Thoughts and News

Turn Off Your TV for a Month

Posted in Thoughts and News on Feb 24th, 2009

The number of thoughts and mental images we process is tremendous. Most of those images are digital content — whether it be TV, computer screens or MP3 audio. Consider the amount of content that goes into our minds on a constant basis.

The magnitude of content is much larger than it was a few decades ago – and even larger than it was just last decade.

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Get to Know Your Ethics and Morals

Posted in Thoughts and News on Sep 9th, 2008

There are three main schools of thought when it comes to the ethics that are applied on an individual and collective level. Most people believe in one of these theories of ethics. Even if we do not make a conscious decision to follow one of these schools of thought our actions still reflect one of them.

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Gender Roles vs Equal Rights

Posted in Thoughts and News on Jun 3rd, 2008

Defending our roles gives us the right to be a certain person and to act how we like. Through various historical periods the role of being a man in social structures was dominated through an image of power, strength, and superiority. But this was the image that the role projected, and not the role itself. You might be thinking that these are one and the same. However there is a difference between roles and the social implications roles hold – and understanding this difference is fundamental to both our personal freedom and self-expression.

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