Quand on ne sait pas et qu’on ne nous renseigne pas Il faut lire, lire de tout et de toute, lire beaucoup. Sinon, la seule vérité serait la leur, ou encore pire, la nôtre. . .- 13-07-07

Life is an endless fountain of discoveries and incredible what ifs. Never is anything absolute. At this point in the evolution of Man, and despite our fears and anxieties, there are only possibilities and maybes and wondrously crazy hypotheses.- 13-02-06

We can feel sad and even angry for the sins of our forefathers. But we can never take on their sins. Feeling guilty or apologizing for the acts of our predecessors is not only naïve it is also the worst kind of politically correct revisionism. By agreeing to such a concept we accept to minimize the sin of the sinner, to render the actions of the perpetrators benign. Apologizing for another means taking on the responsibility which rightfully belongs to those of another time. It blemishes the conscience of an innocent in order to satisfy a festering blood lust for a revenge - a revenge which can neither satisfy nor create change. This contemporary practice is not only an abuse of generosity but a manipulation of the truth. Aplogizing for the sins of another is to, ironically, foster the one process which must never be initiated: that of “ collectively forgetting which wipes the slate clean”. The only way horrendous past sins are atoned is for them to be recognized and remembered for what they were by the descendants of both the victims and the perpetrators. By acknowledging the past lowest common denominators of humanity, the present and future heights always dreamed of become reachable. Our responsibility is not to take on the guilts of the past but to join with each other in bettering our present world in order that our childen and their children's children continue a process which must be born of never forgetting in order to never repeat. - 08-04-2005

Stop Trying To Feel The Pain Of Tsunami Survivors - Pete McMartin (Vancouver Sun) (09-01-05).

There is more about contemporary psychology and the North American "self-inflicted-illnesses" of our times in this artcle than has ever been writen in any modern psychology book to date. . . - 09-01-05

In our haste to better the world we have created a collective conscience which inadvertently has eliminated individual conscience and in the end has evaporated our ability to feel the consequences of right or wrong. - 99

The activist is most evident in his/her screams and imposing views; most evidently absent once the goals are achieved and effort is required to maintain the fact of those goals. - 98

What arrogance ignorance often displays - 97

Those who would improve the world are often those who fail to look in the mirror. - 96

So obsessed are we about telling others to do right, we forget that just maybe we have no right to be imposing “our” right. - 96

Without the oppression of absolutism we would be stuck in a world of freedom, total fulfilment and unfettered bliss. How in the world could any of us cope with that? - 95

An absolutist is a perfectionist with attitude. . . - 93

There is nothing like a question from the ranks of amateurs to upset the absolutist diatribe of self-appointed specialists. - 91