Exception Finders and Today’s Skilled Moral Craftsmen

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A More Realistic View of Success

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What Atheist Intellectuals Can Learn from Religion

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From Martin Seligman

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world.

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Wisdom is Knowing the Exceptions to the Rule

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Quotes From The Help

Sometimes a movie comes along that reminds you of what our Filipino overseas workers are going through.  Here are some [...]

What makes a great playwright? Part 2

Here’s the full video of the Arthur Miller interview:

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The Anger that Makes a Great Playwright

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Can sugar cause cancer?

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How much is China worth?

[China's] export economy has created a foreign currency surplus of more than 3 trillion dollars.  And to give [...]

From Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The people is never corrupted, but it is often deceived.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Scripture and Reason

“(reply to the Diet of Worms) Since your majesty and your lordships desire a simple reply, I will [...]

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

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What is the difference between education and training?

You can be trained to manage a store, but an educated person understands the principles of the free [...]

Divorce or No Divorce?

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Why do good teachers leave the profession?

Very few people go into teaching for the money, but many people leave teaching because of the money.

When are some endings necessary?

There is a difference between helping someone who is disabled, incapable, or otherwise infirm versus helping someone who [...]

How Education Has Changed

What we have right now in many cases are instructors who want to be the sage on the [...]

What America Has to Stop Doing

The time for self-inflicted wounds to our economy has to be over.

Obama

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Kenya and the Missionaries

“When the missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They taught us to [...]

Losing One’s Voice

Singers have issues with their voices, which for most, is their only source of livelihood.  There are those who say that Whitney’s [...]

Whitney No Longer With Us

by Nathan Chua

It’s hard to swallow, but we have all felt the loss of such great artists like Michael Jackson to drugs. [...]

A Nuanced, Less Polarizing Approach to Christianity, Jeremy Lin Style

by Nathan Chua

With the kind of talk that’s swirling around basketball phenom Jeremy Lin, it’s hard for pundits to just talk about [...]

How things have changed with technology

…in 2005 Facebook didn’t exist for most people, “Twitter” was still a sound, the “cloud” was something in [...]

Not So Cool Pick Up Line

If you were a booger, I’d pick you first.

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The Importance of Education

Cordorcet, like his fellow Enlightenment thinkers, put enormous stress on public education to accomplish all of these goals.  [...]

From Rollo May

We have been led astray by our economic and biological models to think that the aim [...]

How do we end corruption?

by Nathan Chua

In his New York Times best selling book, “The End of Poverty,” Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world’s most sought [...]

What is real peace?

Real peace depends on shared prosperity.
From a BBC documentary

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Guaranteed Funniest Videos

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Who’s got the better eyebrows?

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Goodbye 2011

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Is physical attraction important?

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What are women looking for in men?

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Hell is Watching Fox News?

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Autism

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Taking Care of the Worker

I think about a company based in Warroad, Minnesota called Marvin Windows and Doors. During the recession, Marvin’s [...]

Busting Up Monopolies

Theodore Roosevelt disagreed. He was the Republican son of a wealthy family. He praised what the titans of industry had done to [...]

The Kind of Speeches We Need in the Philippines

‘At stake is whether this will be a country where working people can earn enough to raise a [...]

For the Aspiring Fashionistas

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Training Up a Child?

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The Crazy Ones That Steve Jobs Gave Voice To

Here is the complete text of a 1997 ad run by Apple:

Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. [...]

The Crazy Ones that Steve Jobs Gave Voice To

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Justice

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What is peace?

  

 

Peace is not the absence of war but the presence of justice. 

Martin Luther King, Jr.  

 

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Living Morons

Imagine a happy group of morons who are engaged in work.  They are carrying bricks in an open [...]

On Freud’s Psychology

Over and above all of the other virtues of his [Freud's] theory stands this one–it tries to envisage [...]

Freedom From Want

Freedom from want is a basic human right.

Barack Obama

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What is love...scientifically... 2

by Nathan Chua

As promised in the first part of this series on love, we will now discuss the types of [...]

