I am not sure people realise that healthiness (one’s fitness regime) is intimately tied up with one’s philosophy of life. Maybe people don’t actually think they have a philosophy of life, but we all do. This is why many Eastern religions (and we may perhaps say all religions are basically philosophies or comments upon life) have…
Month: April 2011
Tested and Passed
I had five hours at hospital today because my mother lost a lot of strength in her left arm overnight. The consensus is she had a minor stroke but I want to share the UK health system with you. Her doctor visited at 12 pm after a call in the morning and did the paperwork…
Relationship Issues
I have often thought it was easier to get on with my dogs than anyone else. For a start my dogs can easily out-think me so they don’t have any dominance issues. They also have few requests and those they do have have specified times to which they adhere throughout their lives. It isn’t the…
Scary Stuff
Whilst motion pictures have given a new lease of life to horror it has to be said the scariest ideas used by directors come from ancient stories told around fires and as instructive lessons on what not to do and where not to go. For as long as myths go back human beings have filled…
Is There An Alternative To Thinking?
We got to where we are because we are a rational, thoughtful animal. But those thoughts are of particular kinds – the kinds that come to us because of our nature. The kinds that make sense of the outside world by using our senses. The kinds our brains can comprehend. The kinds that we can…
The Feudal Mind
There are few martial arts movies that I have ever really enjoyed.Knowing that martial arts began in India and are deeply rooted in religious beliefs the fare that the West is heir too with flying everything and heroism is not actually accurate. But I am struck as with movies made about knights errant or any…
The Simpler Life
Whenever my computer goes wrong I always seem to go into overdrive and worry. I recall when my pc first crashed on me and the hardware had broken I spent a week without the Internet after being on it for almost two years. I had withdrawal symptoms. Yet strangely enough when it happened again after…
Experience Shows
Thinking can be dangerous. I have always been a lover of close thinking – though never very good at participating – it is instructive to listen to people who can divide up the meaning of sentences and slice away at them as you might a cake with smaller and smaller portions. We can see an analogous…
If Only . . .
I was fascinated about six years ago to see a black and white picture of a machine moving an atom from one place in a lattice (I think it was a metal) to another place. The possibility of creating materials one atom at a time suggests the making of perfect crystals (one person suggested a…
Family Ties
It is often the case that no matter who hurts us in our lives, it is our families that have the ability to hurt or give us happiness more readily than that which we can imbibe and feel from other people. It is our families after all that know all our ‘buttons’ and press them…