Add comment July 31st, 2006
Jake turned away from the news on TV and said to Alan, “This war on terror they keep talking about. When do you think it’ll end?”
“Not in our lifetime,” Alan replied, looking up from the writing he was doing.
“Really? Why?”
3 comments July 30th, 2006
I’m practicing a new writing style - conversational. My opinions and any articles I want to write will now be presented in a conversational style, with a fictional person called Jake. Any feedback you have on what you think of this new style would be appreciated. Thanks.
2 comments July 30th, 2006
“You know, you’ve been talking a lot about doing what you love doing, but what if someone doesn’t know what they love doing? What do they do then?”
Alan looked at Jake for a few seconds, thinking about what the younger man had just asked him. “Yeh, that’s a good question. If you’ve never really thought about it, I can see how it’d be a tough question to answer.”
Jake nodded. “There’s a saying that’s often thrown around: ‘If you didn’t have to worry about money, what would you choose to do?’ Once you’ve thought about that, you’re supposed to go out and do it. It’s all very well to say that, but those of us that have to think about that NEED to worry about money.”
Add comment July 25th, 2006
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1 comment July 24th, 2006
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When people reach adulthood, everyone and everything tells them they need to go out and get a job. Everyone else does it, so they should too. I guess if everyone else decided that jumping off a tall building was a good idea, there’d be a lot of people who’d follow them. But doing what everyone else does isn’t always the best way of doing things. Here are some reasons why you should do things different to everyone else.
Add comment July 23rd, 2006
Everyone has a hierarchy of values, from the things that are really important, all the way down to the things that don’t matter. What’s important and what doesn’t matter changes according to the values of the individual.
Anything that supports your highest values is called ‘good’ and you are attracted to it in some way, while anything that challenges your highest values you call ‘bad’ and are repelled by. Our values determine how we conduct our relationships with people.
There are three types of relationships in this context, with each one having a different outcome.
Add comment July 22nd, 2006
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Add comment July 22nd, 2006
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Add comment July 22nd, 2006
I get breaking intelligence reports relating to conflict around the world, via stratfor.com, most of which is very interesting. Not all of it is new though, or interesting enough for me to write about. The other times I did was when I was talking about the bird flu hoax and the Muslim crisis planned by the US. The latest report I got, just in the past hour or so, talks about the Middle East, but is the most recent of many.
The ground war has begun. Several Israeli brigades now appear to be operating between the Lebanese border and the Litani River. According to reports, Hezbollah forces are dispersed in multiple bunker complexes and are launching rockets from these and other locations.
2 comments July 20th, 2006
Imagine a group of civilians calling themselves the Canadian Liberation Front. Imagine that they resented the actions of the US so much that they would kidnap two US soldiers. Would it then be reasonable for the US to engage in a full-scale invasion of Canada? Would it be reasonable for the US to bomb Canada’s civilian infrastructure of commercial and industrial facilities? Would it be reasonable for the US to engage in bombing campaigns against Canadian bridges, and strafing runs by jet fighters against Canadian civilians?
No, of course not.
So why is it reasonable for Israel to do exactly the same thing against Lebanon and Gaza?
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