14 Nov 10 The Bridge
A man on his Harley was riding along a California beach when suddenly the sky clouded above his head and, in a booming voice, God said, ‘because you have tried to be faithful to me in all ways, I will grant you one wish.’
The biker pulled over and said, ‘Build a bridge to Hawaii so I can ride over anytime I want.’
God replied, ‘Your request is materialistic; think of the enormous challenges for that kind of undertaking; the supports required reaching the bottom of the Pacific and the concrete and steel it would take! I can do it, but it is hard for me to justify your desire for worldly things. Take a little more time and think of something that could possibly help mankind.’
The biker thought about it for a long time. Finally, he said, ‘God, I wish that I, and all men, could understand women; I want to know how she feels inside, what she’s thinking when she gives me the silent treatment, why she cries, what she means when she says nothing’s wrong, why she snaps and complains when I try to help, and how I can make a woman truly happy.
God replied: ‘do you want two lanes or four on that bridge?”
Tags: biker, bridge, california beach, concrete and steel, desire, enormous challenges, god, harley, hawaii, long time, mankind, silent treatment, sky, worldly things
19 Oct 08 Men think about sex every seven seconds
Males are driven to reproduce, evolutionarily speaking, but there is no scientific way of measuring to what extent that desire consumes their everyday lives. Thankfully, for world productivity as a whole, seven seconds seems a gross overstatement, as best researchers can tell.
Tags: desire, everyday lives, extent, overstatement, productivity, seven seconds
29 May 08 Liberty Or Democracy?
Isn’t it the same thing? Doesn’t one lead to the other? Well not quite. No? Why not?
In an ideal democracy, we’d get to vote on everything wouldn’t we? We’d get to vote for tax levels, for local and national laws, for school boards, police chiefs etc. So far, so good?
If you live in a condominium community, or a housing association, you probably get a vote on various aspects of how your community is run, and how your maintenance or regime fees get spent. Sounds fair, doesn’t it?
Let’s take that local community voting one step further however. How about if you were told that you couldn’t choose your spouse, but that the local community would take a vote on who would marry each other. They would of course (?) base it on good sense, perceived compatibility, a desire to have a peaceful neighborhood, and take into account you and your chosen partners future happiness. In other words all done in good faith, by your local governing body, with everyone’s best interests at heart.
Not realy such a good idea is it? Very democratic, although your liberty to marry who you choose went out the window.
So, democracy, and liberty, are clearly NOT the same thing are they?
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – wrote Thomas Jefferson. So which is it? What do we want most? Democracy, or liberty? There’s really no contest is there?
Tags: compatibility, condominium community, democracy, desire, good faith, good sense, heart, housing association, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, local community, local governing body, peaceful neighborhood, police chiefs, pursuit of happiness, regime, thomas jefferson
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