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Reflective equilibrium

No moral position is universal and that each society makes its own moral rules unfettered, so that even acts we would view as unequivocally immoral could be morally unobjectionable in some other culture. kayan people in vietnam put rings around their neck general conformity to values, especially if it is cited in…

Peer Pressure Proof

People who don't have a cohesive sense of self will feel the need to conform and will easily succumb to peer pressure

The World is Perfect

A Zen monk in a Japanese temple draws beautiful lines in the sand and makes a wonderful pattern. He then draws a line in the pattern, in his mind disfiguring the pattern, the reasoning behind this is his view is that nothing is perfect in this world. What is perfect? That is a misconstrued concept, the world is as it…

hair is an extension of nervous system

why is hair so rapidly replaced, after cut out ?and why is it so difficult to keep from growing ?hair is more important than we realise Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself

The answer lies in the cancer

Most cancers are the result of "immortal" cells that have ways of evading this programmed destruction of telomere. Cancer cells use every trick in the book to gain immortality. One of their cleverer maneuvers is to keep the little caps, called telomeres, at the end of their chromosomes long. As a normal cell divides…

"Healthy Aging" is not enough

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” http://www.longecity.org/forum/page/index.html/_/articles/action/brokenportal2010

Butterfly effect

life might be emerged on earth because of some speck of organic dust carried on by a random meteorite which decided to hit up on earth on the right spot which have all other stuff for sustained evolution ,with out that single meteorite nothing would have ever happened or will ever one know about nothing happened

transcend sexual desire

It is a life-affirming and soul building accomplishment to overcome the pull of sex desire and transmute the saved energy into productive endeavors.

Nonconceptual awareness

When we spend time in the wilderness, it can be tempting to focus our awareness on "doing" something: taking pictures; getting a certain amount of physical exercise; traveling from point A to point B; naming all the species of birds we encounter. While nature photography is a lovely craft, and we need to exercise for…