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Comentario de Jennifer Hodgdon en Más sobre la Pobreza y la Economía

Jennifer Hodgdon — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:17:29 +0000

Yes… The problem of poverty is world-wide, and probably the general solutions that I wrote about would apply anywhere. Many of the countries in Europe adopted them years ago, and they have much less of a problem with poverty than we do in the US…
–Jennifer

Comentario de nyasha frank mpahlo en Más sobre la Pobreza y la Economía

nyasha frank mpahlo — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:28:14 +0000

great article jennifer, i understand your article has the background of USA but i think that it has a great relativity to African economies, especially with regards to my country, Zimbabwe.

Comentario de Jennifer Hodgdon en Sentido en la Vida

Jennifer Hodgdon — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:16:45 +0000

And another point I think I didn’t stress in my post: It’s only dignity during unavoidable suffering that gives life meaning. If you suffer needlessly, according to Frankl anyway, it doesn’t make your life meaningful.
–Jennifer

Comentario de ted ford en Sentido en la Vida

ted ford — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 03:00:02 +0000

One important aspect of Frankl’s suffering is that he survived the concentration camp…and he was able to share his story. I think that suffering is inevitable. the nobility and dignity of sufferring is a function of the story that the survivor gets to tell. the story and the example of Frankl makes his life meaningful. there are countless examples of people who suffer and then die and no one knows about it. Meaning, in part, comes from the recognition and the sharing and the learning that others can have from the suffering of the victim. My message is that we must share and communicate our stories. A good story is the primary characteristic of a life well lived and full of meaning. A meaningful life is a good story. My story is that I was a tech guy, i went to medical school, and now I take care of people with chronic pain conditions. Even my hardest days are fullfilling.

Comentario de Jacqueline Johns - Your Happy Life Mentor en Sentido en la Vida

Jacqueline Johns - Your Happy Life Mentor — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 02:07:03 +0000

I love that you have a list of happiness-inducing activities to focus on!

I also love that you condensed the ideas of three books into simple themes to enable those who haven’t read them to still learn and take advantage of their wisdom.

Keep up the great work and the personal work you are doing to enable you to be the best you can be.

Live Life Happy!

Comentario de mariela en Inmigración Ilegal en los EEUU

mariela — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:22:30 +0000

I don’t understand why the people in USA are so selfish, illegal people need help. if you can’t see the situation that they live your not human.

Comentario de Lanita Grice en Hombres, Mujeres, y Enseñanza Superior

Lanita Grice — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:21:48 +0000

Hmmmm. As one of the women with an advanced degree who earns even less than $27,000 a year (partly because I have decided to simplify my life, work only part-time, and volunteer more) I have a couple of comments.

While I have many times – and often resentfully – reminded male friends and colleagues of the money discrepancies even within the same profession, I would never say that my education is not meaningful to me (not remunerative, but definitely meaningful!)

It’s pretty cool that more women are becoming doctors – this means that health care in this country has the chance to become patient-centered again! I consider myself to be a feminist, so I see a certain sexism in my remarks here – but if I have no other information available than gender to help me choose, I will always prefer a woman physician to a man. Whether it’s nature or nurture or choice, women are more empathetic, they listen better, and they are much better primary care physicians than men.

If you look at the areas where women are gaining on men, they are people and natural world oriented professions. As far as I’m concerned, the more highly educated women we have working in the environmental fields and moving up in the bureaucracies, the better.

Judging success only by the salaries of individuals doesn’t allow for the influence women will continue to gain in all fields of endeavor.

Another thought – another possibility for our lower salaries is that we measure our success differently from men. Perhaps men need $$$$ in order to feel effective, whereas women are more likely to value the progress made by group effort, to see the importance of collaboration over leading, to want to have an enjoyable work/life balance. All those are worth more than money. What are we going to do with a bunch of money anyway? Spend it on cars that pollute, clothes we don’t need, shoes that hurt our feet, having more children than the planet can support.

Maybe we are exactly where we need to be…

Comentario de Mr. Shea Brown en ¿Es Paz Posible?

Mr. Shea Brown — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:34:05 +0000

Yes,,please do hold onto your belief that peace is possible!
But more than that,, demand peace.
So many want to believe the world is so very old,, but we are just a baby.
We still do not have an effective international police force,, and we are struggling with a world criminal court.
Fate and evolution have brought us this far,, and now education and law will bring us the rest of the way.
You have relative peace and order in your local community, most probably, because you have a fairly intelligent police staff, and a reasonable local court.
We cannot ever expect to have peace in this world without enforceable international law.
Again,, we are a young world.
We are still willing to kill over what is in the “tomato patch.”
Soon,, we will be killing over rights to clean water.
I believe the world has a small window to become a world of laws.
If we do not encourage these radical dreamers,, we are probably destined to recklessly poison our planet,, killing our populations,, leaving massive amounts of weapons and arms for the tougher insects to crawl over in centuries ahead.
Yes,,, peace is very possible,, but peace must be enforced.
Man proves everyday,, that he needs to be very carefully monitored.
Peace equals effective and consistent international law enforcement.
Sounds sort of odd for an old hippy to say this,, but this is the case.

Comentario de David Martin en Bienvenido

David Martin — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:43:44 +0000

Useful help in choosing software as my PRIME requirement is to moderate comments before posting for public view.

Not sure if your blog continues today but thans for posting it.

Comentario de Peacekeeper en Inmigración Ilegal en los EEUU

Peacekeeper — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:24:27 +0000

Thanks for words written. I agree that illegals deserve at least some help to become legal. For example, working illegally isn’t stealing something or killing someone. It’s just that – trying to make a living. I believe that illegal immigrants shouldn’t be threatened as criminals (how usually most people call them). If there was some term allowing illegals to obtain legal status (with some limitations maybe, but with papers at least), people would be just happy. I believe that the US changed during last decades. But it still the place where people believed to get a better life. I’m sure that illegal immigrants that brake the law should be deported, but they unfortunately cast dark shadow to those who working and obey law so people start thinking in a bad way of all illegals in the country. We should aware of this. OK, I believe that the US is a powerful country that should help those in need for help. At this time illegals aren’t expect anything but deportation and social problems. But, for God sake, would you mind an illegal that working and obey law to be your neighborhood? I wouldn’t.