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New Year's Resolutions: 'The Show Me' State Of Mind

James M. Lynch | Posted 12.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Lies, Holidays, Holiday Season, Hope, Writing, Self-Confidence, Empty-Promises, Holiday Season Commentary, Enjoying Life, New Year's Commentary, Self-Help, Joy, New Year's Resolutions, New Jersey, Reason, Self-Improvement, Quitting Smoking, Diet Plans, Excuses, Truth, The Balanced Life, Living News
James M. Lynch

Here's my challenge to you: In this coming year let's light this world up with positive energy and a life of joy and possibility. But don't just tell me. Show me.

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Why I Am Not Enlightened

Eliezer Sobel | Posted 12.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Zen, Religion, God, Zen Master, Meditation, Tibet, Buddhism, The Inner Life, Human Nature, Spirituality, Truth, Happiness, Living News
Eliezer Sobel

I finally figured out why I'm not enlightened. Over 30 years ago, when I had just made the proverbial first step on a "journey of a thousand miles" I heard the following well-known tale...

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Journalism Needs a Business Model for the Truth

David Nordfors | Posted 12.07.2009 | Media

Read More: Internet, Hyperlink, Accountability, Business Model, Main Stream Media, Journalism, Truth, Media News
David Nordfors

Journalists committed to the truth can link to important sources, but news organizations have never let that happen. What are the business models for the principles of journalism?

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10 Truths I Wish I'd Known Sooner

realsimple.com | Posted 12.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Retrospective, Growing Up, Aging, Lying, Relationships, Decision-Making, Experience, Looking Back, Independence, The Inner Life, Life, Attitude, Sex, Self-Knowledge, Life Experience, Autonomy, Truth, Living News

Her friends and family tried to guide her. But it was only through years of rich experience that she grasped the realities of life....

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Real Journalism and the Road Ahead

Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted 12.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Public Television, Npr, Propaganda, Reporters, Huffington Post, News, Fact Checking, Journalism, War Correspondents, Truth, Foundations, Old Media vs. New Media, Media Issues, New Media, Media News
Vivian Norris de Montaigu

The first thing you do in a war is control and take out your enemy's communication system. Our news has been taken over by entertainment, propaganda and massive corporations. We need to to take back the media.

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Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth

Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Jose Canseco, Congress, Lying, Performance Enhancing Drugs, Steroids, Capitol Hill, Baseball, Barry Bonds, St. Louis, Roger Clemens, Drugs, Graham Bensinger, Alex Rodriguez, Lie, Mark McGwire, Illegal, Cardinals, Coach, Tony Larussa, Major League Baseball, Sammy Sosa, Tony La Russa, Hitting Coach, Albert Pujols, Truth, Entertainment News
Graham Bensinger

He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.

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We Teach Best What We Most Need to Learn

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Healthy Relationships, Lying, Relationships, Honesty, Health, Mike Robbins, Self-Knowledge, Teaching, Telling the Truth, Happiness, Truth, Living News
Mike Robbins

As I've been making my way through my feelings of remorse, embarrassment, and confusion - I've been thinking a lot about the well-known saying, "We teach best what we most need to learn.

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Positively Stinking Thinking

Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Denial, Newsweek, Obsession, Serene Ambition, Creative Thinking, Positive Thinking, The Secret, Julia Baird, Reality, Jim Selman, Barbara Ehrenreich, Truth, Happiness, Living News
Jim Selman

Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.

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Satellite Imagery Proves Catastrophic Failure of Joint Rwanda/Congo Military Exercises

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Satellite Imagery, Rwanda, Rape, Fdlr, Hrw, Joseph Kabila, Fardc, Kimia II, Huffington Post, Umoja Wetu, Truth, American Association of the Advancement of Science, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burning, Cndp, Africom, Hillary Clinton, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Reported have said that joint military operations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been a catastrophic failure. Now satellite imagery of the Busurungi area in North Kivu clearly shows burned villages.

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Confronting Ahmadinejad and Other Liars

Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Michele Bachmann, Rush Limbaugh, Frank Gaffney, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Bishop Richard Williamson, Holocaust Denial, Truth, World News
Menachem Rosensaft

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not the only one intent on twisting, distorting and ignoring the truth. In America, there are those on the far right who impugn the truth as well.

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American In Worldland: Have-It-Your-Way Truth

Mort Rosenblum | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Associated Press, Obama, Hannah Arendt, Media, Al Jazeera, Press, Truth, Afghanistan War, Foreign Policy, Torture, World News
Mort Rosenblum

Our blindness is voluntary. In an overheating world, literally and figuratively, complacent citizens shape whatever reality suits them best.

