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Arts & Humanities > Meaning of Life The myth of a 'secret' to happiness

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The Myth Of A "Secret" To HappinessThere is a pervasive human desire, as urgent as hunger, to discover the secret to happiness; to chance upon a mythical "philosopher's stone" of sustained and uninterrupted bliss. It is a subject that is as broad as an open mind and as deep as a black hole. To treat with it appropriately woul... More..

Celebrations & Holidays > Easter Easter: Too Christian for public schools?

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Is Easter Too Christian For Public Schools?Easter, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Passover...once again, in the race to become righteous finger pointers, the moral dervishes have trampled our collective social priorities into a bloody pulp. Let's get it straight, once and for all. It's simply this : together we should protect o... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Comparative Religion Is there one, true religion that is better than all the others?

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Is There One True Religion Which Is Better Than All The Others?At the outset, I must state that I am a Deist; that is, a spiritual soul without portfolio. Whether this state of mind contributes to or detracts from objectivity, I do not know. I do, however claim some knowledge of mankind and its ways, having lived through the ... More..

Relationships & Family > Communication Issues The truth: Do we really want to hear it?

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The Truth Do We Really Want To Hear It?Truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.it's one of the most potent and potentially dangerous abstractions in the human experience. Truth is an orphan child; it must feel bruised and beaten. It's the mistreated messenger that reminds us with brutal clarity of our real selves and... More..

Arts & Humanities > Awareness & Reality Why we question everything

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Why We Question EverythingWe are still a very primitive race of beings. For all of our vaunted social and scientific advancements, we can't even play together nicely on "sandbox earth". In truth, we are just feeling our way around in the dark afterbirth of the universe.Still, we have achieved a level of predictable survivabil... More..

Arts & Humanities > Ethics Are we drowning in excess?

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Are We Drowning In Excess?To suggest that we - we being the western world - are merely drowning in excess, beggars the truth. The fact is, we have gone down for the last time and our collective bloated bodies are washing up on the polluted beaches of avarice. We need only look to the "television in the refrigerator door" or t... More..

Arts & Humanities > Arts & Humanities (Other) Is artistic skill natural or learned?

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Is Artistic Skill Natural Or Learned?There are those socially enviable people who can, seemingly without effort, craft words and phrases with a flourish, who can train lines on a page to perform beautiful feats of vision or who can move with the graceful abandon of a sprite. Try as we may, practice as we might, unless the ess... More..

Arts & Humanities > Schools of Thought What kids can teach grown-ups about right and wrong

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It is a misconception born of immeasurable loss to believe that kids can teach us about right and wrong. The truth is more disturbing - they remind us of what we already knew and what was taken from us: innocence yanked with the abruptness of a four year old's soother and individuality excised by the lobotomy of socialization... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Immigration Issues Immigration: Finding a balance between assimilation and accommodation

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Give Me Your Poor, Your Tired, Your Huddled Masses - But Don't Give Me Attitude!Although it is not uniquely a Canadian problem, the resistance to assimilation by a certain percentage of ethnic groups who immigrate to a new country is, perhaps, exacerbated here by our collective propensity toward self-effacement and our near -... More..

Arts & Humanities > Schools of Thought Understanding non-conformism

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All hail the non-conformists, for they are the daring ones who carry society forward. When all the rules have been made, the social and religious parameters set in stone, it is the intrepid non-conformists who ensure that we do not sheepishly sink into mediocrity - that petrified forest of the soul.They are the pioneers, the ... More..

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