We all, both as individuals and as cultures, have beliefs that won’t stand the test of time, and very likely some that we will be laughing about years down the road. Fortunately, we are not only time-binders, as Korzybski puts it, we also have the scientific method. You know, the thing that brought us airplanes […]
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After about two months, I have come to what may be the closure of one of the original main themes of this blog. My original takes on relationships and the question of monogamy vs. polygamy can be found in the relationship category. But it has always been my goal to understand both sides, and I […]
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Once again, the James Randi Educational Foundation has picked the yearly recipients for their anti-rewards. That made me think about how much nonsense and known errors we face in our lives. JREF focuses on some prominent examples, but there are many more that are more widespread and provide less of a focus for attack. What […]
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I’ve been on Google+ for a few days now, and I noticed that it has the same crucial feature missing as Facebook and all the others have. So, I’ll be writing about it and maybe inspire someone to add it. I’m talking, of course, about the ability for me to edit and add to my […]
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Hands up if you had to look up “misandry” but knew immediately what misogyny is. Or, if you’re a member of the minority which has that in their vocabulary, explain why “misogyny” gives ~7 mio. hits on Google while “misandry” gives less than 1 mio. Funny how much our language betrays our bias, isn’t it? […]
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A slight detour from the usual topics, this angry rant by Phil Plait caught much of my attention. In short, the story is this: A woman is in a hotel elevator with a man, it is late at night. He attended her talk earlier and expresses his admiration together with an invitation to coffee at […]
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There is much similarity between this talk by Tony Robbins that I took the post title from and my earlier posting on Steve’s 10 Steps. Priya Sher has summed up Robbins’ the main points well, there are three quotes that I’d like to add: If you’re not doing it, then you don’t know […]
~ read more ~This is actually from an in-flight magazine some five or so years ago. I have a hardcopy of the page, but I don’t remember which airline or who “Steve” was by last name. What I recall is that he is a british coach with a no-nonsense approach. The kind of guy who doesn’t tell you […]
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A while ago, I have come out of a relationship with a women with borderline personality disorder. It was both the most intense relationship and the most damaging breakup of my life, and while there is a vast amount of material on the Internet for partners of borderliners, much of it is walls of text. […]
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I re-watched James Geary’s TED talk about metaphors, which gives a great introduction to the topic: The most memorable part of it is this one: Take the three most famous words in all of Western philosophy: “Cogito ergo sum.” It is routinely translated as, “I think, therefore I am.” But there is a better translation. […]
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