by Ric Vatner | May 9, 2023 | Bullying and Discrimination, Featured Post, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Moral Dilemmas, Philosophy in Daily Life, Western Philosophy
Have you ever had a problem with bullies or a bully? I tend to associate bullies with school, because that was where I first met them, but some people meet them in the army, at work, in a volunteer organisation or even at home. In fact, you can meet them everywhere...
by Ric Vatner | Jul 22, 2010 | Featured Post, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Moral Dilemmas, Science and Philosophy
Updated 3rd April 2022 Your browser does not support the video tag. I wrote this article 12 years before the CoVid Pandemic. How safe is it to revive dormant microbes, viruses or bacteria? 2009 Dr Jennifer Loveland-Curtze and a team of scientists from the...
by Guest Post - Susan LI | Jun 22, 2010 | Breaking Up, Featured Post, Guest Posts, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Love and Relationship, Philosophy in Daily Life
Updated 5-4-23 Reader Comments on Shadow in the Flame I value all our reader comments and I know that many of you read them as much as you do the articles. They all contribute a tremendous amount towards making this blog the community it has become. However, from time...
by Guest Post -Yasmin | Jun 22, 2010 | Family, Featured Post, Guest Posts, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Philosophy in Daily Life
Our First Article submitted by a Reader Hi Ric, How are you today? I hope you are having a really wonderful beautiful day today, and everyday. After reading your articles and giving it a lot of thought, I wanted to write and tell you what I believe. We humans learn...
by Ric Vatner | Feb 1, 2010 | Featured Post, From the Editor to You, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Philosophy in Daily Life, Uncategorized
Hello Everyone, Happy New Year! I certainly feel this will be a great year for me and I hope it is for you too. But before I go on I owe you all an apology. I am sooooooooo sorry I have not posted any articles since October. You may have heard of the old Chinese curse...
by Guest Post - Dwayne Schulz | Nov 25, 2009 | Guest Posts, Life - Confronting Life's Challenges, Politics and Society
by Dwayne Schulz 1. Things and Events The River of Change The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus once famously remarked ‘It is not possible to step twice in to the same river for fresh waters are ever flowing in upon you’. What he meant was that all things are in...