From the late physicist Richard Feynman: “No government has the right to decide on the truth of scientific principles, nor to prescribe in any way the character of the questions investigated. Neither may a government determine the aesthetic value of artistic creations, nor limit the forms of literacy or artistic expression. Nor should it pronounce on the validity of economic, historic, religious, or philosophical doctrines. Instead it has a duty to its citizens to maintain the freedom, to let those citizens contribute to the further adventure and the development of the human race.” In other words, no taxpayer subsidies for art, for the same reasons there should be no subsidies for anything we truly value. If it’s truly valuable, we shouldn’t want politicians anywhere near it–with few exceptions, none of which I can even think of at the moment.
Lack of time in nature is linked to depression and attention deficit disorder
“An emerging body of scientific evidence suggests not spending much time outdoors connected to the natural world can be connected to rising rates of depression, attention deficit disorder, Vitamin D deficiency (an epidemic in the world), and child obesity.” Being in nature is connected to cognitive development, the ability to learn, and the ability to control ourselves,” Richard Louv says.
Exposure to nature is so beneficial.
Humans are hard-wired genetically for an affiliation with the natural world and suffer when they’re deprived of it. (“biophilia” theory)
The brain relaxes in nature, entering a state of contemplative attention that is restorative or refreshing. Attention Restoration Theory (ART)
Louv says there’s enough evidence of the physical and mental health benefits of time in nature that schools should be mandated to include it in the standard curriculum.
Richard Louv is the author of Last Child in the Woods and The Nature Principle, says spending time in nature has a wide range of benefits for physical and mental health.
By Pauline Dakin, extract from CBC News
Toms’s footnote: If you can’t afford three or four hours to take a bushwalk, just take a walk. Taking a walk has been found to be the closest thing to a “cure all”. While you are walking, make sure to put your attention on your surroundings. Look at whatever is around you. If you can, do it in a park or by the sea.
Dogs Are Welcome In This Hotel
Found Wallet
A poor Jew finds a wallet with $700 in it. At his synagogue, he reads a notice saying that a wealthy congregant lost his wallet and is offering a $100 reward for it. He spots the owner and gives him the wallet.
The rich man counts the money and says, “I see you already took your reward.”
The poor man answers, “What?”
“This wallet had $800 in it when I lost it.”
They begin arguing, and eventually come before the rabbi.
Both state their case. The rich man concludes by saying, “Rabbi, I trust you believe ME.”
The rabbi says, “Of course,” and the rich man smiles. The poor man is crushed.
Then the rabbi hands the wallet to the poor man.
“What are you doing?!” yells the rich man.
The rabbi answers, “You are, of course, an honest man, and you say the wallet you lost had $800 in it. Therefore I’m sure it did. But if the man who found this wallet is a liar and a thief, he wouldn’t have returned it at all. Which means that this wallet must belong to somebody else. If that man steps forward, he’ll get the money. Until then, it belongs to the man who found it.”
“What about my money?” the rich man asks.
“Well, we’ll just have to wait until somebody finds a wallet with $800 in it…“
Thank You For Making The World A Better Place
,
Tears of Joy
Thank you!
Whenever you help another
You make the world a better place.
The world does not become better by a magician’s wand,
All of a sudden, as if by revolution.
It is made better for one person, by another,
One selfless, encouraging or inspirational act at a time.
For when the individual drops of kindness
Merge to become a trickle
And the trickles become a rivulet
Which, on merging, become a stream
The streams, in their turn a raging torrent
Then a mighty river
And the rivers, the ocean
Then, and only then
Will the tears of joy
Be greater than the tears of sadness in this world.
by Tom Grimshaw
It Is Only When A Mosquito Lands…
Gun Control Most Helps Criminals and Tyrants
According to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet Government was responsible for killing 60 million of its citizens. He wrote:
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Read more of this great man’s quotes here http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10420.Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
The Top 12 Business Startup Tools You Need Now
Thinking of starting your own business?
http://www.sitepronews.com/2014/03/05/top-12-business-startup-tools-need-now/
Linus Pauling On Cancer
Well, this 2-time Nobel Prize winner pretty much sums it up! No wonder he upset a few people who tried to denigrate him.
http://www.secondopinionfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/linus_pauling_letter.pdf
Inside Every Older Person
Because a spiritual being does not wrinkle with experience the way a body does.