Positive Visualization

I’m sure most of you have heard about this book called The Secret. The author Rhonda Byrne has jumped on the “It’s all about me” bandwagon professing the trendy “power of thought” psychology/philosophy. Ms. Byrne would have you believe that the only thing stopping you from achieving health, wealth, and love are your own thoughts [...]

A Catch-22

What if every mundane, repetitive and/or low paying job were replaced by computers/robots just like in Sci-Fi movies?
They already are… from check-out counters to call centers, all types of manufacturing and even… education. I think it’s reasonable to assume that as corporations look for even more ways to cut costs and technology advances, this is [...]

Why Religion?

I am attempting to classify the various explanations of the existence of religion, so chime in the comments.
They are:
1. The intentionality explanation
Human beings are agents and highly adapted to social life. As a result, our cognition tends to take what Dennett calls the “intentional stance”. That is, we ascribe intentions to non-agent processes. In earlier [...]

Self-centered cultures narrow your viewpoint
The link above describes a study done with Chinese students who were both born in and recently immigrated to America. In short, the students born in China were more able to intuit the other persons viewpoint (by a landslide) in comparison to the students born in America. The theory is that [...]

Socialism vs. Libertarianism

I have stated before that my political views were somewhere btwn the two, but I would like to clarify why.
1. I like the idea of people owning businesses individually and as a group of vested employees more than I like the reality of large corporations with no interest in or, responsibility to the community.
2. I [...]

Bitchy girls, stupid parents and the media

Mean Girls
The only reason everyone is so shocked over these girls beating up their supposed friend is because what has been happening for years is finally making it’s way to the light of day. I think it’s a good thing that what was once mythologized by books like “queen bee” and movies such as “mean [...]

Quote

“You can tell how a situation is going to turn out, by the way in which you respond to it.”
I don’t know who penned it, but I sure never thought about it like that before.

Pimp Chronicles

…so worth the time.
http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=3426554

Gurus and Pole Dancers

Since I couldn’t find Mos Def’s “Sex, Love & Money” for my [MySpace] profile I decided to look up the video the other day and add it to my favorites. Apparently, there is a “dirty” and a “clean” version, which I did not know until after I added it and watched it. After watching the [...]