Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Friday, November 12, 2010

Life Purpose: Are You A Human Doing? A Human Having? Or A Human Being?

By Paul Saver

At some point in our lives most of us would have pondered the question: "What is my life purpose?". If you look to the internet and check the web sites run by savvy business entrepreneurs as well as some wannabe's, you will notice a message that goes something like this: "And you too my friend can have your cake and get to eat it as well. In other words, you can be, do and have to your heart's content"

As a budding entrepreneur myself I totally agree with this statement. My life purpose calls upon me to play full out and having it all. At the same time I ask myself, "are these three calls to action (being, doing and having) of equal merit or should we prioritize here?

What if world travel became my life passion and I was driven to just have lots and lots of cool experiences and this is what I lived for?

Or what if, I amassed lots of wealth beyond my expectations that enables me to acquire lots of the best things that money can buy and this is what is most important to me?

What if, my monetary wealth and status allows me to exert power and influence attracting the attention of significant others and I came to enjoy the power plays?

Or instead, what if becoming a person of great character became central in my life and in doing so, it open doors to meeting really quality people that became life long friends and this became really important in my life?

The more I think about my life purpose the more I realize that the things that human beings value the most are the things that are internal or intangible that money or power per se cannot acquire. Is there anything greater than love, trust, respect, compassion, generosity or good health?

Considering your life purpose, if you spend decades of your life accumulating money and things, it could all be lost in a moments notice. The economy could crash, technology could overtake you or your physical body, at any moment could be rendered unfit to pursue what you love to do.

To get to the crux, the quality of the inner person that has been carefully molded and shaped by you, remains as your eternal treasure. Never take for granted, that people will truly come to love you for the quality of person that you are, not for what you have got or what you can do.

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Thursday, November 11, 2010

How To Motivate An Individual To Work Efficiently

By Dylan Groesch

There is one company that rewards its employees if they are able to make changes that are health oriented. For instance, if someone gives up smoking, then they are rewarded by adding some money to the health care. If someone is successful in bringing their weight down from the obesity level, then incentive is given.

A company employs the same technique. They offer their employee rewards if they are successful in achieving some target. If an employee is successful is losing weight, then he is awarded. Moreover, a reward is offered if a person leaves smoking.

Firstly, rewards serve have a positive influence. They are a nice way of complimenting people for a job well done. For the company mentioned above, employees were given incentives for reaching a target. Their performance improved. This benefited both the employees and the company as the number of people calling in sick dropped down.

This can also be applied to increase sales of your business that is internet based. Three reasons could be attributed to increase in sales of your business.

As far as your business is concerned, you can give away gifts on the purchase of your products or services. They will encourage sales.

Secondly, once they have purchased something from you, they will talk about your business with their friends and family. This will send more prospective buyers your way.

Thirdly, rewards area nice way of motivating people. How many times we see a child doing better at studies or something because of the promised reward at goal fulfillment. This is the technique grandparent use on their grand children.

To summarize, this technique will allow you to get initial positive response, get more people interested in buying from, and increase your sales. Therefore, do not wait for anything. Make it happen for your online business by offering incentives.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Learn Remote Viewing - Is It Really A Possibility?

By Patrick Smith

The ability to see objects, people or events, that are far away or has taken place in the past or will happen in the near future, that is, all those things that cannot be seen normally, is known as Remote Viewing . Hence, Remote viewing is a type of extra sensory perception or paranormal ability that enable a person is seeing things which are otherwise not visible to the naked eye.

It is commonly believed that remote viewing is a gifted ability. Very few people are born with it. But again, any psychic power or similar abilities which are related to the deepest core of human unconsciousness can be self developed. This can be done through practicing intense meditation.

Firstly, you can learn remote viewing by resorting to daily meditation. It should be remembered that to develop or learn any extra sensory perception or psychic power you should be fully aware of your subconscious mind and its potential.

In order to learn remote viewing you have to make your mind calm and decrease the number of thoughts coming across it. The two basic things your mind has to settle on are relaxation and concentration. In order to learn remote viewing you have to enter a stage of trance which will need the mind to be free of all thoughts. There is the necessity of attaining the height of subjectivity so that the subtlest perception from the universe can be focused onto.

You should start by tightening all your muscles and then relaxing all the parts of the body one after another so that you can achieve a state deep relaxation. Clear your mind of all disturbing thoughts by indulging into regular meditation. Focusing and concentrating on something at the back of your head while meditating is a good way to learn remote viewing. Thus you will be able to concentrate on something that you cannot see in front of you. You must develop strong skills of visualization, which is very necessary.

