By Donald B. Ardell - 08.10.14
Introduction: Embracing Meaninglessness
The first step on the road to REAL wellness is to give up any thought that your life has been ordained as part of some mysterious grand plan. It hasn’t!
Seekers of wellness orgasms, or WOs, embrace the knowledge that their life has occurred by pure genetic chance. It was never meant to be, it just happened.
People who experience multiple WO’s understand the chance nature of their existence and the...
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - July 13, 2014
Introduction
There are many days that will “live in infamy” (FDR), alongside December 7, 1941. Just two obvious examples are November 22, 1963 and September 11, 2001. Most people would have several days in history to volunteer for inclusion in the infamy files if asked by pollsters for nominations, depending upon their politics, loyalties and passions. If asked, I would list May 5, 2014 for inclusion as a date to “live in infamy.”
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 06.04.14
Introduction
In a first season episode of the hit TV series “The West Wing,” there was an exchange between a black nominee for appointment to the post of assistant attorney general (played by Carl Lumbly) and a top staff aide to the president. The appointee explained to the aide why he favors this controversial view, noting his agreement with those who claim the government owes black people a trillion dollars in slavery reparations.
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell - 05.11.14
No man standing where the horizon of a life has touched a grave has any right to prophesy a future filled with pain and tears. It may be that death gives all there is of worth to life. If those who press and strain against our hearts could never die, perhaps that love would wither from the earth. Maybe a common faith treads from out the paths between our hearts the weeds of selfishness, and I should rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not. - Robert Green Ingersoll, Oration at a Child's Grave, 1882
Read MoreBy Donald B. Ardell – 04.13.14
Mindful that REAL wellness is a philosophy and lifestyle fashioned over time to promote a healthful existence and a high quality of life guided by reason, exuberance, athleticism and freedom, where, you might wonder, do sex and chocolate fit into this picture?
If you have wondered, well, let me offer a perspective on the matter, one topic at a time. First, let’s look at sex.
Read MoreBy Don Ardell - 03.04.14
We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year’s fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
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