I've long argued that the ultimate solution to most of society's problems is better education, and I've even come up with a few models for how our education system could be improved (one of which I posted here some time ago). But there's a Catch-22: we need to improve education to get people to make better decisions, but we need to convice people ( Read more... )

Being like Jesus is really hard. But think about this: It took him 35 years to perfect it, and even then He only had to keep it up for a year ( Read more... )

The Justice Shield (JS) is an amazing new invention developed for the protection of the citizens of the world. JS is a personal force field-generating device that is small enough to attach to one's belt like a beeper, yet it represents impenetrable defensive power for the wearer. And society need not worry about the abuse of JS: the Shield ( Read more... )

I'd expected that lust would be the most difficult one--sex seems to be the default train of thought for men, after all. But worldliness was much more difficult for me. For lust, there weren't that many temptations--all I really had to do was avoid most media and not take a second look at the girl on the street. For worldliness, there were ( Read more... )

My auction for wisdom has 6 bids and is up to $1.25. To shame you, the truth-seeking public, I have added to my Ebay item description.

...Or the lack thereof. I actually had very little temptation to lust after anyone today. I noticed a driver this morning and stopped myself from a double-take, but my mind was otherwise distracted till I got home. And then...TV! Apparently, there are lots of attractive women on tv shows and commercials, many of whom act and/or dress in ( Read more... )

Or, More Fun with Ebay!

So I've created another auction on Ebay. This time the auction is for wisdom. Seriously ( Read more... )

I’m realizing that most of my negative feelings during the day are focused on one person, my assistant. One reason for that is that she’s the person I interface the most with professionally. Another factor is the “political tension” in the office, due to our boss kind of playing us off of each other in our mutual attempts to increase our positions ( Read more... )

So yesterday was my forgiveness day. I didn't think I'd have very many things to forgive people for (I rarely come into direct conflict with people), but I came across several things ( Read more... )

So, I realize I don't have the integrity/will power/virtue to be a good person all at once. So I'm going to (experimentally) try out being a good person a little at a time, one day at a time. Specifically, I've planned my days for the next week to focus around one virtue each ( Read more... )