Wednesday, 29 June 2011

29th June 2011 Moral Medicine?

June 29B
It sounds highly improbable, that a medicine called 'Fluoxetina', commercialized as 'Prozac', and some other antidepressants, apart from altering the mental state of patients, could be used to help or balance certain moral conducts, and rehabilitate wicked, felonious or criminal behaviours.
 
That was assured by the doctors Guy Kahane and Tom Douglas, in the book they co-authored 'Enhancing Human Capacities'. Further more, the future medical advances will facilitate and expedite moral and complex manipulations.
 
All good guys. Half the doctors and most of the psychiatrists would be out of a job. Priests would be twiddling their thumbs all day with no sinners confessing and asking for absolutions; police and lawyers' jobs can be done by anyone without a special diploma or degree ... On the bigger picture, there would be no conflicts, no wars, an absolutely perfect world. I wonder whether more than a few might consider it boring!?
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29th June 2011 Giggles - The Proposal, The Last Request ...

June 29A
A widdle wabbit ~

A cute little girl walks into a pet shop and asks, in the sweetest little lisp between 2 missing teeth, 'Excuthe me, mithter, do you keep widdle wabbits?'


As the shopkeeper's heart melts, he gets down on his knees so that he's on her level and asks, 'Do you want a widdle white wabbit, or a thort and fuwwy, bwack wabbit, or maybe one like that cute widdle bwown wabbit over there?'


She, in turn, blushes, rocks on her heels, puts her hands on her knees, leans forward and says, in a tiny quiet voice, 'I don't think my python weally gives a thit!'


A Sermon ~

A priest was giving a sermon in Mass, when he noticed on the 1st row a man was asleep. He raised his voice but he couldn't wake the man. So he says to a boy sitting next to the man and says, 'Wake him up for me, would you?'


'Why me?', says the boy, 'You are the one that puts him to sleep!'


The last request ~

On his death bed, a man says to his wife: 'Maria, promise me, when I die, you will Mary Antonio.'

'But why, he is your worst enemy!'

'That's why.'


Contraceptive pills ~

A woman asked her doctor to prescribe her some birth control pills. The doctor, taken aback, said: 'But Mrs Greenwood, you are 82 years old. What would you possibly need birth control pills for?'


'To help me sleep better.'


The doctor considered this for a second, and continued: 'How in the world do birth control pills help you sleep?'

The woman said: 'I put them in my granddaughter's orange juice, so I sleep better at night.'


A proposal ~

Two senior citizens, she widow, he widower, have known each other for years. One night they both attended the community club dinner for retired folks, sitting opposite each other. He looked at her thoughtfully for a long while and finally gathered up courage to ask: 'Would you consider marrying me?'


'Yes, yes. I accept.' She replied.

The dinner was nice and they had a fine evening, then returned to their respective homes.


The following day, the old man was worried because he had forgotten whether the woman had said yes or no to his proposal. He thought, and thought hard, but no idea. He phoned the woman, explaining that his memory was not as good as it used to be, and was wondering whether she had said yes or no to his proposal of marriage.


He was delighted when the woman answered a positive yes. And she continued: 'Indeed I accepted with all my heart, and I am so very happy that you called to confirm it, as I had spent the whole morning trying to remember who had proposed to me last night!!!'  

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29th June 2011 Going Slow - To Savour Time & Life

June 29
Time is a gift; from God if you are a believer. We hear often people say they have no time for this or that. But we do have time, and plenty. What we don't have is a healthy relation or understanding with it. Wasting or losing time is a great sin of the 21st century.  
 
Paradoxically, we put ourselves in the race and we waste the time. What we need to do is to treat time as air that surrounds us, it exists without us being obsessed with it. There is space even in the busy city of today, one just needs to rehabilitate our thoughts and actions, to plan and practice, not to treat your life like a race against time, and recuperate the pleasure of living. Slowness is more a state of mind.
 
How to apply this philosophy in work for instance? It's an art of changing paces. There are moments or areas that require more longitude better to produce bigger and better results. Some more Vanguardia companies have realized, and recognised, that employees yield more of themselves if they are given time and possibilities to manage and be their own boss in their given field of work or projects, instead of having to consult and wait for permission on every single step to carry out the work in hand. The Japanese firms are the first ones to realize and practice this, and find that the expected results come up in half the time with only 60% of the estimated man power and effort.
 
Parents and couple too often neglect what's more important for their family, alleging that they want to but no time to be with them. The key is to set priorities, cut back the list of compromises and concentrate on only the most important. In a family, creating moments to be together is almost sacred.
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