Money really can't buy happiness, study finds
Clergy are the most satisfied with their jobs; lawyers, doctors down on the list

By Barbara Rose
Tribune staff reporter
Published April 17, 2007

The old saw "money can't buy happiness" apparently holds true when it comes to work.

Highly-paid professionals like doctors and lawyers didn't make the cut when ( Read more... )

There is so much talk about human distress and wretchedness -- I try to understand it and have also had some intimate acquaintance with it -- there is so much talk about wasting a life, but only that person's life was wasted who went on living so deceived by life's joys or its sorrows that he never became decisively and eternally concious as spirit ( Read more... )

Global Warming is Unstoppable and Humans are to Blame, says UN Report
From Larry West,
Your Guide to Environmental Issues.

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It is also clear that some “critics for hire” will continue to raise questions about climate change science, including this report. The day before the report ( Read more... )

Strange face, with your eyes
So pale and sincere.
Underneath you know well
You have nothing to fear.
For the dreams that came to you when so young
Told of a life
Where spring is sprung.

You would seem so frail
In the cold of the night
When the armies of emotion
Go out to fight.
But while the earth sinks to it's grave
You sail to the sky
On the crest of a wave.

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The Nietzsche Family Circus

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otters holding hands

So I havn't smoked since the day I moved here. Incidentally, that was two months ago today, but, to me, the not-having-smoked was a bigger deal.  I really burnt myself out in Florida, and, as much fun as that was, it lost its allure (whats the fun of being stupid every day?? ) . I did it anyways So this break was mostly in due to that. Nothing ( Read more... )

" Jesus tomb found "

" Historical Christianity has fallen into the error that corrupts all attempts to communicate religion.  As it appears to us, and as it has appeared for ages, it is not the doctrine of the soul ... All who hear me, feel, that the language that describes Christ to Europe and America, is not the style of friendship ( Read more... )

CHIMPS WITH SPEARS !

Really long, hard to read, but interesting Scientific American article ...

The results indicate that endocannabinoids are important in extinguishing the bad feelings and pain triggered by reminders of past experiences. The discoveries raise the possibility that abnormally low numbers of cannabinoid receptors or the faulty release of endogenous ( Read more... )