Category: General Thinking
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Suffering
Is the purpose of human life. Ambition ~ The emotion that leads to self-inflicted suffering If you look back at all the work that you did, I am sure it is going to be that one project that kept you up through the night; that seemed impossible to finish, which you would remember fondly. I…
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Observe
Picture this. You are sitting in a train that is stationary on the platform. There is another train standing on the other side of the platform. You look out from your train and you see people milling about and you see the other train. The time to leave draws closer. And then you see movement.…
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Optimists
I would have never considered myself an optimist. I was reading a book recently that changed my mind. Every problem has a solution. The only thing holding us back from finding the solution is the lack of knowledge. If an asteroid had crashed into our planet 2000 years ago, humans could have done little but…
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Entropy
Entropy is a theoretical property of thermodynamic systems. Entropy measures the degree of disorder in a system. The laws of thermodynamics state that heat always move from hot to cold and never in reverse and this action is not reversible. If you have seen what happens to a bowl of water that is brought to…
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Explanation and Exception
Why are there seasons on our planet? The ancient Greeks used to had their lore. Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter was abducted by Hades, the lord of the underworld. When Zeus consented to Persephone being married to Hades; Hades made a concession to allow her to visit her mother for 8 out of…
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Chance and Life
The lore goes – when Edison created the light bulb he said “I did not fail a thousand times, I just found a thousand ways how not to make a light bulb.” Now, think about that for a minute. If you tried to do something a thousand times. It shows determination but it also shows…
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Burn your Ship
The story Hernán Cortéz is often cited by many as an act of bravery and courage. He left on an expedition to South America and upon arrival at Mexico, the first thing that he did was to ask his crew to burn the ships. There was going to be only one way out – Victory!…
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Hard Work
is for fools! In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty. ~ Proverbs 14:23 Americans did not invent capitalism. It was around 2000 years before the country even came into being as evidenced above. The Americans perfected it. There is a myth that is at the heart of capitalism; the…
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To be good…
You have to be willing to be bad first… When I started writing this blog, I did, because there were those who told me that I spoke well and I should probably write. First of all, speaking and writing are two incredibly different skill. As much as singing and dancing are. Just because you are…
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Discernable Difference
This blog will meander before it arrives at its point. Please play along. When you see an image on a computer, it is produced by lighting up individual dots on the screen with a colour corresponding to its position. We call these dots pixels. In the image above, the first image is 14 pixels per…