Life is the story of the fight for love and glory. Billie Holiday, As Time Goes By Religion alone is not enough to explain. Philosophy alone is not enough to explain. Science is a wrong tool to begin with. Human thriving is rather ineffable and out of reach for science to grasp. I am interested (more…)
Why are there no women quoted on the homepage? Well, because we live in a male-centered world − like it or not, and women, on one hand, are unfortunately not heard that much, and on the other also have not said that much of what is categorically different from what males have said about the (more…)
THE RECKLESS − James Bond (? – immortal, it seems) is the stereotype of an MI6 00 agent. Yet Bond is a highly unique individual. He appears to be of sound mind and strong spirit, but can sometimes demonstrate a detached and even cruel streak. He is highly intelligent, exceedingly cunning, and diabolically independent. He is also (more…)
THE STOIC – Marcus Aurelius (April 26, 121 – March 17, 180) was a Roman emperor from 161 to 180 and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good Emperors, and the last emperor of the Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Roman Empire lasting from 27 BC to 180 AD. (more…)
THE CYNIC – Mark Twain (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the “greatest humorist the United States has produced”, and William Faulkner called him “the father of American literature”. His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter of which has often been (more…)
THE OPTIMIST – Sun Myung Moon (January 6, 1920 – September 3, 2012) was a Korean religious leader, also known for his business ventures and support for political causes. A messiah claimant, he was the founder of the Unification Church movement, its widely noted mass wedding ceremonies, and the author of its unique worldview explained in the Divine Principle. He was an anti-communist and an advocate (more…)
THE NIHILIST – Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980) was one of the key figures in the philosophy of Existentialism (and phenomenology), a French playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, literary critic, as well as a leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to do (more…)
THE PESSIMIST – Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind noumenal will. His work has been described as an exemplary manifestation of philosophical pessimism. In any case, Schopenhauer was leery (more…)
THE SKEPTIC – William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an original American thinker in and between the disciplines of physiology, psychology, and philosophy. James was the first educator to offer a psychology course in America, at Harvard, earning him the title of “Father of American psychology.” James also was instrumental in developing the highly influential ideas (more…)
HobbyJoy? What is that name symptomatic about, if anything? Let’s look at the word “hobby” first. Decades ago, my spouse told me that the late Rev. Sun Myung Moon once had said that people should live their lives as a hobby. It then sounded intriguing to me, and I wondered why anyone would say so, (more…)
