Warning: we have approached that time of year when it is impossible to enter any store without being hit squarely in the face with a multitude of hearts everywhere, forewarning the upcoming holiday of “Show Me How Much You Love Me.”

Can we celebrate Christmas because it’s Jesus’s birthday and not because the shopping malls tell us to celebrate it?

Václav Havel, President of the Czech Republic, poet and philosopher is no God botherer, but he made some insightful points about modern society in a speech denouncing our materialistic society…

The slippery slope of the "bling".

The words ‘History’ and ‘Purana’ appear to have the same meaning but there are differences between the two. History is study of the events which have happened in the past, the past events of a nation which are related to its civilization, political administration, invasion, etc.

According to advertising critic, Kalle Lasn, the United States is just a country full of “marketing targets or demographics,” people who are no longer considered to be citizens, even by their very selves. His article points out to readers that they are in fact members of a cult, whether they know it and admit it, or choose not to acknowledge the truth, forever in denial.

This is a question that has occupied the minds of many seekers throughout human history. There are almost as many different answers, as there are those who have seriously asked it.

Humans are aware of compassion, sympathy and filial piety, but sad to say when it comes to priorities, self interest and materialism overrides all thoughts related to these values.

When we look at old images of black slaves, particularly in the United States, we often see them in chains. Ironically when we look at pictures of blacks today, again particularly in the United States we still see them in chains.

Materialism: Materialists see that there is no difference between the mind and the body and the person and the body. We feel as though the body is a part of ourselves, so how could they be different? It sees to describe the mind as a physical object that can be affected say by vitamins that change our mood etc. Materialists argue that if it were not physical, how this could be possible.

The other side of argument sees to it that some people believe that the mind is different in some way to the body. This is dualism.