Memories Are Quite Deceptive Part 1 The palest ink is better than the best memory. – Chinese Proverb Hypnosis, brainwashing and propaganda are are effective tools to place fake ideas into the memory. Buy this drink as it will make you happy. But now many beverages help bring about Type 2 Diabetes? Vote for this politician as they will make …
Memories are only fragments where the gaps are filled in Change the way you see things and the things you see will change. – Wayne Dyer One thing I learned from my Grade 12 English teacher is that the only reason the good old days seem that way is the amount of editing that goes into those thoughts. She went …
As I went began hitchhiking I learned what I needed to know to survive. At times it was by trial and error, other times by the hard way. I used to listen to the old timers of the road, hobos if you wish. Looking neat and tidy was a must. So was having regular showers and doing laundry at every …
Hitchhiking Across Western Canada Part 1 Each highway had its own personality. Highway 3 – Crowsnest Highway – connects Hope. B.C. with Medicine Hat, Alberta. This highway passes through farmland but once it enters western Alberta the mountains have begun. It changes from hard working plain speaking farmers to free thinkers – eccentrics if you wish. Highway 3 in B.C. …
Hitchhiking – A Way Of Clearing My Head There was a time when I hit the road on a whim. At times it was on my days off from work, other times I was on the road for weeks or months at a time. Usually I had a specific destination to head to; sometimes it was where the wind blew …
‘I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon weariness and dissipating. I like being alone. I never found the companion was as companionable as solitude.’ – Henry David Thoreau “…a time to keep silence and a time to speak.’ – Ecclesiates 3:7 It’s up to …
As I get older and less idealistic, I became more realistic on how I lived my life and viewed the world. I started to clean out the clutter in my mind. As this happened the scales fell from my eyes and wax dropped out of my ears. As a result things started to get a lot clearer for me. I …
Here are yet more random thoughts of mine… Once the wedding vows are spoken, the rings placed on the fingers and the reception is over, how many couples start acting like their parents? This might be a good reason to get married later in life when the couple has more life experience behind them… The truth hurts but a lie …
‘A believer is a bird in a cage. A freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with timeless wings.’ – Robert Ingersoll I really wonder why critical thinking hasn’t caught on with people. Maybe it will, probably it won’t, but coming to my own conclusions is more appealing to me than settling for conventional thinking. Critical thinking is exercise for …
All that was great in the past was ridiculed, combated, suppressed – only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle. – Nikola Tesla It is my hope that curiosity, thinking and silence never fall by the wayside or disappear. All three serve a vital service in maintaining balance in person’s life. Curiosity Curiosity motivates …
I never want to be as sure of anything as the people who built this place.” – Anonymous Agnostic There are things that we must learn, an unlearn as we grow spiritually. One thing we need to do as a species is to find out what reality is and start telling people about it. Sounds like a tall order, but …
‘Everyone wants to get to Heaven but no one wants to die.’ – attributed to B.B. King I used to think that religious faiths were there to help guide a person to connect with God. I’m now convinced that at times it is the furthest thing from the truth. When dealing with incoming information one needs to use discernment to …
