"Truth can never be proved: it can only be suggested."

 
 
  Lin Yutang  
     

We need a change of mind:
Common Sense versus New-Speaks

   
Nipawin - Monday - March 10, 2003 - by: Mario deSantis
 

Islamic
terrorism

We are all confused today with this war against Iraq peddled by this petulant and inept Bush administration. In fact, we are facing a supposed conflict of civilization as it is emerging with the perils of Islamism which has been blamed for the 9-11 attacks, for the instability of the Middle East and for the experiencing of world wide terrorism.

 

 

Christian
crusade

When I hear that President Bush is guided by his Evangelism in pursuing a war against Iraq then I am really convinced that both this much talked Islamic fundamentalism and this Bush's Christian Evangelism are at fault and that they are both the main culprits, today, of war and terrorism.
 
 

common
sense

I was reading few days ago the very interesting article "The Universe inside our scull" by Timothy Shire, and I concur with him that "Real world, is completely and totally personal" as long as we don't forget our own common sense (and sixth sense) which arises from living together.
 
 

truth
suggested

We need more and more common sense and less and less religious fundamentalism, be it Islamism or Evangelism or some other ...ism. In fact, I agree with the Chinese saying that
"Truth can never be proved: it can only be suggested."

 

 

neoconservative

Today, let us all make the effort to read the article "World of doubt Foreign affairs minister needs to be more honest" by Ezra Levant and let us make any private comment to the truth as suggested by this neconservative inflated asset.
 
 

fake
evidence

Today, let us make another effort in reading the article "Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake: U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged" by Joby Warrick and let us make another private comment to the truth as suggested by President Bush.
 
 

stock
options

And today, let us make yet a further extra effort in reading the article "Buffett warns on investment time bomb" by the BBC News and let us make the further extra private comment to the truth, about market derivatives and stock options, as suggested by Economics Nobel Laureates and Chicago's alumni Myron Scholes and Robert C. Merton.
 
 

humanity

If you didn't get it yet, well . . , we need a change of mind where the common sense of our humanity replaces the obsoletism of our new-speaks.

 

 
   
 

Mario deSantis

References:
  Shire, Timothy The Universe inside our scull March 6, 2003 Ensign
   
  Huntington, Samuel The Clash of Civilizations? Foreign Affairs Summer 1993
   
  Yutang, Lin My Country And My People 1935 http://www.chinasprout.com/store/BHT008.html
   
  Levant, Ezra World of doubt Foreign affairs minister needs to be more honest (PDF) March 10, 2003 Calgary Sun
   
  Warrick, Joby Some Evidence on Iraq Called Fake: U.N. Nuclear Inspector Says Documents on Purchases Were Forged (pdf) March 7, 2003 Washington Post
   
  BBC News Buffett warns on investment 'time bomb' March 4, 2003 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2817995.stm
   
  The Shawnee News-Star Two Americans win Nobel prize for economics October 14, 1997 http://www.news-star.com/stories/101497/new_nobel.html
   
  deSantis, Mario Systems Dynamics in Education: Thinking Differently February 21, 1999 Ensign
   
  Editor's note: If Lin Yatang interests you below are some references:
 
The Chuang-tzu, Lin Yutang’s Introduction
http://www.clas.ufl.edu/users/gthursby/taoism/cz-text1.htm

A complete Tao Te Ching, translated by Dr. Lin Yutang
http://oaks.nvg.org/ys1ra3.html

Lin Yutang a short biography
http://oaks.nvg.org/ys1ra4.html

Lin Yutang’s Masterpeice
http://www.cityu.edu.hk/ccs/Newsletter/newsletter4/Masterpiece/master.htm

 

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