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Your Purpose in Life

posted by Stevie B on April 17th, 2008

Without a purpose in life, people live life aimlessly, feel blah and wonder why they are here.  However, with a purpose in life, people can begin to achieve passion and begin to see elements of happiness their life. The intention of this article is to provide you direction on what your true purpose in life is and how you can begin to figure it out. To begin to understand our purpose in life, lets first start by looking at the purpose of an object’s life, or more specifically, a pen’s life.

A pen’s life can be somewhat boring from ...Continue reading

The Best Way To Learn and Remember

posted by Stevie B on April 17th, 2008

There are a tons of different ways to learn new skills and new tasks. People stay up and memorize books, finish tests, write essays, take practice tests, listen to people talk and some people just learn by doing. Given all of these different ways to learn a new skill, what is the optimal way to learn so that you can learn new skills faster. To answer this question, lets look at how we think so that we can figure out if this thought process will give us some clues as to how to learn and how to ...Continue reading

How To Create Peace and Reduce Conflict

posted by Stevie B on April 16th, 2008

How do we create peace in a world that sometimes focuses on conflict, which is the source of pain? If conflict is the source of pain, why do we continue to cause pain and grief towards another? People want to be happy and not angry or sad, so why haven’t we stopped creating conflict and start creating peace and happiness? These are the questions that we’ll begin to ponder in this article.

To answer this question, lets think back to when you are a kid and you couldn’t speak. At that moment, every thought that comes ...Continue reading

Live a Longer and Happier Life

posted by Stevie B on April 16th, 2008

Can people live longer? What is the magical formula to stay young, look young, feel great, increase your longevity and slow your aging? Some say it is a magical cream or a magical pill that will solve your aging problem. In order to understand aging, you need to understand what living actually means. Is an object alive? If not, then what is the difference between an object and a living being? If we understand that difference, then we will understand what it means to live. If we understand what it means to live, then we will know what factors ...Continue reading

Justice: The Real Way To Fight Back

posted by Stevie B on February 2nd, 2008

Talk to some people and they believe justice is force and punishment, but talk to others and they’ll say non-violence is the way. So who is right and how can we know what to do when an injustice takes place? How do we know if it is unjust? What should the justice system do to protect others from being objectified? Can we find a way to figure out what justice is and its purpose in our lives? Given what we now know about negative emotions, lets use this information to find out what justice is and ...Continue reading

Love: What is it?

posted by Stevie B on January 29th, 2008

To begin to answer this question, lets start by observing the feeling of love toward your parents and compare that love toward a friend you barely interact with. If you don’t love your parents, then find the feeling of love with someone you do love and adjust this example accordingly.

Looking at your parents, why do you love them? You can say they created you, made you who you are today, they cared for you in times of need, they were happy with you in times of bliss and they changed their own lives to help you become who you ...Continue reading

Money: What is Money?

posted by Stevie B on January 28th, 2008

Think of all the amazing things you can do with billions of dollars accessible to you at any time. The dream house, the dream car, the dream vacation or the dream anything all of a sudden stops becoming a dream and turns into reality once you have money. One can also blame money for all of the hardships in one’s life and for all the hardships in the world today. So what is the very idea of money that holds such a large portion of our emotional well being? What is this thing called money, why ...Continue reading

Why do we think in our native language?

posted by Stevie B on December 30th, 2007

I do quite a bit of thinking on a day to day basis and I just realized that I ALWAYS think in English. I found this to be quite odd actually because I am always able to stop the words in my head half way through a thought, but I still know what that thought was. For instance, if I said to myself “I really want a peanut butter jelly sandwich” I can stop the translation of that thought at “I really want…” and still get a peanut butter jelly sandwich. So why then do I ...Continue reading

How You Get What You Want In Life | Quiz

posted by Stevie B on December 30th, 2007


Money, Fame, Power, Love, and Happiness are but a few things that some people have and some people do not. For those that have it, some of those people earned what they got and other people gave it to them. Even other people say that luck is the reason why people get what they want, but if it was just luck, then how can someone be consistently lucky unless they actually do something to influence their outcome. So then how is it that some people can get what they want and others cannot? To find out ...Continue reading

Why do I Feel Bad? | Quiz

posted by Stevie B on December 30th, 2007

Depressed Girl
Depression, Anxiety, Sadness, and Jealousy are all but a few of the many possible negative emotions you have and for some people, these emotions run people’s lives. People come to believe that they are their bad emotion (“I’m just really sad and depressed”) or that they should act because they have a bad emotion (“You made me upset so that means I should get you back”), but the idea of a bad emotion and why we have them has never been explored. So click on the link below to take the quiz and examine why we feel bad. ...Continue reading

 

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