Tag Archives: Life

Jordan Peterson’s Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS | One of the Most Eye Opening Speeches

Things to think about… Video: YouTube

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Jordan Peterson Leaves the Audience SPEECHLESS | One of the Best Motivational Speeches Ever

Smart words to live by… Video: YouTube

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Joe Rogan’s Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS | One of The Most Eye Opening Motivational Videos Ever

Something to consider before you reach that point of no return, whenever or whatever that might be… Video: YouTube https://youtu.be/LFX_tyicBT4  

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Memorial Day

Our undying gratitude goes out to all of the brave men and women who sacrificed limb and life for our freedom. TGO  

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Everything in the Universe Will Die One Day w/Brian Greene | Joe Rogan

More fascinating “stuff” from Brian Greene. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Stephen Fry on Political Correctness and Clear Thinking

An interesting perspective… TGO Video: YouTube

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Jordan Peterson – Wasting Time and Opportunities

This has been my life in a nutshell; wasting time and opportunities. TGO Video: YouTube

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Jordan Peterson – If you aren’t willing to be a fool you can’t be a master (Circumambulation)

Yet another video to provoke thought… TGO Video: YouTube  

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Jordan Peterson *NEW* The Meaning of Life

Does life have meaning? Does it all really matter? Does what we do day after day, month after month, year after year make a difference? Watch the video for one person’s view on these questions. TGO Video: YouTube  

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92-year-old woman ‘kills son’ to avoid being sent to assisted living community

She didn’t want to stay in an assisted living facility, so now she’s staying in jail. Brilliant! I can’t imagine this sh*t happening anywhere else other than in America. TGO Refer to story below. Source: The Independent Clark Mindock, The … Continue reading

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This Is Biggest Regret in Life Most People Have

I have many, many regrets. Some regrets deal with the bad decisions I’ve made in my life; decisions that have hurt other people. Other regrets deal with the decisions I’ve  failed to make for me personally, mostly because I didn’t … Continue reading

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Jordan Peterson: Inequality and hierarchy give life its purpose

Comparing oneself to other, more successful people, is something that I believe the overwhelming majority of people are guilty of. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Jordan Peterson: Why Get Married?

An interesting, and very positive/constructive way to look at marriage. If every married individual had this perspective maybe the divorce rate wouldn’t be +/- 60%. TGO Video: YouTube  

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Scientists Say They’ve Found ‘Oldest Evidence’ Of Life On Earth

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: HuffPost Dominique Mosbergen HuffPost September 28, 2017 <img alt=”Saglek Fjord in northern Labrador, Canada. Scientists said they'd found what could be the oldest traces of life on Earth in rocks found in the northern … Continue reading

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Methane in Mars Meteorites Suggests Possibility of Life

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi Methane, a potential sign of primitive life, has been found in meteorites from Mars, adding weight to the idea that life could live off methane on the … Continue reading

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Evolution Deniers Believe in ‘Smorgasbord’ of Science

The religiously indoctrinated will do anything to justify their beliefs, despite the fact that in reality they KNOW that their beliefs are bogus. Such is the mind once tarnished with superstition. This is why religious people cannot or simply refuse … Continue reading

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Scientists re-create what may be life’s first spark

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press Associated Press SETH BORENSTEINDecember 8, 2014 WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists in a lab used a powerful laser to re-create what might have been the original spark of life on Earth. … Continue reading

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‘Big Bang’ of Species May Be Explained by Continental Shift

Interesting observations regarding the “abrupt” increase in animal species several hundred million years ago. TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Kelly Dickerson  A sudden explosion of new life-forms hundreds of millions of years ago may have been triggered … Continue reading

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Methane-spewing microbe blamed in Earth’s worst mass extinction

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Will Dunham March 31, 2014 4:00 PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sometimes bad things come in small packages. A microbe that spewed humongous amounts of methane into Earth’s atmosphere triggered a … Continue reading

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Solar Wind Creates Water in Star Dust, Implications for Life

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  Solar wind can form water on interplanetary dust, potentially adding to the primordial soup that gave rise to life on Earth, scientists say. On Earth, … Continue reading

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Does Age Bring Death? Not For All Species

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience By Stephanie Pappas | LiveScience.com Humans have a pretty straightforward view of aging: They’re born, they mature, they gradually become weaker and lose fertility, and eventually, they die. But in nature, … Continue reading

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How to Find Alien Life on Dying Planets

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: SPACE.com By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor  If life does exist anywhere else in the universe, it may only be fleeting. Now scientists are researching how signs of life might look on … Continue reading

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Mammal Evolution Took No Great Leap, Study Suggests

Interesting stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: LiveScience Charles Choi, LiveScience Contributor   After the greatest mass extinction on Earth, mammals apparently evolved not in a great leap forward, but rather in small ways that did not stand out … Continue reading

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Shameless doc’s PR pitch: Gandolfini’s death ‘a wake-up call to guys who snore like freight trains’

I have a friend who snores like a freight train, but when I speak to him about it he hasn’t much to say. In fact, when told he’s overweight, that he doesn’t exercise and that he smokes, it’s more of … Continue reading

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George Carlin – Saving the Planet

Right on… TGO Video: YouTube

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Thai state media: Thai billionaire who created Red Bull energy drink dies at 89

This guy made it big after middle age. I suppose one never knows what surprises lurk in one’s life; whether good or bad… TGO Refer to brief story below. Source: Associated Press By The Associated Press | Associated Press   … Continue reading

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Russian scientist claims signs of life spotted on Venus

Given what we know about Venus, it is very unlikely that life could exist there, at least life  (living organisms) similar to those on Earth. Still, just because the only life form in the universe that we’re aware of is … Continue reading

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Life on Mars? Fossil find shows it’s possible

Thanks to science we continue to learn more and more about the world around us and the universe at large. This is fascinating stuff… TGO Refer to story below. Source: Reuters By Kate Kelland | Reuters LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists … Continue reading

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Victor J. Stenger: “Marooned on Spaceship Earth”

Life has yet to be found anywhere but on Earth. Over a hundred planets beyond our solar system have been identified, with more being found every day. None, so far, is suitable for life as we know it, although this … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn” A Walk Through a Cemetery”

In walking through a country graveyard one sees a prominent granite or marble monument here and there, but more of the stones that mark the resting-places of the dead are modest in appearance, plain and humble. But there are some … Continue reading

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Lemuel K. Washburn: “The Drama of Life”

With the passing of the season we are reminded of the rapid flight of life. It seems but yesterday that the first bluebird of spring lit on the bare bough of the apple-tree in the orchard near by, and the … Continue reading

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Kevorkian’s audacious attitude set him apart

I’ll try and be brief and to the point. In my opinion, each and every individual who is gravely ill and suffering, or simply being kept alive by a respirator or other means, should have the right to decide if … Continue reading

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Patrick Stewart backs right to assisted death

I completely agree with the individual’s right to assisted death. I find this a much more dignified way of dying than being hooked-up to respirators and other “life-saving” or life-support devices. Living in that manner is no way to live, … Continue reading

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Life Found in a Meteorite? Some Scientists Don’t Buy It

I am far more astonished, yes astonished, that certain scientists dispel the notion that there possibly could be life elsewhere in the universe than I am of the contrary. After all, the science of cosmology has proven that there are … Continue reading

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Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens, a brilliant man, talks openly about his life, his current struggles with cancer and his general views on the human social condition. TGO Source: You Tube

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Search for trapped abandoned at NZ office building

It’s really sad to know (and see) that people are suffering this way… These natural disasters remind us of just how fragile our lives are. One moment everything is fine and then instantly, in a matter of seconds, our lives … Continue reading

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