THE ANCIENT PORVERB

An ancient Arabic proverb say:

He who knows, not and knows not that he knows, is a fool. Shun him

He who knows not, and knows that he know not, is a child. Teach him.

He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. wake him

He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man. Follow him.

There has been huge conflicts between the fool and the wise. Constant wars has been waged on which attribute gives more of an advantage to man, does being wise give more advantage or does being a fool give the edge. From the man outside looking in he would say without a doubt that being wise gives more of an advantage to man, but what the man doesn't realize is that being wise also has it's disadvantage while on the flip side being a fool does have its advantages. Even though this is thought by some it is still not reached by many so to get us thinking about this situation I ask the question to the reader which is do you think that being wise or a fool has it's advantages and its disadvantages if you thing so what are they? and how do they improve man?

Fear and Love

Niccolo Machiavellli Said:

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

I somewhat feel this is true because if people feared a person such as a CEO of a company or a leader for a group of employees the person in charge would be able to get his workers to work much more efficiently by placing fear into his laborors instead of that leader showing love and kindness towards them. But I also think there is a downfall to this because if people feared a person all the time they would be more prone to not like that person and eventually prey for that persons downfall. When thinking about this there is both a good and bad side to this situations. So I ask the question to my fellow readers. What do you think about the topic at hand? Do you think it is better to be loved or feared?

message on the war

Everyday you hear about the Iraq war in the news, people are being killed, families being destroyed, the countries at war. so much destruction and fighting I always wonder what are the purposes of war? what are its goals? It seems like war is never between people but always between nations, it like the people in our government never considers us when they go into to war they just make the decision and here we are war is created. Everyday were spending Billions on the war and its having a major effect on our economy, if it doesn't make the situation worst president Bush just asked congress for another 100 billion dollars to help the war efforts in Iraq, he just might get his wish since the democrats don't want to send a message to the soldiers that they're abandoning them because they don't want to fund this expensive war any more. I guess when your in the position of power that somethings your going to have to consider. When or when not to stop a war that has gone very bad? The war is expensive and pretty soon with the billions of dollars their spending everyday people in America will being to lose their jobs because there is little to no money in the economy left to create employment. So my question to the readers are what do you think about the war and what do you think about losing jobs because of the war? what do you think about not being able to find work in America if the war continues?

Man does not live on bread along

"Man does not live by bread alone. I have known millionaires starving for lack of the nutriment which alone can sustain all that is human in man, and I know workmen, and many so-called poor men, who revel in luxuries beyond the power of those millionaires to reach. It is the mind that makes the body rich. There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. Money can only be the useful drudge of things immeasurably higher than itself. Exalted beyond this, as it sometimes is, it remains Caliban still and still plays the beast. My aspirations take a higher flight. Mine be it to have contributed to the enlightenment and the joys of the mind, to the things of the spirit, to all that tends to bring into the lives of the toilers of Pittsburgh sweetness and light. I hold this the noblest possible

This is a quote by the famous andrew Carnegie who in the gilded ages was considered to be the richest man in the world. His main focus was on his steel company but he was also know for building libraries for people who could not afford books. He made it imperative that man and women of rich fortunes make their contributions by helping their fellow man (mainly the citizens of the poor and working class)help themself, by getting jobs or helping them to get an education. Carnegie believed that if the rich did this it would benifit the world as a whole. Hopefully after reading his quote you get some idea and some foresight into his quote. A question I would like to ask everyone who is reading this is what do you think the role of the rich should be and do you think they are doing a good job right now?

Do My Senses Deceive Me?

Do my senses deceive me? Is what I see real? Or is my eyes just telling my brain what it wants me to see? Is the things that I touch really? Are the voices and the sounds I hear authentic? Or is it just my ears deceiving my brain to what it wants me to hear? Is the smell of the beautiful flower genuine or is it just my nose trying to remind me what the smell of eloquence is? Maybe we need to look into a little bit of metaphysics to give us the answer? I certainly believe we need to look deeply to find a real solution? Is my senses really the best tools to use when it comes to finding the truth about the world or humanity? Or do these same tools fail in their areas?
What’s funny about it is if I were to ask fellow man these same questions he would think I’m crazy or that I’m a person that belongs in a metal institution. But are these questions really crazy or is it questions we should be really asking ourselves?
When I look at the sun is it bigger then what I imagine it to be taking the evidence presented from my vision? As a human being I rely deeply on my senses. I can’t even imagine the things beyond me not being real. If I in actuality discovered that the sun was bigger than the way my eyes presented them to me, I would really have to question the accuracy of my senses.
Maybe this is the cause for why there are so many problems in the world? May be this is the reasons Why man Is blind, confused, ignorant and arrogant of his environment, of his fellow man and of himself? Man maybe seeing, hearing touching, tasting or smelling false things when he thinks they are legitimate? Maybe all the things in front of him are illusions? Do my eyes, nose, tough, ears, fingers and toes work within themselves? Do they each have their own agenda into deceiving my brain into what they want it to think? Are all my senses giving me real information or is it something else in human beings that we haven’t discovered yet that would really tell us the whole truth about the world and everything in it? Will we ever get to this truth or will we be just wasting time? Only time and understanding will tell us future.