One can also learn remote viewing by the Law of attraction. Thus, if one truly believes that he can remote view from the core of his heart without a thread of doubt and constantly does verbal affirmations to himself like "I will be able to see this/him", the strength of this faith would definitely attract the same towards you causing it to manifest in reality.

Apart from these natural ways, one can also learn remote viewing with the help of technology in today's world. Human brains cause waves, and Delta Brain waves, or very slow brain waves that we cause during sleep is what needs to be attained during wakeful state in order to induce remote viewing. Highly experienced meditators are able to do it without difficulty.

In this way, remote viewing can be learned, using the brainwave synchronization/entertainment recording, which at different levels of consciousness, exposes the brain to repeated sounds of different frequencies. Using the three types of isochronic , monaural and the binaural beats and sounding them through each of your ears, the sound waves can be put through to the brain and synchronized to crate the mental condition that is needed to learn remote viewing.

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What Is A Cosmic Ordering Guide?

By Simon Day

Cosmic ordering guide refers to the belief that each individual is linked and thus is a part of the infinite cosmos with their thoughts, emotions and energy and aligning with the same can get all your life's desires fulfilled or manifested in reality.

If scientific facts are taken to account, magnetic charges are emitted through our emotions and electric charges are emitted through our thoughts. If these two signals can be aligned or tuned along with electro-magnetic charges of the cosmos, it is possible to achieve the desired things. Through cosmic ordering guide, you can achieve your desires and thus create your own reality.

Now to discuss in detail, cosmic ordering guide advices us to think about our wants in life, for example, your promotion or the car that you desire or anything which you crave for, and then you have to imagine that you already have it. You should truly believe that you have the thing in your procession and then let flow all your feelings of satisfaction and the like.

The first step of cosmic ordering guide is thus to discover the object of your desire, something you really, really want in your life. It can be anything a new Ferrari convertible or a new condo, a new promotion, a tour of the world - just any thing you really desire for or desire to be.

The next part of the Cosmic ordering guide tells you to believe from the bottom of your heart that you have risen to the level of being the head. At this point your imagination will become alive. You should not possess any kind of doubt and let flow all the feelings of satisfaction, happiness, prestige, passion, responsibility, excitement and the like, as if you have gotten what you wanted. The cosmic guide approach says that your thoughts and emotions will be tuned with that of the universe for fulfilling your desires in reality.

Cosmic ordering guide is the belief of the new age and is much similar with another new age concept, the Laws of Attraction. Both have their base in positive thinking, firm belief and faith in oneself and with the help of these they pave way to create reality. They teach us the way towards fulfilling one's desires which are to be attracted or ordered from the cosmos in order to be manifested in to reality. Only the approaches towards the both are different.

The Law if attraction says that you have to constantly believe, think and imagine that what you want is heading your way. It means, for example, that you have to constantly believe in yourself that you will become the head of your enterprise and in the near future you will truly achieve that goal.

The cosmic ordering guide tells you that already have a new Ferrari, you are proud of it. It is the present that Cosmic ordering guide is concerned with. Since you believe that you already have the Ferrari you want, your thoughts and emotions will emit the required electro-magnetic wave, getting stronger with your beliefs, align with the waves of the cosmos and result the actual manifestation and thus make way for taking you in a position when you can really have that Ferrari.

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Monday, November 8, 2010

The Reason Why Flowers Are Often Associated With Gladness

By Evan Brower

Flower pictures are a great source of happiness. They are looked upon as something that incurs happiness from deep within. This is why a lot of households have flower pictures situated in their living room because they want to invite happiness inside and when guests arrive, it immediately gets their attention.

You can use those flower image to decorate your own house or some items in your house. You can get those images from the internet while some you can get them yourself.

Women especially are more closer to these kinds of images than men so it perfectly fits them. These images are perfect as background decoration or the main decoration itself.

Some pictures can instantly capture your attention. It is up to you to choose which of these flower images are good at captivating you. Some choices can be inexpensive while others are expensive to purchase.

As you can see, spring and summer times are usually the seasons when flowers bloom. Therefore making it the best time to take photographs of them and recreate them as gifts later in the year for them to be reminded of the summer and spring. You can get creative when it comes to taking photos of flowers and turning them into gifts.

