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Month: December 2011

Mind Manipulation

Posted on 31/12/2011 by admin

Hoping to find a cure for depression many years ago doctors cut the connecting tissue in patients, that joined the two hemispheres of the brain. Subsequently patients found themselves doing the same thing twice without realising – such as putting on two sets of clothes – because the hemisphere they had rarely used thought the…

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Authority

Posted on 30/12/2011 by admin

When I visited Jerusalem in 2008 and absent-mindedly told a religious lady I did not believe in god, besides her visible shock, she asked me who I looked to for authority. I have to admit the question took me off guard because I come from a tradition that views all religious texts as written by…

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Atom to Atom

Posted on 29/12/2011 by admin

I was listening about the concepts derived from Quantum mathematics and the Pauli constant. Basically the Pauli constant states that no two elections can occupy the same energy level and this is why as we progress through the pH Table we get to elements that add more and more electrons and these orbit the nuclei…

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A Joke To End 2011

Posted on 27/12/2011 by admin

So you think someone is in charge of the universe?   …………………………………….   Saul is working in his store when he hears a booming voice from above: “Saul, sell your business.” He ignores it. It goes on for days. “Saul, sell your business for $3 million.” After weeks of this, he relents, sells his store….

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George Orwell

Posted on 26/12/2011 by admin

Not widely known for writing poems, his work is thoughtful. ………………………………………………. The lesser evil Empty as death and slow as pain The days went by on leaden feet; And parson’s week had come again As I walked down the little street. Without, the weary doves were calling, The sun burned on the banks of mud;…

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Christmas

Posted on 25/12/2011 by admin

Religions have a lifetime. People don’t really like to think about this because we are always looking for certainty and religions have often offered us some measure of security in our certainty, and the idea that they necessarily grow and fall is not sympathetic to the mind. But actually as we change so do they….

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When It’s All A Game

Posted on 24/12/2011 by admin

I know we all like playing games of one sort or another and we are taught that engagement with other people in ‘sports’ is a central part of socializing ourselves to living in communities, but when we tend to make ‘everything’ a  game we lose sight of what is actually important. In the banking world…

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Yehudah ha-Levi

Posted on 23/12/2011 by admin

Translated from the original of one of the names held in high regard from the Golden Age of Sephardic Jewry. …………………..   A Love Song “Do you see over my shoulders falling, Snake-like ringlets waving free? Have no fear, for they are twisted To allure you unto me.” Thus she spoke, the gentle dove, Listen…

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A Grip Upon Reality

Posted on 21/12/2011 by admin

I am rather surprised though I shouldn’t be, at statements about tyrants and leaders generally ‘losing their grip on reality’ when they are faced revolts of any colour and kind. This was said today about Syria and I wonder exactly what it is supposed to mean. I am guessing it means that when a leader’s…

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Empowerment of the Individual

Posted on 20/12/2011 by admin

So much of the history of political and social development has been around the empowerment of the individual we sometimes fail to recognize that leaders are individuals too. We have argued so long trying to understand why a 100,000 men would follow one man into a war we have not looked long enough at one…

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