“Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed is the only thing that ever has.”

- Margaret Mead

I received a moment ago a message from a member of the "The Big Book of Humanity" -group in Facebook with some very good questions and I would like to share this ensuing discussion with the readers of this blog. I must apologize that this blog has become a tool for this project for the moment, but just now I have nothing else in my mind. I promise that the normal… Continue

Social interaction is the word of today and in my vision "The Big Book of Humanity" is a quite interactive place. In my vision every single "idea" (which can be a quotation, a verse of poem or a brief description of a scientific idea) has its own page that has a voting application. This voting by readers and users then decides the place and value of the idea in the subsection or heading under which it it resides.

I see the whole thing divided to several subsections, such as "Heritage", "Family"… Continue

I talked in my last post about the need for a "Big Book of Humanity". The basic idea was that it would gather together the best ideas of thinkers, writers, poets, philosophers and scientists of the past to form a comprehensive guidebook on how to be a good human inhabitant of this little blue planet.

I must at this point thank Adelaide Dupont, who with her comment to my previous blog-posting got me into realizing that the "Big Book of Humanity" that I envisioned simply must be a result of colla… Continue

There are a lot of different and equally great recipes for a lot of dishes, and there are a lot of good recipes for life also. Why should we pick just one, if we can freely combine the best parts of all of them and learn from all of them?

I for example think that the ancient school of Stoicism has a lot to offer, and I have studied it intensively recently, but of course it is not the only and final interpretation for the good life.

I have familiarized myself quite well with Epicureanism also a… Continue