Live while you are alive
Whether you are a subsistence farmer in Africa, a poor fisherman in Bangladesh, or a rich CEO in America, life is all down to random chance. God has nothing to do with your color or your success, or otherwise, in life. You have caring parents who have nurtured and educated you? Well, aren’t you lucky? …
Computer nerds are the new alpha males. According to a survey. 59% of women admire men who can fix computers – so-called technosexuals – but only 49% feel the same about those who can repair a car. The technosexuals are in such demand that two-fifths of men admit to having exaggerated their IT skills in an …
The US spends far more on health care than any other country in the world, yet in a new study of 17 rich nations, it ranked dead last in life expectancy. The explanation, it seems, is that, compared with people in other rich countries , far fewer of them reach old age at all. …
On 14 December, a deranged young man burst into a classroom and attacked 23 children. His name was Min Yongjun, and though he injured many of the young pupils at the school in Henan province, China, none was killed. That same day, Adam Lanza went on the rampage at a school in Newtown, Connecticut: he …
We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves: fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future. ( Montaigne Essays , 1580-8) This was one of the things about human beings that concerned Epicurus. Men find it difficult to live in the present (the “now”). He would have had no problem with hope …
