Live a life of constant learning and physical fitness. That is the way toward real life satisfaction. JP
“It is a matter of common knowledge that grave mistakes may often be traced to poor mental fitness. And because the mind is in a bad condition, loss of memory, depression and discontent often attack the it so violently as to drive out whatever knowledge it contains”
Live a life of constant learning and physical fitness. That is the way toward real life satisfaction.
Sometimes, you can forget how sharp the Greeks were and how wise about so many things.
From the article –
“It is a matter of common knowledge that grave mistakes may often be traced to poor mental fitness. And because the mind is in a bad condition, loss of memory, depression and discontent often attack the it so violently as to drive out whatever knowledge it contains”
via Moralities and the Moral Republic
This comes closer to summing up what my blog site is about more than anything I have written myself.
James Pilant
I’m going to side with the horses (and I don’t even like horses). I don’t think that butchering horses for their meat is a benefit to them.
Besides there is a heavy level of outrage in this particular posting. I very much admire the author’s passion and anger. I share it.
James Pilant
I support the inclusion of religious systems of morality in the national discourse (in this case, international). We have a responsibility to act in a moral way through our government as well as through our own actions.
James Pilant
via Persona
How many times do we have to read this same story? Telling someone that they have to stop paying to access a federal program, encouraging them to believe that they are going to get a loan modification, when your bank has already decided that no one is going to get this kind of deal, and then foreclosing on them when they fall for the bait – is this they way banks are supposed to make money?
James Pilant
I like the current one where there are more women than men. But that, of course, is merely my personal preference, I have no practical rationale.
There is something vaguely funny about radiation causing more male births. I’m sure there are a number of good jokes in there. However, it does demonstrate that our genetic structure gets played with when radiation changes in level.
Read the article. It’s fun.
James Pilant
via Hwaairfan's Blog
If my recollection is correct, roughly seven percent of American taxes (federal) are paid in by corporations. Some twenty years ago, that number was twenty percent. That’s a lot of difference. It hurts a lot of people and makes it difficult for the nation to do many necessary things. America’s infrastructure needs a trillion and a half dollars to restore it to full capability. That’s right, a great deal of our roads, pipelines, dams, etc. are in disrepair and it is not getting better.
James Pilant
The adjunct professor here tells us what happens when he flunks a majority of his students. –
What actually happens is that nothing happens. I feel no pressure from the colleges in either direction. My department chairpersons, on those rare occasions when I see them, are friendly, even warm. They don’t mention all those students who have failed my courses, and I don’t bring them up. There seems, as is often the case in colleges, to be a huge gulf between academia and reality. No one is thinking about the larger implications, let alone the morality, of admitting so many students to classes they cannot possibly pass. The colleges and the students and I are bobbing up and down in a great wave of societal forces—social optimism on a large scale, the sense of college as both a universal right and a need, financial necessity on the part of the colleges and the students alike, the desire to maintain high academic standards while admitting marginal students—that have coalesced into a mini-tsunami of difficulty. No one has drawn up the flowchart and seen that, although more-widespread college admission is a bonanza for the colleges and nice for the students and makes the entire United States of America feel rather pleased with itself, there is one point of irreconcilable conflict in the system, and that is the moment when the adjunct instructor, who by the nature of his job teaches the worst students, must ink the F on that first writing assignment.
I share some of these concerns. My persistent gripes about the “necessity” of policemen and firemen having to master college algebra is probably well known locally. A college education is appropriate in many fields but surely we can find a variety of mechanisms(of which a college education is a major choice but not the only choice) by which policemen and other municipal employees can be promoted.
James Pilant
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