What we can learn from 9/11

“People always see me happy, even on Mondays, and they ask, “Why are you always smiling?” And to that I respond, “If a [...]

Where does truth lie?

The crowd is untruth.  There is therefore no one who has more contempt for what it is to [...]

What Causes Heart Disease?

It’s a foodborne illness, and we’re never going to end the epidemic with stents, with bypasses, with the [...]

The Christian Split

[The] split between the ideal and the real is one of the major reasons Christians struggle.  The church [...]

Growing Inequality in the Land of Opportunity

 

The land of promise may now be the land of extremes.

Here is an interesting video about the growing inequality that is [...]

The Secret to Motivating Others to Work Hard for You

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

Aiming for Success

Don’t aim at success–the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are [...]

Liberation Theology

Learn to do right; seek justice.
Defend the oppressed.
Take up the cause of the fatherless;
plead the case of [...]

From Erich Fromm

 

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

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The Philippines: A Social Volcano

by Nathan Chua

With the daily news about horrendous crimes happening all over the country, most especially in the crowded urban areas, one [...]

Reith Lectures: Aung San Suu Kyi

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Why Man is Incurably Religious

Explanation is a potent enemy of powerlessness that emanates from ignorance.  Explanation, identifying, and labeling are all part [...]

On Making Tough Decisions

Decisions are very expensive, they cost you everything else.

by F. Estess

Quoted from the book: [...]

Being Angry the Right Way

 

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry [...]

A Good Mantra for Recovering Addicts

Everything is permissible for me”–but I will not be mastered by anything

1 Corinthians 6:12

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How to talk about sex with your teenager

by Nathan Chua

I recently chanced upon a book called, “The Seven Year Stretch” written by a couple of American psychologists.   I [...]

What is love...scientifically....

by Nathan Chua

Have you ever wondered if there is a scientific definition of love?  Wouldn’t it be great if we all knew [...]

Enjoying Beer Without the Belly

by Nathan Chua

This is for the beer lovers out there.  Do you love to drink beer socially but are having problems keeping [...]

Rwanda vs. The Philippines

by Nathan Chua

I just learned that there is this little known country in Africa that is progressing unlike any other country in [...]

The Key to Successful Parenting

 The key to successful parenting is not found in complex theories, elaborate family rules, or convoluted formulas for [...]

Cheap Chic Belt that Hardly Ever Goes Out of Style

by Nathan Chua

The last one of these I remember buying almost 7 years ago.  These canvas military belts never seem to go [...]

Solving the Bus Problem

Kings of the Road! We might as well ask, who owns these bus companies?

by Nathan Chua

Another senseless death happened and [...]

Irregular Verbs

by Yvonne Sy

With what we call Regular Verbs, to change the present form of the verb to its past (for use in [...]

Living Among the Dead

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Manila’s Most Disadvantaged Community

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Philippines: The City with too Many People

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The Tie between U.S. and China

You owe me a billion dollars, that’s your problem. 

You owe me a trillion dollars, that’s [...]

Existential Guilt and Responsibility

Man’s being is not only given to him but also demanded of him.  He is responsible for it; [...]

A Good Mantra for a Healthy Diet

Eat Right, Not Less.

Nathan Chua

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Tipping Waiters and Waitresses in the Philippines

by Nathan Chua

I overheard an American say to his Filipina wife, “I don’t understand.  In the U.S., the waiters get [...]

Keeping Wrinkles Out Cheaply

Facials are good but expensive. The question now is how to look young without saying goodbye to some large notes in [...]

Facial Tip from Abe Lincoln

Every man over forty is responsible for his face.

Abraham Lincoln

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Michael Moore on Bin Laden Killing

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Lie and Lay

by Yvonne Sy

Lie (to recline)

Present Tense: Lie down so you will feel better.

Past Tense: He lay down to relax.

Present Perfect: Craig has lain in bed [...]

Unbalanced Political and Economic Teaching

by Nathan Chua

I am not sure about the kind of economics they teach now in my college alma mater but after much [...]

News: Osama is Dead