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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. http://www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Good website to news events in different parts of the world. |
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| Ready for the summer months ahead? I hope you are doing well. For the month of June, the topic is questioning the desire for comfort and security, or identifying the possible (or real?) consequences of living life primarily to obtain "personal peace and affluence". Lik-See, 6-11-04 I want to separate the basic drive all of us have for our well-being & safety and the focus of this month's topic - which is questioning the philosophy of life that makes comfort and security the main motivation in in all that we do and care about. Avoiding pain and trouble and difficulties as much as possible plays an essential part in living this way, something each of us cherish to some or great degree. I raise this question because of the ease by which it is to avoid doing many good things, e.g., sacrifice time to help someone in need, because it threatens the often overriding desire to be left alone, to be undisturbed with unpleasantries. So doing and accomplishing good things in life is minimized or just not done (and opportunities are wasted) because I care more about my personal comfort than anything else. But is this the way to live - even though the tendency is to avoid as much discomfort and 'trouble' as much as possible? I'll have more thoughts next month, but maybe there's something not-so-good about pursuing something that feels so good. Possible detriments of wanting too much of a comfortable and secure life: 1) you become selfish and detached and unempathetic to what others around you are going through. 2) you act as if the world revolves around you - forgetting that you are 1 out of 6 billion people on the earth. 3) you get easily agitated and impatient when even small things don't go your way. 4) you become apathetic to events going on locally or globally. 5) you realize that you have very little challenges in your life to exert yourself at. I'll continue this month's topic for next month also. |
| WHY THIS WEBSITE EXISTS: To share and stimulate thought and insight on life issues we can relate to. |
| Quote: Personal peace means just to be let alone, not to be troubled by the troubles of other people, whether across the world or across the city � to live one�s life with minimal possibilities of being personally disturbed. Personal peace means wanting to have my personal life pattern undisturbed in my lifetime, regardless of what the result will be in the lifetimes of my children and grandchildren. Affluence means an overwhelming and ever-increasing prosperity � a life made up of things, things, and more things � a success judged by an ever-higher level of material abundance. -- Francis Schaeffer The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: How important is it for you to pursue comfort & security as a goal in life? a) it's the most important goal to pursue in life. b) it's one of the most important goals to pursue in life. c) it's important as a means to other goals in life, but not as a primary goal in life. d) it's not important if it hinders you from goals in life that conflicts with it. e) who cares about the question - how much comfort & security you have is out of your control anyway! f) other |
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| LSC's basement: For this month, here's another one of my favorites - a movie scene I really like is from X-2: X-Men United. Look for the X-2 Men Sneak Peek. |
| You know you have an unhealthy desire to be left alone when: 1) You screen all your phone calls. 2) You don't pick up any calls that you've screened. 3) You look forward to evenings where you can watch more than 4 uninterrupted hours of T.V. 4) You never make eye contact with strangers, even those you have to interact with, e.g. the person at the cash register. 5) Your first reaction to someone knocking at your door is a fierce grimace. 6) Your "No Solicitation" sign at your front door is the size of a stop sign. 7) You leave social functions before the last set of guests arrive. 8) Your co-workers know virtually nothing about your personal life, and vice versa. 9) You like the fact that you have nothing to do when the weekend comes. 10) You think tele-marketing is the most evil job anyone can ever have. |
| ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
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| A little peace and quiet... |