He’s right
Author: Warren Tang
I write about linguistics and philosophy. I also write poetry and take photographs.
8:15am, 6 August 1945.
Sixty-seven years ago the world lost something. We continue to hope for a world without nuclear weapons.
No Nukes 2012 – Kraftwerk in Tokyo, 7 July.
Longevity and Wellbeing
It continues to baffle me why so much emphasis is put on a long life.
Japan’s life expectancy fell to second place behind Hong Kong. The above BBC linked article is typical of this rhetoric.
Words and phrases like “fallen behind” and “topped the rankings” make longevity out as some kind of race and the those living longest are runners.
Are OCTOGENARIANS LONG DISTANCES ATHLETES?
Is this also why Westerners love to run, because they feel they will live longer by doing so?
Living longer does not make you happier. There are plenty of people who live to a ripe old age but miserably. Equally there are others who live shorter lives but happily.
The previous Dalai Lama quote should remind you of where you will find happiness, and it isn’t in a long life.
The surprise of Man …
From wood to plastic – new technologies
This morning’s NHK News featured a story on the opening of a factory which can produce plastic from wood (in Japanese) bypassing the need to use petroleum, the usual resource for its production.
This could be the start of the decline of our reliance on oil but it is still early days yet. The production is labour intensive and costly for now but it is a start.
World Population Day
Today is World Population Day.
Theme this year is Universal Access to Reproductive Health Services and it is part of the Millenium Development Goals for 2015.
Ancient fuel
Friend: So, did you read the story about moss surviving on poo from 8,000 years ago?
Me: That’s nothing. Man has been surviving on dead things that’s 650 million years old!
The rich and the poor
Adam Phillips on happiness, pain, satisfaction, and attainable ideals
What Adam Phillips, a psychotherapist and writer, says in this interview is, in my opinion, excellent and very close to Buddhist thinking.
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