The Philosophy of Happiness – The Media & Unrealistic Expectations:
Mainstream Media is full of crap. Images of guys with washboard abs, and chicks with breasts big enough to sink the titanic, why do we think of this as the norm? Go walk outside right now and inspect...
View ArticleWhy Diets Don’t Work:
So you want to go on a diet? Well let me save you what is most likely going to be a lot of pain, suffering and guilt by saying don’t bother. The problem with diets is essentially that they don’t work....
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The Meaning of life (and other trivial concerns!)– An Existentialist Approach:
Probably man’s most asked questions would have to be something along the lines of “why are we here”, in essence “what is our purpose” or as it is often phrased “what is the meaning of life”. This...
View ArticleDiscipline Vs. Desire – Is Discipline Really Such an Omnipotent Virtue?
Most things in our life require balance. It’s a strange fact that is seemingly always the case. Even something often viewed as a virtue such as self-discipline can be overdosed on. You may well know...
View ArticleKangaroo Meat – Good For You AND the Environment:
Kangaroo meat is one of natures many wonders. I know it sounds a bit bizarre, and if you don’t live in Australia probably very foreign, but the facts remains that Kangaroo meat is an excellent choice...
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Free Market Economy/Classical Liberalism Vs. The Welfare State – Which is the...
For years I’ve always shunned the complete Free Market Economy with its emphasis on laissez-faire based capitalism. The problems inherent have always been obvious to me so I have tended to preference a...
View ArticleBreaking an addiction:
Anything can be an addiction in a psychological sense, and this can in turn manifest itself physically as well. Addictions are generally understood to be an interplay between genes and the environment,...
View ArticleThe Art of Blogging – One Month and Counting – Building Traffic and Esteem on...
So it’s been exactly a month since my first post! 31 days to be precise, and I have managed to post daily so far! Personally its rather an achievement to find the motivation to do it, especially seeing...
View ArticleNature Vs. Nurture – A Short Introduction:
I have decided to take on the rather onerous task of investigating the Nature Vs. Nurture debate. For those of you not familiar with it, it debates whether various factors about how we are, are...
View ArticleNature vs. Nurture – Part 1:
Obviously the nature vs. nurture debate is not clear-cut. It is going to be some sort of balance between the two, this is not really in question, rather were on the continuum between genes and...
View ArticleNature vs. Nurture – The Unending Debate Part 2:
Genetics definitely play a large role in how we turn out in life, this is quite obvious. If you’ve ever seen identical twins or even just similar brothers and sisters you can often see similar features...
View ArticleNo Pants Day:
Today is a Monday, and that means I have little in the way oftime, as typically seems to be the case on a Monday. So I decided I’d quickly mention the annual “No Pants Day”! The idea of no pants day...
View ArticleVirtual Reality – Step Into This Giant Hamster Wheel, the Future Awaits...
As a child I was rather fond of a good computer game. To be honest I really don’t see it as greatly disconnected from reading a book. Indeed in some ways I see it as potentially freer as plotlines can...
View ArticleThe Philosophy of Happiness – Accepting Yourself
If you don’t like who you are you’re not going to be happy now are you? There is a fundamental need to accept oneself before one can be happy. Most of us who are in some way unhappy dislike something...
View ArticleNature vs. Nurture – An Intelligent Issue:
Often I have asked the question is Intelligence a genetically inherited trait or one endowed by the environment? Obviously it is a combination of the two, but we must wonder if one of these factors...
View ArticleThe Middle Way:
Recently I have begun to learn about Buddhism, purely out of self interest. I personally am atheist, but Buddhism definitely has some interesting ideas to offer. One idea it offers in the notion of...
View ArticlePositive Thinking:
Positive thinking is essentially just thinking in an optimistic manner, in contrast to thinking in a pessimistic way. How we perceive the world and let external influences effect us is in large part a...
View ArticleIs Guilt a Useless Emotion?
Today I wish to question the use of guilt as an emotion. Guilt is typically defined as feeling culpable and responsible for things past or possibly for things still to come. However isn’t this a little...
View ArticleDamn XP:
It’s been a few days since I last posted and I blame it totally on XP! It was time to do a complete reinstall on my computer, and basically XP refused to install. It was quite a battle to get...
View ArticleWhat do we do now?
Its been a while, but I'm back. I haven't had much of an inclination to write so I simply haven't done so. But today I find myself wanting to write something again. Here I am tackling a big question,...
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