You can try different angles on the same flower or you can try different backgrounds on the same flower. All you need to do is to try out each and every angle and background you can see which one is the best. You can even attach other items to make sure that your flower stands out from its natural background.

You can look for some inspiration and some guide on how to take photos of your favorite flowers over the internet. Study how the photographer has taken the picture. And if you are not fond of taking pictures, you can purchase those images and send them over as gifts.

Find the right picture to fully satisfy your receiver. You can hone your skills in photography if you learn how to capture photos of flowers. When you have captured the perfect flower photo, you can give it to a special someone.

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Proving God Exists In Anselm's Ontological Argument

By Der Geheim Philosoph

For centuries, scholars have debated Anselm's Ontological Argument. St. Anselm purportedly originated the argument during his life time from the eleventh-twelfth centuries A.D. Although much controversy surrounds the argument, the argument contributed a significant legacy to the history of Philosophy.

In a priori fashion, Anselm's Ontological Argument attempts to prove the existence of God. The arguments start by deeming God the greatest thought of which could be thought. Therefore, God exists as an idea in any individual subject. However, an idea that also exists in reality is much greater than a mere subjective idea. If we confine God only to the mind, then we can think of something greater than God. Since no thought is greater than God, it necessarily follows that God must exist.

Although the syllogism is straight-forward, many contested the argument's value. A contemporary critic of Anselm, Gaunilo of Marmoutier, saw the argument as ludicrous. He posed that one could replace the concept of God with some fictitious island, which, as a result, would prove the existence of a clearly fictitious island. Gaunilo's argument fails, however, because the concept of an island does not presuppose ultimate ideals such as infinity, eternity, and the like, but we easily understand Gaunilo's point.

Some years later, the scholastic St. Thomas Aquinas clearly rendered St. Anselm's Ontological Argument much less effective. Aquinas countered by noting that Anselm rhetoric only persuaded those who already conceived God as the greatest idea of which could be thought. Aquinas suggested that many different thinkers think of God in different ways, and as a result, could not begin with Anselm's initial premise.

Immanuel Kant, some centuries later, very strongly opposed the St. Anselm's Ontological Argument. He contended that existence cannot be a predicate of an idea. For if an idea produced or caused existence, the preceding idea could not exist because existence occurs after the fact. Heidegger would similarly deem this a type of onto-theology.

Many other critiques exist as well. David Hume might, for example, conclude that the argument does prove the existence of God because all a priori arguments are necessarily valid. However, Hume rejected a priori arguments as sound epistemological justifications.

The argument faces critique other than soundness. The argument too implies a certain dualism, where ideas and reality come to exist in two separate realms of existence.

Although many scholars pounded Anselm's Ontological Argument, they certainly recognized its power, its persuasive rhetoric, and its simplicity. The Ontological Argument illustrates the power of deductive arguments, contributed a great deal of consequential debate on the concept of God, and highlights metaphysical paradoxes.

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Saturday, November 6, 2010

How To Stay Away From Falling Prey To Emotional Infidelity

By Matt Anderson

Many times, the thought of having a friend who you spend more time together with, much more than your spouse seems to be a harmless idea. It may seem petty and just talk and nothing more but you will be surprised.

There are times you had stayed late talking to your friend and your conscience was surely disturbed when you went home to your partner late. You therefore have to be honest with yourself.

It is easy to look at your emotional infidelity, view it as nothing like the physical infidelity, and hence think it is negligible. Both can and should however be looked at as harmful. The reason people should take it seriously is that once you taste those waters, you immediately begin your descent.

The reason this is a fragile situation is that it is possible to love your spouse and still end up having a great emotional connection with somebody else.

You should not look at a lively physical relation with your spouse and look at it as enough. Whenever you think that there is a lack of an intimate bond with your spouse, you are likely to jump first to the one you talk to a lot.

You may be surprised to know that you are committing emotional infidelity. It hurts your spouse and grieves them more than we may imagine at first.

Once you know that there is some level of connection between you and your friend, you should leave it as that. Crossing the line will only complicate stuff more. That is the peak within which you will enjoy the friendship, beyond that is a long shot. Once you are standing on this shaky ground, your relationship will start to sink drastically.

There is a high likelihood of that side dish becoming a real item. Whenever there is emotional infidelity, there can come up any situation that can lead to a break up or a divorce. You should keep working towards solving marital problems before they balloon into catastrophic levels.

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