Humans … well … aren’t we a funny bunch. We (think we) are ‘oh so intelligent …adoptive … creative … civilized … and surely powerful’ among ‘the rest of the species’ who walk on earth… aren’t we? Oh, did I say ‘powerful’? hmm sure I did… well what do you know … [...]
Archive for the ‘Things that make me go “MM”’ Category
~ We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children; you forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one; Don’t blow it – good planets are hard to find ~
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 01/20/2011 | Leave a Comment »
Man In the Mirror ~ “As children, we played hide and seek with one another, as adults with ourselves – Yahia Lababidi ~
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 06/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Some things in life I must say – never would change. Reproduction is one such thing. From the perspective of science or even of religion; we believe; being born is endless. For human species to continue surviving, it is essential that mature adults who are capable of producing fertile offspring, to continue for [...]
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 05/22/2009 | Leave a Comment »
My mother used to tell me, if she ever wanted to calm her young baby (her eldest daughter); all she had to do was to play the radio …… The radio? ? Not lullabies?? Yep …… the radio …… She had no worries after wards she says; whether the baby s awake or not [...]
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 03/15/2009 | Leave a Comment »
I t was not long ago ….. ALABAMA “Authorities say at 10 people have been shot and killed in two southern Alabama towns, including the gunman. The Alabama department of safety says at least four shootings by a single gunman left at least nine people dead before he killed himself. The department says in a [...]
The world is so dreadfully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain. ~Ronald Firbank
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 01/30/2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. ~ Griff Niblack. For me, the quote has many meanings. I thought it‘s the best one I could use for today s blog. We humans, love to ‘discuss’, discussions on this, discussions on that. Weather has been one of the topics [...]
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so, therefore, A pint of example is worth a gallon of advice
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 01/17/2009 | Leave a Comment »
Celebrities; what are they, why are they here? Are they here just for our entertainment or to manipulate some of us a little? Why should one encourage a Celebrity to control other s’ life? So, does that mean media has an equal responsibility of the publicity they receive over their bad behavior? One can [...]
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder – If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 01/08/2009 | Leave a Comment »
We, humans on earth are unsatisfied creatures, for one reason or another; it’s the nature, we always find that there are things that we ’don’t have’. When some of us, think what we have always s ‘not enough’, some of us have ‘nothing at all’, fulfilling life s basic requirements s a fight for [...]
It takes two to lie ~ One to lie and one to listen
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 12/19/2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why do you think a person would lie to another? I can think of number of reasons but what ever the reason or the excuse some one has for their actions (lies), it is indeed a bad thing by all means. The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. [...]
Black or white
Posted in Things that make me go "MM" on 11/25/2008 | Leave a Comment »
The idea of linking color and behavior is reasonable enough. Anyone who has ever felt blue, seen red, blacked out, or turned green knows we’re prone to make emotional associations with different shades.
http://www.gaia.com/quotes/Winifred_Gallagher