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Wisdom Of Ignorance Socrates did not claim to know better than others. He frequently emphasized that he is ignorant of the answer. The importance of this helps to draw th...	1,413	8	0	Jan 2014	Jan 2014	Apr 19
The Other Side What awaits on the other side After death takes one's breath away Billions have taken that last ride Yet what awaits no one can say A belief is...	1,412	46	0	Mar 2022	Mar 2022	16 hrs ago
America Created Al-Qaeda and the ISIS Terror Group Much like Al Qaeda, the Islamic State (ISIS) is made-in-the-USA, an instrument of terror designed to divide and conquer the oil-rich Middle East and t...	1,396	10	0	Nov 2015	Dec 2015	Apr 25
Frequency Dimensions, Multi-Universes, Paranormal (Recently, two interesting blogs were posted on ESP and After-Death experience. The following is from one of my previous blogs on those subjects. I pr...	1,386	35	0	Aug 2016	Aug 2016	Apr 25
Love Is A Decision "Love is a decision, it is a judgement, it is a promise. If love were only a feeling, there would be no basis for the promise to love each other forev...	1,351	6	0	Jan 2014	Dec 2014	2 hrs ago
Better to have loved and have lost... Even before entering into a relationship, one person is always attracted to the other more than the other is attracted to him/her. This may be purely...	1,319	36	0	May 2015	May 2015	Apr 26
True And Only Path To God (Repost) In order for God to be "God", he must allow every individual an equal opportunity to attain or experience salvation otherwise, he will not be fair as...	1,314	20	0	Nov 2014	Nov 2014	Apr 26
Nature in Your Life and Better Health Is more nature in your life the secret to better overall health? Do you have nature deficiency disorder? Increasingly, we have become an indoor so...	1,311	14	0	Nov 2014	Nov 2014	Apr 27

Interesting comment re defunct MD site dated 4/3/14 "Remember junior high when you walked into the lunch room and saw the table with the nerds, misfits, really short, mostly obese, ugly and smelly re...	1,294	16	0	Dec 2019	Dec 2019	Apr 27
Mysticism Unfortunately, the word "mysticism" seems to have negative connotations to some who may view it as a mysterious form of taboo mainly because it cannot...	1,286	21	0	Apr 2014	Apr 2014	Apr 25
What Are Your Views On Parenting? Some of you may be familiar with the story of the seven year old Japanese boy who survived for six nights in a forest in northern Japan after his pare...	1,278	14	0	Jun 2016	Jun 2016	Apr 26
Astral Travel Some persons claim that they experience “astral travel”, usually through the practice of some form of meditation. However, what does the term “astral...	1,270	31	0	Oct 2015	Oct 2015	2 hrs ago
Doping In Sports Enhancing sporting prowess goes back to the ancient Greeks, who used special diets and concoctions to improve their athletic abilities. In the 19th ce...	1,252	6	0	Jan 2015	Jan 2015	Apr 27
Jan. 6 probe: Trump did ‘everything’ to overturn election "WASHINGTON (AP) — Chairman Bennie Thompson opened Thursday’s prime-time hearing of the Jan. 6 investigating committee, saying Donald Trump as pres...	1,235	17	2	Jul 2022	Mar 2023	42 mins ago
Christian Terrorism - Victims of the Christian Faith Mission Emperor Karl (Charlemagne) in 782 had 4500 Saxons, unwilling to convert to Christianity, beheaded. Peasants of Steding (Germany)...	1,234	12	1	Feb 2019	Feb 2019	14 hrs ago
The Highly Sensitive Man I posted a blog recently on "Highly Sensitive People". One male blogger said it seemed to apply more to women than to men. The following is from an...	1,230	13	0	May 2015	May 2015	Apr 20
Life and Death Life and death are two sides of the same coin Yet we embrace the first and shun the last But no matter which view of life we join Death is somethin...	1,194	8	0	Mar 2015	Mar 2015	Apr 27
What Is Feminine? What Is Masculine? Social scientists commonly distinguish between sex and gender. Sex usually refers to the biological differences between men and women whereas gender r...	1,191	9	0	Aug 2014	Aug 2014	Apr 27
What is Thought? In a recent blog, someone wrote: “The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp”. I asked the question: “What i...	1,178	40	0	Sep 2015	Oct 2015	Apr 25
"Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it. The Monkey's Paw On a dark and stormy night in England, The Whites – Mr. and Mrs. White and their adult son Herbert – are inside enjoying a...	1,172	5	0	Jul 2014	Jul 2014	Apr 26
Tribute To Karen Karen Carpenter has been called one of the best female vocalists of the 20th Century by a number of influential publications as diverse as Rolling Sto...	1,145	23	0	Sep 2016	Sep 2016	5 hrs ago

