The mirror serves as a tool we use to view "ourselves". But how "ours" is the self we view? Technically speaking, mirrors only serve optical illusions -- the things we see in it are not really real: we cannot touch a mirror image.
William Hung Dies
William Hung dies of a drug overdose: fact or fiction?
Feminist Catholics
Catholicism appears to many as a male-dominated religion, even with the modern trend of down-playing the male's dominance. What then, would make a feminist admit to being a Catholic?
View Personal Faults
God should have created a website where we could "view personal faults" -- it would allow us to improve upon ourselves, without those awkward discussions where tact precedes honesty.
Handphones Can Diminish Our Responsibility
Handphones can diminish our responsibility. No longer do we feel bad when we turn up late for a meeting -- we just need to give them a call, right?
The Ghost of Shoplifting Past
Buying a present, I told myself, meant budgeting your love with money. When you stole one, you were risking everything just to see new earrings on your sister's ears.
Taking God for Granted
The majority of us believe in God, take it for granted that God exists. The rest, who do not believe, take it for granted that God does not exist. Either way, God is taken for granted.
Hunger and Murder
An anology linking the typical "cheating" when on a diet, to the murder of a man.
Sober Realists are Depressed
It's a teling comment on the pervasiveness of unrealistic optimism that the sober realists are often accused of being pessimists.
Camus: Selected Quotes on the Stupidity of this world
Quotations from Albert Camus, from his essay, The Myth of Sisyphus.
