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• A reply on Conversation: Where do you find the strength to rise up every morning ?

  Sep 18 2011: Hi,
  
  I have to thank you for your answer in wich you recommend so truly the life that we, each and everyone of us, deserve. I find it really inspiring and uplifting. I'm defenitely getting the book too!
  
  may peace be with you
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  A comment on Conversation: To create a wiki-based website that becomes a go to portal if you want to help.

  Aug 20 2011: Brilliant idea. The world is desperated for a platform like this!

• A reply on Conversation: Where do you find the strength to rise up every morning ?

  Aug 20 2011: I like the idea to wake up with the thought to do better then yesterday, I will apply this.
  cheers

• A reply on Conversation: Where do you find the strength to rise up every morning ?

  Aug 20 2011: very good one :)
  cheers
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  A comment on Conversation: Please share: What TED Talk has brought tears to your eyes?

  Aug 19 2011: Eve Ensler: Suddenly, my body.
  
  http://www.ted.com/talks/eve_ensler.html
  
  AMAZING
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  A comment on Conversation: Why is it taking people triple the effort to laugh these days?

  Aug 17 2011: My answer to this question will be that people in general are just to obsessed with the pleasing of the senses, in other words gaining pleasure.
  Wich is quit different then the more divine and pure feeling: joy.
  I reckon the pleasure approach is to materialistic, fake and momentary.
  As human kind we should do more introspection, tutorial and discover that the kingdom is in us.

• A comment on Conversation: How are we going to get out of debt?

  Aug 14 2011: Change our way of thinking and behavior.
  
  *Economically: We have to switch from mass consumption society to a less is more conviction.
  
  *For the moral aspect I would like to quotate the Dalai Lama:
  
  ‎"To develop a sense of universal responsibility - of the universal dimension of our every act and of the equal right of all others to happiness and not to suffer - is to develop an attitude of mind whereby, when we see an opportunity to benefit others, we will take it in preference to merely looking after our own narrow interests."
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  A comment on Conversation: Why is it taking people triple the effort to laugh these days?

  Aug 14 2011: Hi,
  
  I'm not a psychologist but I think I've got something to say about the developing technology to what you're refering to.
  
  I asume the problem with technology is that we're expecting those things to make our life drastically better from the one moment to the other, namely the moment when we purchase such a advanced device. Thereby comes that human kind always wants more, wich seems easy at first sight because every two minutes they invent a new high-tech product. Although we are mostly able to buy this new promising product, disillusionment will soon arise time after time.

• A reply on Conversation: In what sits, floats or hangs the cosmos?

  Jul 31 2011: Thanks for the link, this is really interesting.
  I should watch it a few times over again though, it's still pretty abstract to me.

• A reply on Conversation: Social networksites, a good or a bad thing?

  Jul 29 2011: I'm with you if you're talking about organising/promoting events and keeping contact with people all over the world to arrange future meet ups etc. Here are the social sites really helpfull.
  
  But I'm not quiet sure if technology can assimilate the same sensory contacts as the real human contact. I know technology is evolving immensely quick but I just have the idea that no computer made simulation can give the same feeling to people as when they interact in the same little room where u can see, smell and feel them. Although I admit technology is pretty good in giving us this illusion.
  
  Thanks for your opinion.