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A balanced life or a centered life

We’ve all heard about the need to have a balanced life.  I’ve thought a bit about this and am not clear this is the best approach.
  

Best political interviewer on TV?

Criteria

  • Who does he/she interview? 
  • Do they ask the right questions? 
  • Do they follow up if the interviewee ducks the question or gives an misleading response?

My response?  John Stewart.  When your best interviewer is on Comedy Central, you know the major media outlets have failed.
  

Have you ever thought deeply about Free Will?

I have and it is enough to send you to the funny farm.  Do you believe in Free Will?  Why or why not?  If we don’t have free will, then you could believe in it or not and not even be aware that you had no choice.  Strange.

Is belief a choice?

I don’t think so.  You can select your sources of information / wisdom and this willl influence your beliefs, but the actual "What do I believe?" seems beyond choice.
 
If I’m right, what are the implications?  Other comments?

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Let's begin again

Even the best relationship sometimes hit a bump in the road. Like all married couples, my wife Donna and I occasionally get ticked at each other. Sometimes we truly disagree; other times it is a simple matter of miscommunication or an incorrect assumption. When this happens and frostiness fills the room, one of us will stop and simply say to the other…

“Let’s begin again.”

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