Last week, Gordon Brown delivered a speech before British troops in Afghanistan, in which he said,
"I believe that our Olympic athletes and everybody else in our country will remember that all the year round you show exactly the same courage, professionalism and dedication [as people who have won medals in areas where we have been breaking new ground for the first time] and you make our country proud every day of the week and every week of the year for what you are doing." Read more...
A human life is not special in the objective sense that it was created for a purpose or by a being with a purpose (most likely anyway), or in the sense that it is different to any animal life. However, it is special in that it is a life and should be respected. Read more...
I would like to be a woman. Or French. Or Icelandic. But I don't want to be a man who has become a woman, or to learn a new language, customs, idiosyncracies or 'national' customs. I want to have been born a woman, French or Icelandic. And then I may have wished I was me.
There are parallel worlds/universes/realities - whatever you wish to call them - and rifts/portals/gateways - again, be my guest - can open between them. These rifts, however, should not be envisaged as merely 'doorways', openings through which one can pass between realities. Read more...
One cannot view truth head on; it does not present itself. Just because a situation or thing can be perceived clearly, is there before one, does not make it true. The truth is cleverer, perhaps sneakier, than that. It is like a child in its desire for play, and, also like a child, is a master of self concealment, beacuse it retains no particular world view. Instead, possibilities lay stretched out before it, and it uses this knowledge of what might be to dictate what it is at any given moment.