Archive for January, 2009

Charity Does Do Good… For You.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

"How I invest and spend may touch the lives of people in distant places, whose names I'll never know, whose hopes I never think about," There has been some debate in scientific circles about what motivates humans to co-operate.  Suggestions from the selfish gene – looking after number one - through ...

Be Prepared

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Scenario:  It is 2015, the world is recovering from one of the last great recession but Europe and the USA are not doing so well.  So many people were laid off in those years and countries led by China and Asia but including African and South American countries picked up ...

Great Expectations

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

When someone does not deliver to expectations, there is a perception of failure - even if the results are still quite spectacular.  President Obama is in danger of being in this category with many people.  I suspect there are some, many in Africa, that do not expect too much!  I ...

Spirituality and being an atheist.

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

"Spirituality, in a narrow sense, concerns itself with matters of the spirit, a concept closely tied to religious belief and faith, a transcendent reality, or one or more deities.  Spiritual matters are thus those matters regarding humankind's ultimate nature and meaning, not only as material biological organisms, but as beings ...

Blue Monday Blues

Monday, January 19th, 2009

The 5th of January I wrote and said things where going back to normal.  How I lied!  If anything Christmas time is the worst time for making you break habits you have tried to hard to maintain.  The few days of not following routines are fatal to anything that requires ...

Happy New Year Resolutions!

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Well this is it, 2009 before we could even catch our breaths, everything's back to normal. Have you made any resolutions?  I have, but not because I think that one year turning into another will make it any different, just that it does provide a good excuse to try harder at ...