Happiness: You Are A Good Man Charlie Brown

Had unexpected ice cream and sweet bread with Ahmed and Irina at the study group yesterday that, for the record, I’d love to post this cute song and video to remind me of happiness!    

Save the Tigers!

To celebrate the year of the tiger, WWF has a wonderfully hyped cause to save them from extinction. Use Facebook to add a tiger mask, tiger stripes or paw prints to your profile picture to participate in spreading awareness about the current plight of tigers. Learn more   (This Facebook video is very nice) The [...]

What if Eve had a gay friend in paradise?

Meet the “Sassy Gay Friend”

Sports Superstitions: Spain Protective Over Paul the Psychic Octo

  I was very much intrigued by this World Cup character, a “psychic” octopus called Paul!  And since it picked Spain as the fated winner, Germans started wishing him fried!   His kind was removed from a US restaurant menu, and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was ready to send some protection to Paul.   [...]

Lenses of Old Perspectives

Edited by Romulo P. Marinas   When one looks through the lenses of old perspectives, one will see the old order and if the old order does not fit the lenses or is somehow blurry, one must create a vision of a small old order to fit it or create the old order all over again [...]

On Thinking: Humorous Wisdoms by Osho

Osho, whose real name is Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, is credited for bridging certain gaps in faiths to the modern times.  Here he says that god is a dead word, which recalls Nietzsche’s “God is dead,” interpreted by Joseph Campbell as “Symbols are dead.”  The old symbols no longer hold the same magic for the new generations, [...]

Pope Fashion: What’s it like to be in his shoes?

This is a raid of the papal closet.  I’m checking what’s inside.  If there’s anything infallible about the pope, really, it is that he will not sacrifice good taste.  Well, I’m impressed.  More of his shoes and clothes here

Voracious Appetites of Athletes: Football’s Fabio Cannavaro and Swimmer Michael Phelps

These men burn calories and eat as if preparing for the World War.  To give us an idea of the athlete appetite, here football centerback Fabio Cannavaro describes his diet:   While the news report that Michael Phelps consumes 12,000 calories a day, he claims just 8,000-10,000 calories:  

Wanted: Lunatic

Can be taken in two ways. 1. job opening 2. a pursuance of a lunatic that is to be annihilated or kept within inescapable confines We can add a 3rd way, and that is a joke. Example: “Lunatic” by J. H. Hill I like hunting fossils, a hobby that isn’t exactly my wife’s favorite. On [...]

Philosophy of Sound

A-U-M-Silence . . . the ancient sound of “OM”   by David Gordon        Source here:  Seeking the unstruck sound Ancient teachings and modern science agree: you, I, all living things, all things in existence are made up at their most essential level of vibrating, pulsing energy. For millennia, mystics have recounted their experience of this energy, [...]