Anthropomorphism, Theism and Atheism When the term “God” is mentioned, it seems it is generally assumed that everyone has a clear and common understanding of what it refers to. But is th...	1,125	30	0	Apr 2018	Apr 2018	Apr 23
Free Will Do we really have free will? At the societal level, the assumption that we have free will is an essential requirement. In fact, our legal system is...	1,123	20	0	May 2015	May 2015	11 hrs ago
Anonymity Of The Internet And Monstrous Behaviour The anonymity of the internet is to blame for the rise in online trolls targeting women because it has removed natural constraints on "monstrous" beha...	1,121	10	0	Apr 2014	Sep 2014	Apr 27
Gods and Goddesses In early civilizations, human survival depended on a regular food supply from plant and animal sources. These, in turn, depended on the goodness of Na...	1,115	17	0	Dec 2015	Dec 2015	14 hrs ago
Mystical Experience - The Interconnection of Everything: Spiritual versus Religious (I have modified the Blog title to focus on the Mystical Experience which I view as being Spiritual) On October 24, 2013, I posted a poem entitle...	1,115	33	0	May 2018	May 2018	22 hrs ago
What do you think will happen after you die? Most religions state that when a person dies, his/her soul/spirit/consciousness leaves the body which decays. However, they differ in what they believ...	1,110	27	0	Jun 2015	Jun 2015	15 hrs ago
Ferdinand Marcos: The world's biggest “thieving po "In the early hours of a February morning in 1986, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos flew into exile. After 21 years as president of the Philippines, Marcos...	1,109	13	0	May 2016	Jun 2016	Apr 26
Love Is A Decision I wrote and posted the following piece on Poetry Corner on Jan 7, 2016: Love Is A Decision (Author: socrates44) Love is not based on a f...	1,092	29	1	Mar 2018	Mar 2018	Apr 22
Normality Is an Endangered Species: Psychiatric Fa In posting this blog, I wish to state that I believe that there are genuine cases that need psychiatric intervention but in a lot of instances, what a...	1,087	5	0	Jul 2016	Jul 2016	Apr 26
HATERS If someone does not approve of certain actions of a person, does that mean he/she HATES that person? HATE is an very strong word. He/she may fee...	1,083	31	0	Jun 2018	Jun 2018	Apr 26

Media Call Out Donald Trump's Plan To Ban Muslims Media Call Out Donald Trump's Plan To Ban Muslims From The US For Playing Into The Hands Of ISIS Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Co...	1,070	20	0	Dec 2015	Dec 2015	Apr 20
Spiritual but not Religious, and Atheist What does it mean to be Spiritual but not Religious, as several persons here on CS claim they are? What is an Atheist? What does the term “God”...	1,066	29	0	Jan 2016	Jan 2016	Apr 26
Paranormal Experiences paranormal: - said of phenomena, observations, occurrences, etc: beyond the normal scope of scientific explanation, and therefore not possi...	1,054	23	0	Apr 2014	Apr 2014	11 hrs ago
What is Reality? – Part3 (Logic and Physical Sense Experience) A closer examination of the various aspects of socially-accepted concepts of sense-experience reality mentioned previously reveals the presence of two...	1,050	27	0	Jan 2019	Jan 2019	Apr 25
Why is life expectancy longer for women than it is Bertrand Desjardins, a researcher in the demography department of the University of Montreal, explains. Men dying sooner than women makes sense bi...	1,044	6	0	Apr 2014	Apr 2014	Apr 27
Wildlife War Africa is centre of a ‘wildlife war’ that the world is losing. A year on since 46 countries signed up to the ‘London declaration’ to eradicate the tr...	1,019	10	0	Mar 2015	Mar 2015	Apr 26
How modern life is making men infertile. "Sperm quality is a good indicator of male fertility but it can also say a lot about men's overall health. Low sperm count is related to all kinds...	1,017	9	1	Jan 2022	Jan 2022	18 mins ago
The Search for Satisfaction and Security The search for some form of satisfaction or security, whether short term or long term, that would provide freedom from anxiety and depression, and the...	995	9	0	Apr 2014	Apr 2014	Apr 19
BIRTH – Destiny or Accident Some persons appear to have things in life easy Others have to struggle to cope desperately Just what is the reason for this discrepancy Is it due...	980	33	0	Aug 2015	Aug 2015	Apr 20
The Privatization of Water The Privatization of Water: Nestlé Denies that Water is a Fundamental Human Right The current Chairman and former CEO of Nestlé, the large...	976	9	0	Aug 2016	Sep 2016	12 hrs ago
"Becoming The Flower" Recently. I posted a series of blogs on the topic: "What Is Reality?". It was a particular experience that I had, which I have attempted to describe...	976	21	0	Feb 2019	Apr 2021	Apr 26

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