When we’re young, time seems to creep at a petty pace, but the passage of time accelerates as it goes by. When I was young, I had the sense that a week was a long time, and summer vacations lasted for ever. Now, days and weeks gallop by, and even months pass quickly. When I first read Andrew Marvell’s plea To His Coy Mistress, I didn’t fully understand his impatience. At this point, even without a mistress, I can hear Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near. When I was young, I wanted time to pass quickly so that I could grow . . . → Read More: March of Time
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 Comments are closed  Blog  after death, afterlife, birth and death, calendars, deal with the devil, Einstein, Faust, Goethe, hardest words of tongue or pen, history, it might have been, knowing and believing, life after death, march of time, Martin Luther, petty pace, prelife, reincarnation, rise and fall of the tide, saddest words of tongue or pen, science, scientists, seasons, Sigmund Freud, sin boldly, stopping time, the Devil, the less you fear, the more you know, time, time and tide, time flies, tomorrow If you watch any commercial television, you have surely noticed how much of the advertising is for prescription drugs If you think that the advertising for prescription medication has increased over the past few years, you’re correct. Such advertising is legal in only four countries, with the U.S. being one of the four. Marketing of pharmaceutical products has been “big business” for a long time, of course. Companies making such products trained an army of sales representatives to take samples around to physicians and others responsible for writing the prescriptions. They also initiated a major lobbying effort to persuade . . . → Read More: Ask Your Doctor…. Comments are closed Blog big business, blood and soil, cats, choice points, Civil Rights, commercials, Confederate States, congress, consumers, corporate equivalent, disability, dogs, fast forward, fear-based politics, fossil fuels, Germany, global climate change, Hitler, knowing our present, mark territory, minorities, minority, newspapers, newsweeklies, pharmaceuticals, Pogo, prescription medications, science, scientific method, scientists, self-interest, short-term gains, slavery, something new, television, the less you fear, the more you learn, the States, tribe, vote, Walt Kelly In NLP, one of the central Metamodel questions is, “How do you know?” An honest answer to the question provides information about a person’s “model of the world,” which is essentially a “reality strategy”—the way people decide what’s real. In most cases, what we think of as “real” is more accurately a “belief,” in some cases with very little in the way of supporting evidence. Most beliefs begin, of course, with some evidence in the external environment. Through the natural processes of deletion, distortion, and generalization, beliefs that have a logical beginning can become increasingly distorted over time. One of . . . → Read More: Evidence Procedures Comments are closed Blog Africa, Amish, behavior, belief, belief systems, beliefs, Bible, breasts, cancer, cancerous, change, Christian, climate change, Copernicus, disasters, drought, economic policy, economics, Europe, evidence, evidence procedure, evolution, false positives, flood, floods, follow the money, food, fossil fuels, fuel, Galileo, geophysical, global warming, government, Greece, health care, history, hockey stick, human activity, human influence, interconnection, long-term, mammography, metamodel, Mideast, perspective, prosperity, PSA, PSA test, public education, public schools, real, reality, regulation, relief, Richard Bandler, risk, scarcity, science, scientists, short-term, Spain, strategy, survival, tax policy, technology, the world, thermography, time, U.S., X-ray |
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