http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu Time Enough For Love Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:20:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "To discover real good news is really great joy; to know bad news and stand opposite and do something for against is courage; to close eyes to avoid know something bad is ... to become cowards..." [Olga Bleykhman] We all know the Kassandra-effect, no one listens to the truthteller. Or "Don't ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2009/01/good-news-bad-news/ Water flows eating rocks growing trees feeding life we got to learn to accept change as a basis for life http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2009/01/change/ A thesis I once read asked: What if the solar system is what we consider an Atom? Planets (electrons) circling suns (protons/neutrons)? Then universe may be what we believe to be "god". Hmmm... Thinking a step further? What if our entire universe is nothing but one atom making the body ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/12/the-atomic-universe/ One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. [L. Long] Honor means something very different to most people. But the concept is rather easy. It is "self-respect". So if honor is in low supply, so I think is self-respect. Wikipedia summarized it very well: [Honor|Honour] is the evaluation of a person's ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/10/honor/ Based on Love vs. Friendship I got into a discussion what love is not. Love is not, if one forces you to love. Or manipulates you. If one threatens to suicide if you don't love. Neither if one dominates you, bosses you - nor if one beats you. Many times, love ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/10/what-love-is-not/ Would Marco Polo have been able to survive the first year of travel if he had been as focused on cultural differences as many people today are? Would my best friends not only be Germans? "Build a wall around Russia" an Irish consultant told me lately (2008) on LinkedIn when I ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/09/intercultural-communication/ The Ten Commandments are frequently discussed as outdated or even obsolete. Based on a discussion by Maureen Johnson with her father in To Sail Beyond The Sunset, concepts of Alan Dean Foster in his Commonwealth and many discussions with friends, I came up with the following 10 New Commandments. If you ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/09/the-10-new-commandments/ a new momentum one that could have been yearning for a moment more stifling look that his mirror was smiling with the widest of eyes brown think I was starting to think I was starting to think I have spare time down most of life churches we've seen on this bulbine which I have to grow in towering above the lantana planted there against ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/09/a-new-momentum/ Photo credit: Yuri Kozyrev / Noor for TIME Protected U.S. soldiers shield a wounded comrade from debris kicked up by a rescue helicopter in Qubah, Iraq. This is friendship. Unaffected, natural progressive harmony, streams that mesh into one the murmur of throaty thunder then a piercing shard of light slashes the horizon diamond brilliance it's clarity: ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/09/friends-or-foe/ Another concept in the context of "love" and the ancient Greek definitions is Xenia: My House Is Your House. I always called this "Open Door Principle". Anyone is welcome any time. There is a simple rule I get very upset if it is ignored: You are guest. You do not own the place ... http://sapphilosophy.barthel.eu/2008/09/xenia-my-house-is-your-house/