My grandfather was a classy guy. He was brilliant and the most stubborn person I have ever met. He thought he had met his match with me though. My grandfather was my hero when I was a kid. He paid attention to me unlike anyone else. Even though I was 8 and he was several decades older, we would have debates about everything.
This is not something I’ve talked much about with anyone, but here it goes!
Action and reaction are everywhere.
All of us are fortunate.
We live in the best time there has ever been to be alive.
We have access the greatest learning and communication tool the world has ever known, and almost all of us remember when no one had it. The youngest of us are not unlikely to see the day when EVERY person on the planet has access to all of humanity’s learning.
"a fact should be loved for itself alone."
The cold hard truth gets less credit than it deserves.
People like the portions of reality that help them, and make them feel more important, smarter, or please their preconceptions. That is not wrong, but the less fortuitous pieces of reality need love too. Altering the result is best done by embracing all the facts.
Abortion! Pro-choice! Pro-life! Here is something nobody seems to have looked at yet about abortion--so I've decided to tackle it myself. Are you ready?!
Now, if you're not a believer in "the soul" and all that jazz, then this is for your general hypothetical education--not something to seriously consider.
When you love that much, that deeply, I guess you fall twice as hard. When they get back up they live a life twice as large with love and good in a much quieter way. I see this in a lot of addictions.
