Today is my 50th birthday, so what is it that matters on that day?
I'm really gratefull for having a family around me and not sitting somewhere alone today, I must admit.
I had a nice visit at a museum with my wife, a good lunch after that, right now I am enjoying to do not very much at all, nice summer weather outside, my older son has baked a cake for me, and I'm looking forward to eat pizza with my two boys in the evening.
I am lucky.
Thank you, world!

I really do not understand why most people have such a big need to answer questions with yes or no instead of leaving them open.
Of course it is sometimes necessary to make a yes or no decission, even if we can`t be sure, but in many cases it is not, and it is much better to work with a floating likelyhood in the range of "for sure yes" through "maybe" to "for sure no".
I truely disgust when someone obviously does not know, then chooses a position, and then declares those who do not choose this position as wrong.

"The world is rational" was the philosophical viewpoint number 1 of the great mathematician Kurt Gödel.

Kurt Gödel  suffered periods of mental instability and in the end he starved to death, due to an obsessive fear of being poisoned.

It's not irrationality which makes a psychopath, but an exaggerated believe in rationality.

Quite often things which appear to be weak survive, whereas on the other hand things which appear to be strong fall apart. How come?

Example 1: 

A country which is threatened from all sides often survives, because the people are alert, and a common enemy makes them hold together. In a country which is strong, people tend to become lazy, and they tend to do what is best for themselves and not for the common interest.

Example 2:

Marriages which seem to be "impossible combinations" last, whereas dream-couples divorce. Maybe keeping up an impossible combination against all odds is a higher incentive than to maintain something which anybody anyway expects to succeed?

What is your goal for today?
I hope it is more than to survive the day.
Have a good day, may your wish become true!

Looking at the world full of life and wonders, isn't it just shameless to be miscontent and ask for more "meaning" behind all that? Isn't the true reason for such a shameless question the inability to cope with our own shortcommings, kind of "I'm not the winner I wanted to be ... so there must be more ... somewhere else".
Shame on you, looser!

Yesterday I watched the Eurovision song contest on TV.
The artists perform on a floor which is a huge screen.
The walls are almost only screens.
Most artists perform alone, only accompanied by special effects.
Will soon even the artists be replaced by animations?
Good night, world.

Mankind believes that it uses wheat as food.
The truth is that wheat uses mankind to grow and spread over the whole world.

We are told a lot that democracy is good. But the real point is that democracy is strong.
If there were a method to find the 1000 smartest people in a country, and if there were a method to find the 10% of those 1000 which have the best heart, these 100 would be much better leaders for the country than what democracy ever can achive.
But for the first, there is no such objective way to do this selection.
And for the second, such a government might be far away from what the average people want, so it would lack the needed support.
That is what makes democracy a strong system, that the gap between people and government is smaller than in other political systems, which reduces inner friction and inner loss of the system's power.

I consider vegetarian lifestyle an evolutionary step, away from the beast.

Is there any other aim than to gain pleasure? If there isn't, that's not much, is it?

On some days it's hard to keep up the believe that there is meaningfullness hidden behind all the obviously meaningless.

Hello world