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"It Is What It Is" Is the Only Truth, the Rest is Interpretation

Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Reality, Nonduality, Judgement, Idealism, Perception, Perfectionism, Epistemology, Tautology, Truth, Living News
Pavel Somov, Ph.D.

When you and I look at one and the same object of reality, say a hat, and you think it is great looking and I think it's heinous, the only thing that both of us can agree on is that "it is what it is."

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What's Wrong With This Statement?

Candy Spelling | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Town Hall Meetings, Linguistics, Talking Points, Health Care Legislation, Bully Pulpit, Truth, Politics, Living News
Candy Spelling

George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor: "The Democrats still believe in Enlightenment reason: If you just tell people the truth, they will come to the right conclusion."

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Writing and Yoga

Jen Grisanti | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living

Read More: Yoga, The Balanced Life, Inspiration, Routine, Writing, Motivation, Spirituality, Screenwriting, Truth, Living News
Jen Grisanti

Clarity is an important ingredient in feeling free to express yourself.

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Bipartisan Inclusiveness: Time to Stop Being Polite

Jim Selman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Cynicism, Bob Cesca, Bipartisan, President Obama, Republicans, Elderly, Elderly Voters, Obama Administration, Truth, Politics News
Jim Selman

When the nutters want to both destroy civil discourse and undermine the democratic process in some cynical financially motivated power grab, then we must call it what it is: bullshit.

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Have You Been Silenced?

Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Anger, Fear, Positive Thinking, Clear Communication, Love Response, Voice, Clarity, Speaking Up, Stress Reduction, Communication, Truth, Living News
Eva M. Selhub, M.D.

In some form, at some time, we have all been silenced. We all have felt that our voice had no value, that we were invisible.

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Face The Inquisition

Dean Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Network, Goebbels, Heresy, Hitler, Torquemada, Radio, War, Inquisition, Drug, Truth, Politics News
Dean Becker

Today's "compassionate" drug warriors have fractured the futures and pulverized the possibilities of more than 37,000,000 US citizens.

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Finding The Language Of Art

Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Psychology, Art, Feminism, Truth, Living News
Susan Smalley, Ph.D.

I am beginning a new voyage into unknown territory - the worldly dimension of Art. I feel as though I was handed a flashlight in a dark room and beckoned to begin to explore.

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Writing Your Truth

Jen Grisanti | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Change, Writing, Self-Worth, Freedom of Expression, Climate Change, Integrity, Truth, Screenwriting, Living News
Jen Grisanti

Writing is a special and essential tool available to everyone that provides a cathartic opportunity to reflect on life, its evolutions, and our perspectives on it.

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Who Are the Drug Lords?

Dean Becker | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Grim, Ryan, Law Enforcement, Drug, Prohibition, Truth, War, Politics News
Dean Becker

The real kingpins are bankers, pharmaceutical house CEOs, weapons manufacturers and a thousand other corporate interests whose gross profits depend on violence, hatred, distrust and deception.

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Simon Cowell: A True Friend

James M. Lynch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Liars, Friendship, Simon Cowell, Lies, Lying, Friends, Workplace, Honesty, Feedback, Gordon Ramsay, American Idol, Workplace Taboos, Truth, Culture, Entertainment News
James M. Lynch

A true friend is one who will tell you the truth whether or not you want to hear it, whether it might endanger the status quo of the friendship or not.

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Why Do We Lie?

realsimple.com | Jenna Mccarthy | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Lying, Relationships, Family, Truth, Living News

Nearly any adult will tell you that lying is wrong. But when it comes to avoiding trouble, saving face in front of the boss, or sparing someone's feel...

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Medvedev Imposes Control Over Russian History

Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: 1984, Russia, History, Censorship, Russian Politics, Truth, World News
Oleg Kozlovsky

Since "falsification of history" is a very vague definition, their field of work is only limited by their own fantasy.

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The Truth About Miss USA, American Idol -- and Our Embrace of Illusion

Wes Isley | Posted 06.05.2009 | Style

Read More: Politics, Miss USA, Matthew Shepard, American Idol, Gay Marriage, Virginia Foxx, Truth, Culture, Carrie Prejean, Style News
Wes Isley

Television shows and beauty pageants are rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but they reflect broad, underlying trends back to us.

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What Ever Happened to Truth?

Carter Phipps | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living

Read More: Carter Phipps, Holocaust Revisionism, Iran, Intelligent Design, Objective Truth, Postmodernism, Truth, Living News
Carter Phipps

As a culture, we must begin to recognize that while truth and objectivity may not be absolutes that exist perfectly free of time and history, neither are they hopelessly embedded in personal perspectives.

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