Category: Life & Living

Robert Green Ingersoll was a Civil War veteran and famed orator during the Golden Age of Freethought - a time in history when people questioned the traditional ideas and thinking of the society they lived in. When narrow-mindedness was challenged and replaced with a more impartial way of looking at things - tolerance. Yet Ingersoll is rarely remembered for such powerful statements such as, “Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.” Tolerance is “a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one's own.” It’s a characteristic of the very democracy we all celebrate and appreciate on a day which has become more about barbecues and fireworks than our independence - The 4th of July. Though decades have…

According to Christian activists, the end of the world is coming on Saturday, May 21st.  Mark your calendars folks. Thankfully, the NCIS season finale is on May 17th - so at least I’ll have finality on the continued port-to-port killer story line before we die. Such an apocalypse has been predicted countless times before and yet here we still are! But for argument’s sake, let’s just say the end of the world IS on May 21st. How do you think your life has turned out so far? Is the person you see in the mirror the person everyone else sees? Have you become a part of the materialistic generation or a generation of people truly trying to change the world and themselves? It’s naïve for us to think that our…

Here’s a personal exercise you should definitely try, from everyone’s favorite neighbor, Mister Rogers. Go ahead, try it…you might be surprised how difficult it really is. “Here’s a gift you may not have expected. It’s a gift for you to give yourself. Sometime in your day today, try to turn off all the noises you can around you, and give yourself some “quiet time.” In the silence, let yourself think about something. Or if possible…think about nothing.” Sounds simple doesn’t it? But we’ve become a society that simply cannot function without continual audible distractions. It’s almost as if the noise in our lives serves as a kind of coping mechanism to cover up reality. I mean what other reason would people have for finding it so incredibly difficult to have…