Benchmarks

We cannot make sense of anything, including our lives, unless we establish a base line of where we came from, to where we are at, and to where we are headed and why. Then we can transform the world and ourselves, making head way as we improve.

Hank Aaron

In an interview recently, this baseball great commented that records are made to be broken. What a realistic, non-jealous and upbeat attitude to share with the world. This perspective is one that should be held by all actual or aspiring individuators. All established records by others and themselves likely, sooner or later, with be broken. That is as it should be, and all strivers should favor such progress, even breaking a few records personally during their short life times.

Is God A Mavellonialist?

If God does exist, he does and I believe he does, then he is a Mavellonialist.

Guaranteed

Satisfaction was never a guarantee and as Grandpa Laurence used to say, there is no such thing as being secure.

Morality

Morality is not a garment that we can wear or discard on a whim. It is not an ethical code to live by when following its dictates makes us popular, successful or enriched financially. Morality is the integrated set of principles that we live by, to the best of our ability, 24/7, every day of our lives, as long as we live.

Moderation And One's Political Outlook

I am a conservative, but that is not all that I am politically. How the philosophy of moderation works and influences this political worldview is that conservativism should be the predominant political stance that one espouses. But political truth is not found solely in--nor it is confined purely or absolutely in this right wing location. Other, conflicting political outlooks of less relative worth and merit still inform us and possess some merit nonetheless. Therefore, to function as a mature and sophisticated political thinker, left wing considerations need to be econcompassed and worked in, but these secondary considerations are seedlings that must be trained and pruned as they sprout from the ground of conservativism.

Only Human

I guess if we were perfect, we then would not be human. In the negative sense, to be a perfect being is to somehow be inhuman. In the positive sense, to be a perfect being is to be superhuman, a divine being. Of course, this has little to do with our mission to self-realize, to customize our life-long goal of self-perfecting and ever learning.We will never reach the goal but that was never the aim in the first place.