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Is it not sad that so many people are truly lonely?

I do not mean alone – just lonely.

We missed the point – and created “falling in love” as a way to romanticise lust. A way that would lead to permanent partnership and the end to loneliness (so we thought). Now we’re more lonely than before. Being “in love” and all it’s troubles has become a preoccupation. It consumes us.

In that case would it not be safer and more rewarding to make peace with loneliness? Is loneliness not the inability to amuse ourselves? It might be a goal to eradicate loneliness in one's life by starting to talk to ourselves.

'The saintly smile of Mother Teresa masked a bottomless sadness she could share only with her closest friends'

She wrote: "I am told God lives in me, and yet the reality of darkness and coldness and emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. I want God with all the power of my soul - and yet between us there is terrible separation. Heaven from every side is closed. I feel just the terrible pain of loss, of God not wanting me, of God not being God, of God not really existing."

- Mother Teresa was beatified in the Vatican on Sunday the 19th October 2003 -

I have pity for this woman and I am angry at the church for destroying her life.
What is wrong with the truth? Why can't we just take up responsibilities for our own lives?

Love and be true to yourself as truth lies within each one of us and nowhere else.
-harlequin-

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Why do kids have to rebel?

This lady phoned the radio station yesterday, saying that she was listening to 'System of a Down' the other day. (Now 'System of a down' is a fairly heavy band.) Her son, one of eight kids, came screaming into the kitchen saying: "How am I suppose to rebel if you listen to that?" ..... go figure.

Why would there be swastika's on the floor of a church? This photo was taken in a church Cobh, Ireland

The swastika is an equilateral cross with arms bent at right angles, all in the same direction, usually the right, or clockwise. The swastika is a symbol of prosperity and good fortune and is widely dispersed in both the ancient and modern world. It originally represented the revolving sun, fire, or life. The word swastika is derived from the Sanskrit swastika which means, "conducive to well- being". The swastika was widely utilized in ancient Mesopotamian coinage as well as appearing in early Christian and Byzantium art, where it was known as the gammadion cross. The swastika also appeared in South and Central America, widely used in Mayan art during that time period.

In North America, the swastika was a symbol used by the Navajos. The swastika still continues today to be an extensively used sign in Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism. In Buddhism, a swastika represents resignation. In Jainism, it delineates their seventh saint, and the four arms are also used to remind the worshiper of the four possible places of rebirth; the animal or plant world, in Hell, on Earth, or in the spirit world. To Hindus, the swastika with the arms bent to the left is called the sathio or sauvastika, which symbolizes night, magic, purity, and the destructive goddess Kali. In both Hinduism and Jainism, the swastika or sathio is used to mark the opening pages or their account books, thresholds, doors, and offerings.

The swastika was a symbol for the Aryan people, a name which, in Sanskrit means "noble". The Aryans were a group of people who settled in Iran and Northern India. They believed themselves to be a pure race, superior to the other surrounding cultures. When the Germans looked for a symbol, they looked for a symbol which represented the purity which they believed they contained. The Nazis regarded themselves as "Aryans" and tried to steal the accomplishments of these pre-historic people.

In Nazi Germany, the swastika with its arms turned clockwise became the national symbol. In 1910, a poet and nationalist Guido von List suggested that the swastika as a symbol for all anti-Semitic organizations. When the National Socialist Party was formed in 1919, it adopted the ancient symbol, the swastika, giving it the worst meaning possible, destroying the good symbolism which the swastika had held for thousands of years prior.

In 1935, the black swastika on a white circle with a crimson background became the national symbol of Germany. The major difference between the Nazi swastika and the ancient symbol of many different cultures, is that the Nazi swastika is at a slant, while the ancient swastika is rested flat.

The swastika symbolizes so much more than what the Nazis planned. The swastika existed as a symbol of good fortune thousands of years before the Nazis even existed. The symbol is to many cultures an important one, representing their history and beliefs. The Nazis, by taking the swastika, annihilated the significance of the ancient symbol.

Today, the swastika is to most people a symbol of evil, a symbol of demise, and a symbol of ruination. It is extremely depressing to find that although the swastika is a symbol of life, and symbol of joy, it has been made a symbol of evil, something the people of the ancient world never intended it to be.

Why do certain webmasters disable the right-click of the mouse on their websites?

To protect their work from being copied or they just like running fancy scripts on their page.

You don't realise just how much you use right-click until you can't use it! There are a lot of useful features in the short menu that it opens up. While most are also available in the main browser menu, it's often much quicker to use the right-click menu -- this is usually the closest menu you have available

If you think disabling right-click will protect your source code or images, think again! Anyone who's determined to copy your content or code will do so regardless of his or her ability to bring up a browser context menu. If they want your source code then it's as simple as selecting 'view source' from the main menu. Article text can be highlighted and copied, images and media presentations can be retrieved from the cache, and streaming media can be recorded

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