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Here’s an interesting game to play with a group of friends: ask each person for the oldest and youngest ages that they would consider for a relationship with a partner.
First off, I'm sorry. I know that the London riots of last year have already been analysed and overanalysed to death. I'm getting sick of the left wing justifications.
OK, so this one isn’t for the feint-hearted or the weak-stomached. Best to leave your emotions in a jar by your computer, and try and read this with as open a mind as possible.
A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him.
A Thursday musing...please feel free to discuss. Would welcome input and thoughts... One assumes that time travel is not possible.
I am writing this because I feel that people don't understand what god means anymore. God is a non physical being, more of a thing than a someone, who created the universe.
The deep mystery of the night surrounds us. Many people have written, explored and even tried to explain the night in science but I don't think the night can be explained in any possible way.
People say there is a fine line between madness and genius, I think it's more like different shade's of the same colour .
People say "If you give than you will receive" but if you only give to receive than that is pretty selfish. You should give for the goodness of giving. Not so you can just get something in return.
"Every other man spoke a language entirely his own, which he had figured out by private thinking; he had his own ideas and peculiar ways.
This genuinely changed my outlook on life.
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had...
Life is a neverending cycle and we are all interdependent.We need each other and we share whatever we have, willingly or unwillingly.
People are constantly telling me to "be myself", but what if I don't know who that is. Maybe I am not truly happy with the way I have been modelled and there are things I want to change.
Don't panic as immortalised by Douglas Adams and Lance Corporal Jack Jones is my simple guide in life. It stood by me thru some of life's most trying times and continues to be there for me now.
Just something for you to think about... You become a Christian to become a better person right. But you convert and they teach you about heaven and hell.
There was once a cat and a tiger. The cat taught the tiger everything he knew. One day the tiger turned on the cat; the cat ran up a tree. That was the one trick the cat never taught the tiger.
I know sometimes we think too much, Some shallow ideas and thoughts. Deeply Philosophical are most of them, Like Confucius and Marx.
"You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window.
People cannot choose where, when, and into what conditions they are born. From the moment of birth, each person must live on life's terms. The world is cruel. But that's only natural.
No matter where you go danger shall always follow you. The danger, death, death itself. Although death isn't something to be feared. It is something to be forgotten and remembered later in life.
There are many different religions and cults it makes it harder for people to know which one is for them.
Yin and Yang. Two polar opposites, but they can't go anywhere without the other. They're too strongly attracted.
Life can be a bitch, excuse my language. Anyhow it can be pretty cruel. It'll throw some obstacles at you, it'll knock you down, and it'll push you back down once you get up.