Which philosophers do you find most helpful? Mar 15, 2007 6:11 am 645 Views Philosophers in all parts of the world have helped us live happier lives. Those I've benefited from so far include Dharma, Krishna, Lao-tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Gibran, Gandhi, King, Mandela, Hubbard, Null, Ruiz, et al... Was it Plato or Philo who said, "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle"? Which other philosophers would you recommend to us? Please tell us how and why they have helped you and others. 0 Comments

What effective small & large actions can we start now to begin increasing peace & fairness... Mar 13, 2007 5:09 am 780 Views ...& health & happiness in our own homes and neighborhoods and workplaces, and in the world? 2 Comments

Should workers and mangers be friends and freely work together for the well-being of all? Mar 12, 2007 6:39 am 811 Views Can and should we freely cooperate together to create what no one can produce alone? Can and should we freely share fairly? Can and should workers, artists, scientists, intellectuals, caregivers, salespeople, managers, owners, civil servants, politicians, religious or ethical leaders, and others freely respect and trust and support one another? How can we best succeed at achieving harmony and sharing and fairness without giving up freedom? What are your ideas? 4 Comments

Are 20% of people overly defensive? Mar 10, 2007 6:22 pm 715 Views Do 20% of people speak in generalities instead of in specifics? Do 20% of people communicate mostly bad news, gossip, rumors, critical or hostile remarks, invalidation, and general suppression? Do 20% of people alter communications to worsen them, or exaggerate or invent bad news? Do 20% of people not respond to treatment or reform? Do 20% of people have family, friends, and associates who are not succeeding, but acting crippled in life or ill or insane? Do 20% of people select the wrong cause of all problems, so that they can't fix anything? Are 20% of people incapable of finishing an action, so that they are surrounded with incomplete projects? Will some people freely confess to the most alarming crimes, but without any faintest sense of any responsibility for them? Do 20% of people approve only of destructive actions, but fight against constructive or helpful actions or activities? Do 20% of people support only destructive groups, but rage against and attack any constructive or betterment group? Is helping others an activity that drives 20% of people nearly berserk, but do they closely support activities that destroy in the name of help? Do 20% of people have a bad sense of property, and conceive that the idea that anyone owns anything is a pretense made up to fool people, that nothing is ever really owned? Do 20% of people have delusions of self-importance and grandeur, delusions of being attacked and accused and persecuted, delusions of justification and innocence? 1 comment

Are thought and memory done in the brain... Mar 10, 2007 2:21 pm 825 Views ...or in energy fields that may extend far from the body...or spiritually without need of anything physical? 2 Comments

Is Bush loyal to his fellow war criminals, or does he dump them as fall guys? Mar 8, 2007 11:26 am 687 Views Bush is not loyal to his soldiers. He sends them into battle untrained, without body armor, without vehicle armor, without gas masks. When they come home with infections and poisonings from biological and chemical weapons (that were originally supplied to Saddam Hussein by the US for his earlier war with Iran), Bush has them diagnosed as "combat fatigue" and refuses them treatment for their actual conditions but only treats them as psycho cases. And there are many other ways in which Bush and his cohorts do not support the troops. Bush is loyal only to the multinational banking and corporate elite. I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was convicted yesterday of lying to hide war crimes committed by many or all the top members of the current Bush administration. He will likely go to jail for many years. But probably none of them will be punished for their many horrible war crimes, including knowingly false assertions that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction or was acting to obtain them, knowingly false continual insinuations that Iraq had ties with al-Qaeda and 9/11, unilateral preemptive invasion, intentional destruction of civilian water purification facilities, torture, extraordinary rendition (kidnapping and transporting to illegal detention centers in third countries where suspects may be tortured), etc., etc. Citations for all the above may be found at the website of Gary Null and many other sources. 0 Comments

Shall we forgive everyone seventy times seven? Mar 7, 2007 2:24 pm 818 Views For our own peace of mind and heart and soul, shall we forgive everyone everything? When we forgive, shall we automatically agree and condone and trust the person we forgave? Shall we forget what they've done? Should the other person admit what they've done, completely and sincerely? Should the other person apologize completely and sincerely? Should the other person change their ways completely and sincerely? Should the other person make up for any damage they may have caused, completely and sincerely? Matthew 18:15-35 12 Comments

How can we all help one another to build a better World together for everyone? Mar 6, 2007 6:44 am 816 Views How can we work together with other citizens to gradually reduce pollution and clean up our environments? How can we work together with other citizens to gradually make our societies safer and fairer? How can we work together to encourage crafts and arts and education and wisdom and loving kindness and culture and science at all levels of society? Should we try to improve our governments, or should we bypass them and work together as independent citizen groups to make the important improvements in our societies by ourselves, or should we try both at once? How can we work together to gradually make healthcare more available, less expensive, safer, more effective, and more freely diverse to include alternative methods of healthcare? Should the laws governing healthcare favor drugs and surgery above gentler methods of healthcare, or should the laws give equal freedom to all safe effective methods of healthcare? Should drug manufacturers be trusted to decide for us what besides drugs and surgery is safe and effective, and what isn't? Should politicians accept money from drug manufacturers? What else could we do together to gradually improve our societies and environments, and to enrich our lives? 4 Comments

Secrets? Mar 5, 2007 1:43 pm 840 Views Which of our secrets might who know about? What are we hiding that who might know about? What have we done that who might know about? What have we omitted doing that who might know about? What have we done differently that who might know about? Who might know what we've said that we shouldn't have said? Who might know what we've left unsaid that we should have said? Who might know what we've said differently from what we ought to have said? Which of our motives, intentions, purposes, plans, daydreams might who know about? Which of our fears, terrors, paranoias, delusions might who perceive? Can anyone read our minds? Can anyone see through us like glass? Can anyone perceive the pictures and voices in our imaginations? Does anyone notice that we bitterly accuse others of whatever we do ourselves? Do we ever try to distract, introvert, confuse, mislead, upset, weaken, or blind others so they won't perceive what we're doing and won't be able to attack us? Are any of our compliments and jokes and constructive criticisms of others half-intended to support and amuse and help but half-intended to...? Do others know who we are? Do others know what we're doing? Will we get away with it? 4 Comments

Does Applied Scholastics help students of all ages to learn all subjects more easily? Mar 1, 2007 4:23 am 723 Views Does it help them to be able to use what they study, and to apply what they learn to real life? 0 Comments

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