Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Nov 30, 2011, 7:01 pm
There are several types of drunks. The Cinderella type who comes home wearing only one shoe. The Snow White type who wakes up in a bed with seven unknown men. The Red Riding Hood type that instead of coming home ends up in Grandmother's house. The Sleeping Beauty who cannot remember what happened in...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Jul 9, 2011, 9:57 pm
Winnie the Pooh meets Piglet: "Piglet, I read about your future.""Where, in my horoscope?""No, in a cookbook."
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Jul 6, 2011, 12:55 am
(a quest for wisdom, love and freedom) This world is the world we know and understand. The other world is the world of the unknown. Philosophy is the name of the ship that can take us on a voyage of exploration of that world. The controls of this ship are easy to master because the only indispensab...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Jul 1, 2011, 11:00 pm
Is there anything common between the demonstrations in Greece, Libya and Syria? Wouldn't it be good for Greece to go bankrupt as Island did? Island seems to be OK now. Why wouldn't the US default on its debt? Again there is nothing wrong with Iceland. Why in the case of Greece the world community ...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - May 29, 2011, 11:56 pm
Why not? All powerful, immortal, all knowing it looks like God should be happy at all times. If you imagine God as a content Buddha – free of desires or a like Jesus ascending to Heaven that may be so but I doubt it. Yes, I too can see the serene beauty of a stone or of vapour rising to the clouds...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Apr 25, 2011, 7:03 pm
Turkey and Ukraine will make travel between the two countries visa-free. That is good news. In comparison several centuries before that the relationships between them are best expressed in the following memorable piece of diplomatic correspondence: The text of the Sultan's letter to the Cossacks: As...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Apr 8, 2011, 6:39 am
If we the people are created in God's image then we must have God's perfection, sovereignty, power and knowledge. Unfortunately we don't. Most people are far from perfect, easily oppressed or enslaved and often helpless. Our knowledge is frequently inadequate and ignorance causes most of humanity's ...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Apr 3, 2011, 5:31 am
A scared middle aged Yemeni man running towards the camera repeatedly yelling Allahu Akbar his voice trembling is the picture that will remain etched in my memory from the recent pro-democracy protests in the Arab world. The fact that the man is obviously afraid and horrible things might be happenin...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Jan 26, 2011, 4:03 am
- You know there is life outside the Internet. - Really? What's the link?
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Jan 12, 2011, 2:11 am
Happiness Happiness is what people are after. It has two prerequisites; life (for obvious reasons) and liberty (somewhat more obscure but based on the premise that people can only pursue happiness when they are free to decide what it is and how to pursue it). To achieve happiness people make plans ...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Dec 16, 2010, 3:13 am
Life, freedom and wealth are individual. They constitute the good life. To pursue these goals people cooperate in the fields of business, politics and ideas. Business is best governed by the market but that being based on human judgement is not perfect. Its utility is in the fact that he market agg...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Nov 11, 2010, 3:56 pm

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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Jul 12, 2010, 5:20 am
I will start with the assumption that humanitarian interventions and the subsequent statebuilding consistently fail and that there is, apart from particular circumstances, a common reason for failure that can be discovered and addressed to improve the effectiveness of future humanitarian interventio...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Jul 7, 2010, 5:03 am
The ability to love yourself ultimately determines the extent of your ability to love somebody. To claim that you can love someone more than yourself is hypocritical and sounds as a claim that your glass is five quarters full J You can only love someone you know and the person you know best is yours...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - May 10, 2010, 7:14 pm
Ethics, Rights, Identities and Interests Ethical considerations have no meaning if they do not lead to better life for the participants in a social interaction. The road to hell is paved with good intentions (Dante). Due the complexity of modern life, though, it is often difficult to foresee the co...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Apr 17, 2010, 7:38 am
Its in the common interest to create a society where "the pen is mightier that the sword" if only because the pen is less dangerous that the sword and mistakes with a pen are easier to fix than those committed with a sword. The first attempt at political organization probably stemmed from two lines ...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Apr 12, 2010, 1:07 am
Philosophy The thesis that individual interests ultimately converge to form municipal, national and international political and business institutions will be the focal point of my research. Initially the priorities of these interests can be discerned as personal above community and if rated by urgen...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Oct 23, 2009, 3:50 pm
This is an attempt to look at the economic aspect of US - China relations from a Chinese perspective. This approach may yield interesting insights in the most important economic axis of economic interdependence of the modern world, and generate innovative ideas about how to approach existing and fu...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Oct 23, 2009, 3:50 pm
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Oct 14, 2009, 6:07 am
God (if yo are a believer) doesn't seem to take part in daily micromanagement of world affairs and we are very much free do do as we please. Including do wrong and including harm ourselves and others. Yet deep inside we are similar and some see this as proof of one creator and I agree with them but ...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Oct 14, 2009, 6:07 am
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Oct 13, 2009, 4:50 am
Sovereignty involves rights and duties among which the protection of one's fellow citizens is paramount. Historically people have organized in territorially distinct and independent states to build up the power and security necessary for achieving their goals of prosperity and peace. When a governm...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Oct 13, 2009, 4:50 am
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Oct 13, 2009, 4:12 am
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Oct 13, 2009, 4:12 am
"What's your father's name?" asks the teacher "I don't know." "What does your mother call him?" "Idiot..."
