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  A comment on Conversation: YOUR MOTTO?

  Jul 28 2012: First I wonder who said that "When one bases his life on principle, 99 percent of his decisions are already made."? How does he or she come to this conclusion? 99% is really high so I am curious to know how did this number come out?
  My motto: Turn negative into positive! In any experience I have either good or bad, I see there is something to learn from, and even when something looks really bad, my motto helped me search for the positive side of it, fueled me with a positive attitude that helped me come out of it instead of drowning in it.
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  A reply on Conversation: Strange questions that humans have not yet found an answer for!

  Jul 24 2012: Exactly my point! I didn’t know how to put it in simple words and seeing your comment it couldn’t have been more precise. Thank you! Your contribution is always encouraging for new members like myself.

• A reply on Conversation: Does prison work?

  Jul 23 2012: Hello Colleen, great example for this topic.
  Your example as many others we see around is only a proof that as long as the system is not human oriented (either free or convicted) it will always prevail this kind of financial interests.
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  A comment on Conversation: Strange questions that humans have not yet found an answer for!

  Jul 23 2012: A random thought… Why do they say you can't change your past? I would say is generally accepted that what you do today is past tomorrow… So actually you can influence partially your past, by paying good attention at what you are doing today.
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  A comment on Talk: Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

  Jul 23 2012: No more stereotypes please:
  To say the world would be a better world with more women at the top… implies that men are doing a bad job, how fare is that? Is it the quantity that counts or the quality? My feeling is that we should care more about the skills and qualities instead if it’s a woman or a man that does smth.
  Yes, the message is to raise our children not by gender stereotypes but by coaching their skills and talents independently of their sex.
  And yes both women and man should step up and ask for more IF they want more, not because the new social wave wants to present that women are suppressed and men are bad at what there are doing…
  I think this kind of presentation is going to make the woman feel bad she is suppressed and naive since she doesn’t realize it, and the man may feel attacked, underestimated and held responsible for doing a bad job… So finally the question that popped up into my mind was, is this kind of talk going to bring the genders to a better understanding or is it going to increase the gap between man and woman?
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  A comment on Talk: Tali Sharot: The optimism bias

  May 15 2012: Therefore a good mix of optimism and realism will do us good!
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  A comment on Conversation: Don't you think that the new generation becomes more and more lazy because of the developed technology ?

  Apr 7 2012: It’s funny, because I think our grand parents thought of us as being lazy, and so we think the same as them about the new generation. It looks like the circle goes on and on..... Is the generation gap maybe?

• A reply on Conversation: Is Abortion good or bad???

  Feb 28 2012: Thank you Roy. It’s strange how this obvious matter is debated mainly by men.
  I would never say that men don’t have a word in this decision, they are directly involved in the pregnancy act, however I wonder do really men like spreading children around the world? Do they really protect themselves from the unwanted pregnancies in the first place, and secondly are they really so relaxed with the idea of having children with any woman that maybe accidentally they left pregnant? Or maybe we are just talking words here, and the reality is that is ever the case of unwanted pregnancy the partner is the first one to send the woman for abortion?
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  A comment on Conversation: Is Abortion good or bad???

  Feb 25 2012: As a woman I have been giving a lot of thinking on this question… is Abortion good or bad? In any case I think that this decision should be taken by the persons directly involved in the act of pregnancy and not by the church, relatives, etc. Abortion is a serious decision, like any other serious decisions that we might have to take in life, taking in consideration the physical and psychological stress, risks and complications and the commitment that arise from keeping the pregnancy.
  In this respect any person that really wants to avoid the trouble of an abortion or the commitment to an unwanted pregnancy, should really, really take care to avoid this pregnancies! However I understand that nothing in life is 100% safe, and there are other circumstances to get involved in an unwanted pregnancy (i.e. rape) so it’s good to be prepared to face anything…
  
  To cut the story short, to me the bottom line is that you (and your partner, if there is one) will have to decide if you will take the life of a child or not? So therefore the question would be, is killing good or bad? Society have answered already to this question, it depends very much of the circumstances! In a self defense act in most countries I think you don’t go to jail but you get to live with the consciousness that you have killed a person and the stress that may involve the process. So I take the abortion that equals to an unwanted pregnancy as a human right, a self defense right to an unwanted/ unable/ unqualified/ impossible to undertake a long term commitment. And as long as it’s your decision, you will live with it, not the church, not the relatives, nobody else but you!

• A comment on Conversation: Who is a hero?

  Jun 24 2011: You are a hero, I am, and many other people around us that act and behave at their best potential. My hero is the best of myself. I try not to be someone else or like someone else but to be the best of myself. Every time I do something good, or better, every time I improve or develop something, I am happy I evolved one step to being a better person. Watch this video you might find some answers: http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/philip_zimbardo_on_the_psychology_of_evil.html