Humanism Way to a Better Us Explained by Experts

 

The video showcases reputable experts in their field from biology, psychology and philosophy and their take on humanism. Its introduction to humanism answers the questions on its importance, having life in the here and now, finding a way to live an ethical life, realizing the use of human's ability in discovering our nature and how can we use the understanding to our advantage.

Understanding is an effective way to better our standing as an individual immersed in diversity. This can be done by the habit of critical inquiry that changes mind when facts are presented. Scientific thinking hones this ability. The wonder, entertainment and thrill that science and scientific way of thinking serves, as Richard Dawkins enunciated, is a poetry of reality.

"It's up to us" summarizes it all.

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The Time is Write

Poetry is an… (Photo credit: liber(the poet);)

Reading The time Is Write blog on Making a Leap made me wonder if I am becoming the writer I want to be. Which brings me to a question do I really know what I want to write?

The blogger’s preference to creative nonfiction over fiction enables me to consider if my shower of poetry is refreshing both to me and to those who consider to read it.

Suddenly I feel unappreciated. My poetry sucks most of the time but I still continue because my appreciation of thoughts turn to words brings me unprecedented scent of well-being.

So, to beat the insecurity out of me, I hit the keyboard in the “poetry writing tips” letters (of course ‘enter’ at the end) and found this useful blog

Don’t be afraid to write from a different point of view. Write a poem that says exactly the opposite of what you believe. If you can’t do it without irony.

Listen to talk radio while you write. Listen to the people who call. Great characters and voices emerge that way.

Aside from fact that the above tips are my favorites and I resolve to do in my next attempt to bathe with words, will it bring me back to the question do I really know what I want to write?

All I know is I just want to better my poetry and continue to have a habit of writing since I started using WordPress blog this month. So any topic that would arouse my ire(not this case, of course), feed my curiosity, and widen my horizons will soak my writing tub.

To cover my naked writing prowess is to towel nameless topic.

Sweet Chillies

chili peppers (Photo credit: marzbars)

Let's learn from this story:

A rich merchant saw a man selling a small green fruit which he had never seen before. The merchant was hungry and the luscious green fruit looked so fresh and appetizing and the merchant was tempted and curious so he asked the vendor,

“What is this...?”

“Chillies, fresh green chillies,” said the hawker.

The merchant held out a gold coin and the vendor was so overjoyed that he gave the merchant the full basket of chillies.

Busy As a Bee

Well, not in pollinating way but in a rhyming way.


I have been busy with my other blog that I am not able to fulfill my everyday entry here. It doesn't mean that this blog will be forgotten or less to be attended to. It only means that with time comes a meaningful elaboration.


Asking the right question, finding answer to that and making sense of that Q&A is no easy task. It requires gathering information, being critical of those and courage to change your mind, if not others. But with practice, I am determined to do elaboration on topics that I perceive to be meaningful in one existence. 

Which Type are You?

Well, I guess the above image relates to writing activity. It's safe to be the average. But in a small organization finding its way to success, a strategist must be able to make plan long term goals by analyzing the risk, and be able to multitask in the balance in exercising risk-taking and cautious decision making to accommodate the task to be prioritized. 


Of course, we cannot find all those characteristics in one personality. This describes the role of these personalities in the success of an organization.


Which type are you?

If you can, would you?

Theirs is a life where an old, dirty ball kissing the dust is their only source of joy, where memories of their loved ones are their only possession, where their only hope is to have a food to be shared and wake up the next morning with body parts intact if not burned to death. This is the everyday reality of the children in South Sudan trapped in a war that gives meaning to Sam Childers’ life. His humanity made me watch the movie “Machine Gun Preacher” till the end. It makes me dwell on the question if I could, would I? 

The "Boson" Line

As much as I would like to have a religious note on the line "God particle" in the quantum mechanics song being played in the physics' air, it will be the least to modulate in my greatest dance hit.  Since it feels great that physics' origin of the universe crescendo has just begun, dancing to its up beat is the "boson" line.

Major Performance

Sixth Sense, as Wikipedia defined, is

• Extrasensory perception (ESP), commonly called the sixth sense
• Equilibrioception (sense of balance) and proprioception (sense of body position), commonly accepted physiological senses in addition to the usually considered "five senses"
• SixthSense, a wearable gestural interface

Above mentioned gadget is another means for humans to acquire knowledge crucial for decision making.  


"Minority Report"  featured this technology. In this movie, easy access to information through intangible interface prevented crimes to realize until its venal use.
In Hardwire movie, a chip implanted in the person's brain to set the stage of advertisements performed by projected actors in one's brain simulated a sixth sense activity. It is done to ascertain the effect of influencing a person to buy products. 


As depicted in the movie characters' performance, the desire to make right decisions should fuel the mass production of this wearable gestural interface.