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Sep 30, 2009, 6:37 am
You big, amazing, crazy world are stunning, beautiful, painful and absurd. You made me and I'm making you every second, day after day, but still don't understand all whats and hows and most importantly most whys. But even if I don't know why I feel what's good and what is bad. It helps me stumble a...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Sep 30, 2009, 6:37 am
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Jul 5, 2009, 5:53 am
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Jul 5, 2009, 5:53 am
Nasreddin Hodja was determined to prove his faith. He prayed fervently to Allah to move a mountain towards him but nothing happened. People, started to laugh. Great is Allah, said Hodja. If Allah has brought the mountain here it would have crushed us. How stupid of me to pray for something so vain....
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Jun 27, 2009, 6:32 am
God is Great and death to all dictators! The call from the rooftops of Tehran echoed around the world. God is Great and the dictators in charge of Iran and those who support them have nothing to do with God. They are all about their petty interests afraid from the wrath of the people, afraid that if...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Jun 13, 2009, 4:46 pm
Volunteer engineers, drinking beers, all in tears listening to Britney Spears.
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Mar 31, 2009, 5:24 am
Sir John was in love with Lady Mary. Every day he was riding his white horse under her window hoping to attract her attention but in vain. One day he decided to paint his horse green thinking: “When I pass under Lady Mary's window she will ask me why my horse is green an I will answer: because I l...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Mar 23, 2009, 7:39 am
We discussed global economics in a group at my local church We discussed the need to incorporate ethical judment in the study of politics. I know its dangerous to mix science and ideology or even worse try to pass ideology for science. I come from a communist country and know first hand how bad is t...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Mar 11, 2009, 6:26 am
- Do you offer a reward to the person who finds your dog? - Yes, I do! Where is it? - I haven't found it yet but can I have an advance payment?
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Mar 5, 2009, 7:19 pm
God is watching us and probably laughing his head of at our stupidity. But then again may that's why he created us in the first place for his amusement That makes sense. Its comforting to know that the one in charge has a sense of humor
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Feb 28, 2009, 4:08 am
Iraq the problems is not security but lack of democracy. And democracy is not about elections but about economically and politically independent middle class which is lacking in Iraq. We have corrupt government that supports corruption in politics and the economy and is widely perceived by the Unit...
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Alex Great posted an article on Political Philosophy - Feb 28, 2009, 12:18 am
I think identity is a thing of the past. I'm more interested in who (not what) a person is. But many people cling to and find illusionary security in some imagined national, religious, racial, class, caste or neighborhood belonging. We only belong to ourselves. Anything else is from the devil used f...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Feb 19, 2009, 10:24 pm
If China, Mexico and Iraq, Afghanistan or maybe Russia are the most serious foreign policy problems what is Hillary doing in Indonesia and Obama in Canada? What pressing business do they have there?
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Feb 19, 2009, 9:33 am
"Laziness is the mother of any genius" said Pushkin (a famous Russian poet of African ancestry and himself ancestor to the current heir to British throne). Still slouching on the couch wont do. A real genius must be lazy creatively. You must be really inventive to find ways to be lazy and prevent an...
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Feb 18, 2009, 2:52 pm
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Alex Great posted an article on Lazy Star Path - Feb 15, 2009, 4:40 am
Exploding Star!
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