Dec 28 2012: eat less salt. spend more time writing fiction. it will be a gradual process with successes and failures. aim for the long term improvement, don't focus on the short term failures.
Dec 28 2012: The amount of Aid given compared to say, the amount money spent on "defense" is actually very very small. Aid does not always reach the people it is supposed to aid due to corruption. Sometimes it is used to solve short terms problems instead of investing in long term solutions. In a broader sense, perhaps because the population of the world keeps increasing, the increased demand for food and other essentials inflates prices. Has aid money increased in line with this? Also, Believe it or not, the last 60 years (at least in European history) has been one of the most peaceful and prosperous periods ever, perhaps the bubble eventually bursts? Don't forget the capitalist economic system can cause the gap between rich and poor to increase or decrease, supposedly this happens in cycles. It's increasing at the moment for sure. Maybe that's temporary, maybe it's not. Just some thoughts.... you'll have to find the evidence yourself.
Jul 31 2008: I think because he is canconfident and good looking etc. people are snobbish and assume he cannot be intelligent. Also, it is natural, sensible to be wary of people good at emotionally influencing people, working an audience etc. as he is, however, this does not in itself mean what he says has no value.
I think i understand what he is getting at, difficult to put into 20 minutes. It reminds me of "A road less travelled" by M. Scott Peck.
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I think i understand what he is getting at, difficult to put into 20 minutes. It reminds me of "A road less travelled" by M. Scott Peck.
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Ok, i can accept the first part of this, but:
How can you assume with certainty that it will be for ever and ever?
Violence used to be advantageous to survival, in the world we live in now, it is becoming detrimental to the human race's survival.
We may evolve to be less violent for the sake of survival. Right?