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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Want To Be Happy? Eat Ice Cream!

Read these and judge for yourselves: A new research on the relationship of eating ice cream and "neural" happiness A personal testimony Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 16, 2005

Santo Subito: A Pre-Conclave Sidelight

During the funeral mass for the Pope, the crowd shouted "Santo Subito!" which roughly means "(Proclaim him) a Saint immediately!" Corriere de la Serra narrates how during today's pre-conclave meeting, one of the concerns of the cardinals was what to do with the acclamations during the mass. The dean... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, April 2, 2005

An Email: A Heterosexual With Gay Fantasies

I received the following email today: I am beginning to wonder about my sexual preferences. I have a girl friend with whom I have been having quite a "hot" relationship. However, I sometimes catch myself occassionally fantasizing about other males. Apart from that, whenever I masturbate, I sometimes... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, March 10, 2005

Where Has Philosophy Gone

I intended this blog site for philosophy. To be specific, for a series of blogs on the question of happiness. But there has been more links here than philosophy in the past few months for the simple reason that I haven't really been reading for a long time now. My exercises in philosophy has been... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, March 8, 2005

Prosperity With A Purpose

Link: - Prosperity With A Purpose. John Paul II stated in his social encyclical Centesimus Annus in 1991: “On the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilising resources and effectively responding to needs … the Church... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, March 5, 2005

The US On Abortion: Any Comments?

US Draws Jeers for Abortion Comments at UN By Deborah Zabarenko UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Jeers and catcalls greeted the top U.S. delegate to a global women's conference on Friday as she stressed Washington's opposition to abortion and support for sexual abstinence and fidelity. After withdrawing... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, February 26, 2005

Better Than The Cure

Happiness protects from the common cold. More from BBC issue of 2003 Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 24, 2005

Built For Happiness That Will Not Last?

I was browsing through Time's archives and found this article entitled "Dancing to Evolution's Tune -- The good news: we're born for fun. The bad news: it's not built to last". Here is a snip of the article: The general principle: genes that dish out pleasure in ways that have helped propel them... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, February 3, 2005

How Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Escaped The Index

A lot of Catholics don't realize this, but there was a time when the Church reviewed books and decided which a Catholic can read with no danger to faith and morals or not. Books judged to be dangerous to faith and morals were put in an index called the Index of Forbidden Books. Ms. Amy Welborn blogs... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Contraception: My Take

Following are my answers to a survey on artificial contraception. While the Department Of Health is reported to have toned down its guidelines regarding contraception (actually departing, it seems, from Flavier’s program), the issue remains because of the so-called “overpopulation problem of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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