Hold on

You don't want to let go of your ego,
like a little girl who don't want to let go of her security blanket.

The future

Five hundred years ago, no one knew
that the earth rotates around the sun.
Four hundred years ago, no one knew
that bacteria and viruses could cause diseases.
Two hundred years ago, no one had heard about
genes and DNA molecules.

Five hundred years from now, maybe people will understand things
that are totally incomprehensible for us today.
Maybe they will find a doors to other dimensions.
Maybe they will understand how to live in peace with one another.
Who knows what they will arrive at?
If not humanity have died out before then.

Acquisitive disorder

All people like good food.

However, a good appetite can also turn into a disorder, an obsession.

Many people are eating themselves to death. They need help.

The desire for power and money is also quite normal.

Nobody wants to feel powerless and poor.

But the pursuit of power and money

can also turn into an obsession, a disorder.

Words of wisdom

Do not despise lies and self-deceptions.

Without them, many people would have nothing to live for.

Which one of them is you?

One part of my mind wants to lose weight and stop drinking, another part wants to eat, drink and be merry. A third part is jealous and a fourth part is critical and judgmental. A fifth part is like a cultivated therapist, with a pearl necklace, that is trying to explain to the other parts, with a soft voice, that they must be more sensible. An additional part observes all these contradictory parts and tries to figure out how to deal with them. None of these parts is my true self. There is no true, delimited self in the mind, I believe. To search for a true, authentic, delimited self is like searching for the Easter Bunny.

The main issue

How is it that Hitler became so vicious?
He was also a cute little kid when he was little.
Did he catch syphilis, was he possessed by an evil spirit, was he insane?
Does it matter, really?
Isn't the main issue why so many people began to worship him?
How do you explain that?

http://www.nobeliefs.com/hitler.htm

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/74776.php

Did Jesus exist?

I have changed my mind. I nowadays believe that Jesus really existed, that he was not just a mythological figure. He was convinced that God very soon would overthrow the forces of evil and establish a new kingdom here on earth where there would be no more misery and injustice. These were the good news he was preaching. He was a Jewish apocalypticist. (“Truly I tell you, some of you standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come in power. Mark 9:1.”)

However, he was wrong. The evil forces crucified him and three hundred years later, they even began to use his name for their new religion. In 312, the Roman Emperor Constantine became a "Christian" after he had won a military victory. Ever since then have incredibly evil emperors, kings, dictators, presidents, warmongers and ordinary soldiers been professing Christians. And the Christian clergy have endorsed them and prayed for them. The evil forces have rejoiced in nearly two thousand years now.

                                 
http://ehrmanblog.org/did-jesus-exist-as-part-one/

http://www.amazon.com/Did-Jesus-Exist-Historical-Argument/dp/0062206443

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypticism