Why Financial Crisis is a Good Thing Or How to Thrive in the Gloom and Doom

October 7th, 2008 Dow Jones took a dive by a whopping 508 points. Over the past three months global markets were hit by an $8.1 trillion loss in value. Banks fail one after another, panic in the Wall Street... That's what already came to be known as the biggest economy meltdown since the Great Depression. The helter-skelter of the stock-exchange swiftly resonates everywhere. With media fuelling the buzz you need to have a steel nerve or live deep in the forest not to be concerned with the crisis thing. The home-grown economic prophets loudly predict 'the end of the world as we know it'. The last thing you'd want to do in times like that is start a business, right? - Not quite. Great Depression Creates Great Opportunities History knows a lot of cases when economic meltdowns created opportunities...

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Internet Education Needs to Go Beyond the Classroom

While almost every state in the country requires children to receive some form of training on the Internet, there are no such laws for parents, guardians, or grandparents. Without adults receiving the proper knowledge needed to deal with the problems their children may encounter on the Internet, the classroom education can be for naught. There are numerous resources available for adults to learn about such topics as Sexting, Cyberbullying, Online Predators, Copyright infringement, plagiarism, and more. The issue becomes, "Are they taking advantage of these resources or just ignorant of the problem?" More than likely, they are ignorant of the issues surrounding them and their children from Internet dangers. One of the best ways to educate adults on the dangers their children face on the Internet...

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Is ‘God exists’ a ‘hinge proposition’ of religious belief?

Unlike many of our other beliefs which lack apriori support, however, it is often alleged that belief in the existence of God could never be epistemically supported in an empirical manner either. Suppose that one argued, àla G. E. Moore,3 that one’s belief in the existence of the external world is warranted on the grounds that one possesses suffi-cient empirical evidence to warrant one’s belief in an everyday proposition (such as “I have two hands”), which, if true, would entail the existence of the external world. – whether we believe in God or not – the latter merely attacks a significant portion of the beliefs of a person who has the requisite religious beliefs. Take the argument proffered above concerning our belief in the external world. We are thus still lumbered with the original problem...

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