philosophy Archive

I could write about this in great detail.  It is something I believe strongly about, but there is just one point I would like to make right now.  I say this in full realization that such a statement could be considered self-referential.
Anyone who suggests that you are a victim of others, is trying to victimize [...]

When I was just out of high school I worked through a temp agency doing light industrial and clerical work. I think that is a great first job since you get to do a lot of different types of work with a lot of different kinds of people. Some of the assignments were [...]

Is Gitmo the new Salem?

OK, at the risk of getting myself on some Government hit list, I really want to share this.
The other day Dawn and I were watching The Majestic with Jim Carey. I really enjoyed the movie. It takes place during the McCarthyism Anti-Communism hearings.
Watching how ludicrous the hearings and investigations were depicted it made [...]

You can take the test on BBC’s Leonardo Da Vinici page.
Here is my results:

You are an Interpersonal Thinker

 
Interpersonal thinkers:

Like to think about other people, and try to understand them
Recognise differences between individuals and appreciate that different people have different perspectives
Make an effort to cultivate effective relationships with family, friends and colleagues

Like interpersonal thinkers, Leonardo had [...]

With IQ being Intellectual Quotient (ability to understand and organize information), and EQ being Emotional Quotient (ability to understand and organize people).  If we were to assume that they are mutually exclusive so a person could only have one or the other, which would you want?
Why?
I would want a high EQ.  That would make it [...]

I just finished reading the Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles. An amazing book. It was published about 100 years ago too. You can read the whole thing on WikiSource. That is where I got it from too. I formatted it all nice and printed it out.
Wallace has [...]

The Mozilla foundation & corporation give away free software and they made $44.7 million dollars after their $8.2 million in expenses in 2005. The bulk of that money is made from search engines (mostly Google), which pay Mozilla when people use the built in search functionality.
If you want an interesting philosophical twist on this [...]

I saw this question and answer and it reminded me of the quote “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” by Confucius,  which I think could be the ultimate origin of this proverb.  What do you think?
Who said, “Actions speak louder than words”?
Talk about a catch-all expression. [...]

My son shared with me some creative questions he came up with at school:

How do you know you are not upside down and gravity isn’t really pulling you up?
Have you ever been your imagination?
Have you ever exceeded your imagination?

Of course part of me wants to give a simple answer, but then I realized that these [...]

Bill Hicks said:
“It’s just a ride and we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money, a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your door, buy guns, close yourself off. [...]