Ukrainian citizen volunteers take up arms to fight Russian invasion – BBC News

Love, even passionate love, may be missing something. There may be something that is beyond even the most passionate of love experiences. A subliminal mastery, absolute meaning, that love only BEGINS to approach, is possible for those who dare!

Observing the dramatic advances in our technological products over the past decade, and noticing the under-30 crowd virtually tethered to their devices, begs the question of where we are headed as a species. For a while technology may serve us in valuable and important ways, if we lose our connection to Nature and our ability to relate to each other as a result of living in a ‘virtual’ world, we will have lost the best part of being human-and an opportunity to develop into a more evolved species.

Is American society raising mature, fully grown adults or nurturing overgrown babies to lead the future of our country? Young people are disrespected and underestimated. They are ghosts among older generations and must fight to be heard if any of them are going to make a difference.

Since time immemorial, women have attempted to support, restrain, and shape their bosoms. Cloth wrapping and rib mounted under support were the standard for centuries. However, there were many women who simply couldn’t bear the discomfort, and a few of them actually did something about it.

This article looks at the cultural practices of the Meru people of Kenya. It specifically focuses on the preparations made by boys before initiation to adulthood through circumcision.

Human societies do best when there is a proper number of males to females. When there are too many males, and they are all of ages between 16 and 35 there is a greater chance for Civil War, major disruptions, or even a country choosing to go to war. Civilizations have always wondered and had a challenge as to what to do with their huge male populations.

Did you feel a little troubled when Americans celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden? Was it unsettling to be compared to the radical Muslims who celebrated the death of thousands when the Twin Towers fell? One celebration is justified, the other is not.

Financial planning, like most disciplines, generally relies on the assumption that the dead will remain that way. Some people, however, are not as willing to accept this premise.

Nazi crimes are widely known. But this is not true about crimes committed by communists in their own country. Do they know, for instance, that the number of lives lost in one region of the Soviet Gulag, Kolyma, was comparable to the number of those wasted in Hitler’s Auschwitz? How do Germans and Russians deal with tragic periods of their history?

Soviet Communists, members of the Bolshevik party, created a new kind of “morality.” That was done to facilitate activities which most of us would consider immoral. What is useful to us is moral; what conflicts with our revolutionary plans is immoral, they proclaimed.

Mass killings of civilians have happened and continue all over the world. Can they be avoided? Why not? How to accomplish this?

Jim Crow laws that kept Blacks subservient to Whites were in place in the Southern United States for almost 100 years! How could that happen in America?