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To The Best of Our Knowledge is interviewing Steven Spiro, a Buddhist Chaplain, on mindful dying. He has five things to say at the end of life.
Not bad things to say at any point of life.
Overheard at a party.
First young man says, “I am friends with Joe So-and-so.”
Second young man asks, “Real friends or Facebook friends?”
yeah I know you did not ask!
I wonder what it would be like to live a life that was not scored in minor chords.
yeah I know you did not ask!
Is using a mulching lawn mower forcing your lawn to engage in cannibalism?
This is a very NON-PARTISAN explanation of the Affordable Care Act aka ObamaCare. It strikes me that a large number of folks are opposed to ObamaCare and actually have little or no understanding of what it really is.
One issue I hear a lot is that folks are afraid that they will be taxed to subsidize freeloaders. IMHO this is happening already in two ways. The first would be excessive corporate profits. There is a reason insurance executives can be paid those huge salaries and bonuses. Secondly, when poor folks have no other health care option but to show up at an emergency room we are taxed for by the cost be shifted into other arenas of the hospital and passed on to paying patients.
Health resources are limited which means they need to be triaged. The question becomes do you want the government triaging your health care or a for profit corporation. Seniors seem to love the governments Medicare program. Native Americans seem to find Indian Health Care more than acceptable. My personal issue with ObamaCare is that is leaves too much in the private sector, but I realize it was probably the best that could be done at the time.
At least invest the 15 minutes or so in a very well done video before you absolutely decide one way or the other about ObamaCare. Far too many of us many political decisions along partisan lines without all the information. Far too many of our politicians do not speak to the issue, but work on our fears. Educating yourself is at least a start in the right direction.
…yeah I know you did not ask!
I find it somewhat ironic that two of most listened to commentators on the American political scene are two comedians, Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. Too bad more folks do not adhere to their point of view.
Humanity Will Always Live in Chaos as Long as Organized Religion Persists
He absolutely read my mind:
“Organized religion is the worst thing that’s ever happened to human kind.
All organized religion does is provide a tool for those in power to manipulate millions to act against their own self interests. Which is exactly what you see in Christianity and Islam. People in power, using religion, to get people to act like absolute fools. People living their lives under the control of religious rules that are derived by some human’s interpretation of something they read in a book.”
I do not have a problem with faith, just how it has be kidnapped by the power structure. I perfectly okay if you want to dance naked around a 10 foot statue of G.I. Joe. But please to not hand me a glass of your Kool-Ade or force me to dance.