Cognitive ability has helped humanity survived dangerous circumstance by foreseeing (weather forecasting, statistical occurrence). Interconnecting patterns raised by both intuition and acknowledgement of desire were utilized to improve lives: easy access to information, thus making intelligent acts. Its utilization to ensure the survival of the billion years of evolution is an appreciative gesture to the sacrifices made. Its the gesture that finds meaning in one's desire. 


Which desire to be met is a question of one's value system. 

Do we value convenience more than hard work to achieve knowledge to be able to choose? Do we value popularity more than accomplishing the task rightly? Do we value wisdom for using this sixth sense to promote informed choice rather than using it as advertisement to lure unnecessary consumption? 


A gesture is worth a thousand words. A minority report in a major performance.

Safe, Gone, Haywire

It is inspired by the trailers in the movie I watched.

Since I haven't seen these movies yet, my say on these is suspended. You can Google for the plot if you wish.


What is this for?


I just got curious by the idea that all of them are one-word title. So I play with the words to make this blog. At first I had to decide if it will be "Haywire Gone Safe" or "Safe Gone Haywire"


Both appeared pessimistic. 


So I just follow the sequence it was shown accordingly.


Anyways, just a thought. Nothing serious. 

On my way...

On my way...is just another journey

To a land of infinite possibility

where the vastness is a discovery

magnified by my curiosity.

  

 "Remember to look up at the stars

and not down at your feet.

 Try to make sense of what you see 

and wonder what makes the universe exist.

Be Curious...

There's always something you can do and succeed..."  Prof. Stephen Hawking

Turn the world upside down

enjoy the view from the ground

Sky is blue when darkness is gone

it is mysterious when stars come

Open the mind, dare to think different

 

unlock limitation and be innovative

wind seems only allows us to breathe

it can wing us to sources of unknown bliss.

Choose Education

Life teaches us to choose. Education trains to make right choices.

Blow Up

"A child who burns ants to death with a magnifying glass simply for amusement may be called deranged. Substitute humans for the ants, and the child would be called god"-- Lindsey Brown

The image magnifies the idea of fun from malevolence to what is perceived to be having or being less.

First, my take on having fun for a wrong reason defines you as a person. A child being amused by killing is nasty. Killing a helpless ant is totally cruel. A parent that takes pride in the killing of a helpless ant is neither fabulous nor fun. It is insane.

Second, ant maybe helpless,less, for that matter, alone but its strength lies when with others. Ants can be envied for having fun and being productive with other ants but human find ways to CREATE his own amusement.

  

Being nasty to the ant that was deviated from the rest can be fun to a child because he doesn't know any better. And worse, fun derived from making the ant miserable denies one from being a better person. The fulfillment is not derived from intended fun but from "because I/we can" pun.


That third reason is my way of elaborating this:

Why?

The idea of having fun for the sake of it must be magnified. The fun derived from irritating others by showing off and be looked up to is an insane amusement.  


Human evolved from ant's social behavior. The fact that humans can do more than what ants can proves human can be better than bully an ant. 

I can be that child. But I grow up and magnify ideas instead.

KISS, my way

Keeping it simple and short (single-paged) is making up my way to info-graphics


This I found from the cyber world

And also this,

And this site gave me mouthful.

Motherhood

Mothers are the most forgiving people in the world. The following should not be mistaken.

If kids were sick, it doesn't mean that the mother is wrong in taking care of them, or they were not able to strengthen their immune system even if they were breastfed, it is just that kids must experience and eventually know what their body can tolerate, in order for them to enhance it.

If kids failed expectations, say to be good and smart, it doesn't mean that motherhood fails in recognizing them to be a model of their parents. It is just that kids have their own way and happy with that. Remember that it's too early for the kids to act as ourselves. Let them have their own lives to live.

Most importantly, if kids didn't learn, it is not because motherhood fails in doing the right thing. It is because she cannot forgive herself for doing everything wrong believing her choice is the only right.

100th Birthday

Looking for something that will surprise you? 


Well, Google has a fair share of it. Once in a while I just check on this website's interface. Capture it and share the fascination through this blog.


What happens when you combined 100 and Tune it in? It's Alan Turing 100th Birthday.

Outlet

Over my naked body

Under my skin

Toppings on my meal

Lure of the king

Engage the ordeal

Take my hint

Life is like Photography

Old school. Just point and shoot. (just kidding...)

What is more important than fear?

“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.”

James Neil Hollingworth (1933-1996);
Pseudonym Ambrose Redmoon, Writer, Former Manager Of The Folk Rock Band Quicksilver Messenger Service

She made me cry with her story

Consistency Defined

Cracking the character building acting explains how consistency is defined in their respective movies...


#2 Brad Pitt's Oral Fixation

#1 John Cusack is "It's raining, Man"

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