’re saving some money. But it just isn’t true. The opposite is. Free costs more.
Things are offered for free, yes. Free calls. Free music. Free television. Free books. Everything is free, but free is selling you something else. Something that isn’t sold to you directly and isn’t the main focus in the picture. Kind of like the current sidebar featured video (the one with the ball). You’re being told to look at the free stuff while your pockets are being picked (okay not really like that but you get the idea.
In the end, free is just another business model. A better one. You’re paying without being aware that you’re paying, and that makes everything in the sales process easier. Which means that you should be more careful who gives you candy. Yes, remember what your mom told you, “never take candy from strangers.” She was right.
Here are the 4 little known truths of free stuff. Read the rest of this post »
What happiness is not
On February - 19 - 2009ADD COMMENTS
Jainism, one of the oldest religions that originated in India, is a syncretistic religion, which contains many elements similar to Hinduism and Buddhism. Jains have an ancient tradition of scholarship and have the highest degree of literacy in India. Jain libraries are India’s oldest. Tatvagyan Pathmala Part - I (edited by. Dr.H.C. Bharill), a Jain writing, tells us that:
Pleasures arising out of several joys are not happiness. They are, in fact, unhappiness because they have the restlessness, which makes one unhappy. Happiness means ease and complete lack of restlessness and pleasures of senses do not have that mental ease. Whatever we enjoy with the help of the senses is sensual pleasure only. It is a kind of unhappiness. It is happiness in name only. Psychic bliss is above senses and cannot be had from their objects. Just as the soul, being psychic, cannot be achieved with the help of the senses; non-sensory happiness, being in the nature of the soul, cannot be obtained with the help of the senses. Read the rest of this post »
