Category Archives: Informative
Color Matters…
Imagine this scenario will you. A girl comes home and opening the door for her is an anxious, waiting mother. As the girl steps in, the mother, obviously impatient, bombards her daughter with rampant questions. “Tell me, what happened? How did it go? Did it go alright?” The daughter, as she slowly and glumly takes off her coat, gives her mother a cheerless puppy look -lower lip flipped- and explains: “Mom…he gave me a flower.” Almost instantly, a gigantic smile begins to stretch across the mother’s face to take up at least three quarters of it while her arms, in … [read more]
Strip us of our values; literally…
Alright so the new body scanners have come out and officials have stated that, yes, as it has been claimed, these new body scanners will be placed in airports to scan travelers’ bodies as they move in and out of airports. And yes, they continue to say, these body scanners will, as claimed, be showing those who step into the scanner in, pretty-much, a nude manner. And why are they using these scanners? Bottom-line, they say: for protection. Against what? Oh get real, I’m not answering that. So… I’m all with protection. Heck, employ even more rigid standards of protection, … [read more]
The History of Love
What’s that thing called again? Ah… love! While it not may be what makes the world go round, it sure is what makes the ride all the more enjoyable. That is perhaps the main reason why billions of people throughout the centuries have seen it fit to dedicate an entire day to love, a day in which men and women in love compliment each other with grand gestures of romance. That day, as we have come to know it, is none other than Valentines Day. For all its popularity, history fails to give us any assurance as to the origins … [read more]
What is the difference between B.C., A.D., B.C.E., and C.E.?
What is the difference between B.C., A.D., B.C.E., and C.E.? B.C., which stands for “Before Christ,” is used to date events before the birth of Jesus. A.D. is the abbreviation for the Latin phrase anno Domini, which means “in the year of our Lord,” and is used for dates after Jesus’s birth. This system of dating has been used for many years by Western archaeologists. Today, however, with a growing understanding that not all archaeologists are Christians, some archaeologists prefer to use the terms: Before the Common Era (B.C.E.) and the Common Era (C.E.), which are exactly the same as … [read more]
