A Fresh Opinion

All Aboard the Copenhagen Metro!

This is the best rendition of Grieg's Peer Gynt I've *ever* seen. Look at all of the smiling faces aboard the train.

 

A Simply Glorious Expression of Music and Perseverance!

Antidepressants and The Placebo Effect

Unfortunately it takes main stream media and other societal elements EXTRA time to catch up with the facts. 

What facts?

Well, for starters, antidepressants are so, SO much more a money-maker than an appropriate medicine.

 

Have You Lived Before This Life?

via www.youtube.com

At the end of the video, the lad indicates that he'd like others to know that they may have lived before. Well, I'd like to thank him for his persistence in getting his connection to his past life sorted out. And a very well done to his parents for being discerning and compassionate. Some parents might have just told their child to "cut out the nonsense" when the child made a reference to an experience from a previous life.

All of use have lived many, many lives already and there's many, many more lives to come. The idea of having lived before is not something that Scientology requires or forces anyone to believe. When people receive enough Scientology counseling, they just see for themselves and the facts are compelling. Check out an earlier post I wrote on this most intriguing subject.

ADHD — The Challenge

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The Impact of Good Nutrition on Education

 

Those who produce and dispense psychiatric drugs to our children might want to consider the impact of nutrition on the well-being of kids before they immerse them in dangerous drugs. 

Oh, and that goes for everyone, not just kids.

A Friend's Tribute to His Folks

A friend of mine, a long time Scientologist, put together a great video with the following words:

"My dad died in July, so for my mom's 90th birthday I wanted to do something special. I made this video of their wedding ceremony from old family films and used my song, "Here's to the Days Gone By." It was a perfect fit. Love you mom. Love you dad."

"Here's To The Days Gone By" at http://www.TheRealNealFox.com

I thought it was incredibly touching.

How Much Do Pharmaceutical Companies Pay Doctors To Shill for Them?

$760,000,000 — Seven hundred and sixty million dollars paid out in just the last two years by pharmaceutical companies to doctors.

Now, you'll notice in the video this is in "disclosed payments." Hmm. Could there be other payments that are, let's say "not so disclosed"?  

Three quarters of a billion dollars in just two years. That feels like millions of outcomes that are not so wonderful for you, the patient.

On a side note: It's nice to see a random act of journalism with the main stream media.

The Way to Happiness Booklet Prevents Crime!

I received an email today about an incident in which The Way to Happiness booklets appeared to save some lives and more. Here is the email in its entirety: In Mexico there is a group of about 12 Scientologists who distribute The Way to Happiness led by a man nick-named “Tino”. One weekend they decided to distribute the booklets in a northern town that they heard had some recent increase of criminal activity named Sonora. They were driving along the highway when they came around a corner and found a fallen tree lying across the road. They stopped, (along with another truck driving behind them) to see how they could move the tree and suddenly found themselves surrounded by a dozen armed criminals with masks. With guns being waved in their faces, it was clear that these men would not hesitate to kill. They held the Scientologists and the other people in the truck at gunpoint while they searched the vehicles for valuables. In truth, there was only one thing of value in the van…a single box of The Way to Happiness. After several minutes one of the thieves handed the gang’s leader the box. He opened it and saw that they were just booklets. He came up to Tino and said angrily, "What’s this?" Tino told him that he and his team go out city to city to hand this book out to help handle drugs and crime for youth to make a better world "so they don’t turn out like us." Tino explained how The Way to Happiness helps kids and families, and started explaining to the criminal several of the precepts, showing him these in the book.  The criminal leader started reading through The Way to Happiness and after a little bit his grimace turned to interest. Suddenly he closed the book, waving it at Tino. "This…” he said, "This has saved your life. You can go now. Get out of here!"  He then signaled for them to leave. "And the truck behind you can go, too," the leader said and waved them away. But, he kept The Way to Happiness box and while Tino got back in the van he noticed the man was still reading. As they drove away Tino looked in the rearview mirror and saw the criminal leader had started handing out the booklet to each one of his armed and masked gang members!

Here's a great quote from L. Ron Hubbard, the author of The Way to Happiness, about the effects morals (and their lack of) can have on our children: "Whatever one's affection for the child, remember that the child cannot survive well in the long run if he or she does not have his or her feet put on the way to survival. It will be no accident if the child goes wrong: the contemporary society is tailor-made for a child's failure. "It will help enormously if you obtain a child's understanding of and agreement to follow the precepts contained in this book." —L. Ron Hubbard

For more information on how The Way to Happiness book can help you and yours, head on over to The Way to Happiness Foundation.

How Deliberate is the Dumbing Down of America?

 

Throw in a thoroughly arrogant Teachers' Union more interested in self-preservation and power than the well-being and education of our kids, and you've got a perfect storm that IS the current state of public school education in the U.S.

Thankfully, real solutions exist and are being implemented throughout the world. Check out what can be done here.