Social change

Foreword “If today, in social psychology, I submit a paper to a social psychology journal showing that people think rationally, logically, act in their self-interest in situations I won't only be rejected they will send the men to my house to kill me....

Foreword The purpose of this post is my attempt to describe the insufficiencies of language and to explore better plausible solutions. The development of languages was slow and took thousands of years of biological and social evolution to attain the beginning...

Picture being a passenger on an airplane, you have been waiting for this day for a long time. A year of hard work has gone by and finally you are on your way to a relaxing vacation. Suddenly you hear over the PA,"Ladies and gentleman from the flight deck,...

Values today can be defined as broad preferences concerning appropriate courses of action or outcomes. Today our values reflect a person's sense of right and wrong or what "ought" to be, according to his/her background. A common misconception is that...

Nothing things can be described as an action, behavior or invention which has no benefit to the earth and everyone on it, but may still benefit the individual possibly to their own and/or others detriment. It is often a subject that is met with a lot...

Debate is a formal discussion on a particular matter in a public meeting or legislative assembly, in which opposing arguments are put forward and which usually end with a vote. The debates I have observed where of political nature or atheism vs theism...

Depending on a person's indoctrination, it is unpleasant for most people today to argue, fight, and even go to war and kill people. Even if whatever causes them to do so, is important to them, example sovereignty. There are very few people that do display...

Astrology, as I understand it, is the search for human meaning in the sky. Astrology began as a study as soon as human beings made conscious attempts to measure, record and predict seasonal changes by reference to astronomical cycles. Early evidence of...

I didn't want to begin this post on my blog without speaking about TRUTH. So here I go: When Einstein was asked about truth by the young J. Fresco (today 99), Einstein said,"We cannot see things as they really are only as our receptors can observe them....

The belief in having a purpose, other than the one you give to your life, I find tends to stop people from attempting to create their own path with out giving into fate. I always thought that the purpose of rain was to make plants grow until I heard the...