If the leaders desire what is good, the people will become good also. –Confucius Some people doubt if Confucianism is a religion. Confucius never talked about a god; he didn’t discuss the afterlife. His sole interest was establishing what he called The Mandate of Heaven upon the earth. He envisioned a perfect society, without crime, […]
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The Rampage of Sgt. Bales
“My rage, my fury would drive me now to hack your flesh away and eat you raw – such agonies you have caused me.” -Achilles At the beginning of the Iliad, we find Achilles sulking in his tent. Refusing to fight, because Agamemnon took his sexy, blonde war prize, Achilles doesn’t lift a finger even […]
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