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I wrote like a maniac for Helium at one point and got very little out of it, except exposure. So I don't post anything here anymore and you can find me at my official website.

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Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism Who was Siddhartha Gautama?: 1 of 18
Prince Siddhartha Gautama (est. 563 - 483 BCE) Prince, warrior, scholar, and teacher. Aka: Sanskrit: Siddhartha Gotama, later: Shakyamuni Buddha or The awakened one of the Shakya clan. "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumoured by many. Do ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Africa Is Robert Mugabe responsible for the problems in Zimbabwe?: 2 of 24
"We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, ... Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas." -Robert Gabriel Mugabe (RGM)In 2000 a campaign of violence and terror rocked the entire Zimbabwe nation to its core. Le... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Trends Online social networking, are they really your friends?: 1 of 11
If you are like me and you have joined an online social network (OSN) site within the last few years, then this might be a question you find yourself asking from time to time. Indeed this is a question one should ask not only from within an OSN but your physical daily world too, but the difference is that in the world at larg... More..
Computers & Technology > Internet Trends Beginner's guide to file sharing and P2P systems: 1 of 9
File sharing, mainly practised on P2P networks is a very constructive and practical technology, and like all technologies is neither good nor bad, it just depends on it is use by the user. Don't be scared off by the likes of the Napster chaos or Kazaa horror stories. You can use it and greatly benefit from it's abilities with... More..
Sciences > Disease & Illness What is the role of viruses on planet Earth?: 1 of 8
Viruses from the Latin "virus" meaning poison undoubtedly occupies a crucial role in the earth's biosphere. Yet they defy solid explanation by modern science and there is some question as to whether they are living organisms at all. Viruses exhibit characteristics of both organic life and inorganic, living and non-living. All... More..
Sciences > Astronomy Legends about the Sun: 1 of 8
"If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware... I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sunrise" -Vincent Van Gough T... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism Buddhism: Introduction to the Nirvana: 2 of 15
"Where there is nothing; where naught is grasped Paranirvana do I call it the utter extinction of ageing and dying."-Shakyamuni BuddhaNirvana is simply the experience of freedom from the cycles of Samsara or the eternal cycles of cause and effect, death and re-birth. There are two stages to Nirvana; firstly to achieve and exp... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism Self and no-self in Buddhism: 2 of 13
Buddha realised that in order to explain and guide people out of suffering and toward enlightenment he must rely upon explaining common human truths in our world that could be seen, recognised and then understood by all. This is one of the reasons why 2500 years later in a completely different time and civilisation we can sti... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Buddhism The Buddhist outlook on the individual: 1 of 5
"No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."-SB The concept, experience and understanding of the individual are paramount in Buddhist teachings. The illusory concept of a permanent self is called Ignorance in Buddhism. One of the teachings of Buddha featured a way to fully compr... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Spiritual Insights Is mind-reading real or fake?: 15 of 69
It really is a most interesting question, one we have been asking for a very, very long time. The ability to understand what another person is thinking at a given moment in time has been equally hailed and dismissed for thousands of years by modern man. I have looked at it holistically and taken all the known (to me) factors ... More..