Ah, love! Could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits- and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!
“Omar Khayam”

Posted:Thursday, January 30, 2003 | 

LOVE IS A SICKNESS
by: Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)
LOVE is a sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
A plant that with most cutting grows,
Most barren with best using.
Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies;
If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries--
Heigh ho!

Love is a torment of the mind,
A tempest everlasting;
And Jove hath made it of a kind
Not well, nor full of fasting.
Why so?
More we enjoy it, more it dies;
If not enjoy'd, it sighing cries--
Heigh ho!


Posted:Wednesday, January 29, 2003 | 

Feelings always have a touch of je ne sais quoi in them, but your thing looks more like "love's got a hold on you" by Alan Jackson (written by Farid)
Posted:Tuesday, January 28, 2003 | 

Have you ever experienced any paradoxical feeling. You are bored, but not bored. You feel tired but not really tired. You think that you are depressed but there isn’t any symptom of depression. You do not know what you really suffer from if there is anything. Your are happy and sad! Maybe your life becomes too monotonous and repetitive. Whose life is not? You do what your ancestors did. Life is an obligation that you did not choose. Fortunately, you can decide to continue or not.
Have you?.( written by Iman)


Posted:Tuesday, January 28, 2003 | 

Animal rights; I think this is a challenging issue. There are many movements in the world that fight against the exploiting of animals. They usually show the pictures of animals that have savagely been sacrificed! by human for what they say the unnecessary experiments. Or "lab animals" that are used in the testing of toxic chemicals, cosmetics, and almost every kind of household product. They say that human beings do not have this right to kill animals for their own benefits. On the other hand, many biologists believe that the future of experimental medicine will be threatened, if they are prohibited to do their researches. Here we can ask two questions: How would be our life, if we did not reach to these improvements in medical sciences based on what have been done in the experimental labs? What do they (the animal concerns communities!) say when lions prey upon innocent deers?!. I think we should look at this case from another point of view. There is not doubt that “every creature has right to live”. Since animals are sentient creatures. Like humans, It seems likely that they have feelings and can suffer.( written by Iman)
Posted:Tuesday, January 28, 2003 | 

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. Mahatma Gandhi
Posted:Tuesday, January 28, 2003 | 

One of the issues I like to know different standpoints about is where we have got our human rights . As humans, we have entitled ourselves the right to stop the lives of plants and animals for our own benefit or destoy them when they mess with ours , and we know this as our inalienable right. Even the Green Party's final beneficiary is human. Can any man-made philosophy give an answer to this? Is it the pain that a highly evolved animal goes through what makes such an experiment immoral in the eye of some , or life itself is the essence , and if it's life that matters , then what's the difference between a frog in biology lab and the mouse that suffers pain, but if it's only our interest as humans that matters, then where have we got this right.(written by Farid)
Posted:Monday, January 27, 2003 | 

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower


Posted:Saturday, January 25, 2003 |