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Entrepreneurship has more than its fair share of challenges, but from my experience, each time I have been HEAVILY challenged, the opportunity they opened up for my personal growth have always been even more monumental!

Opportunity comes to those who knock on the door

There are two ways you can live your life, either you sit back and live with what life provides OR you put all your effort into making your dreams a reality and make providers give you the life you know you deserve. In other words, the squeeky wheel always gets more oil Most people, sadly, never achieve the life they truly deserve BECAUSE they never bother taking a stand and making active decisions on a daily basis to make them a reality.

Challenges come in all shapes and sizes

The only people who don’t have challenges in life are those who are six feet under. Everyday presents its own amount of challenges and opportunities, big and small… but for entrepreneurs, they are magnified. Challenges don’t just affect you personally, they seep and grow like wildfire with those you deal with. For instance, you got a web designer who is off on vacation but you get a call from a client who needs something done yesterday… what do you do? Call the designer back from vacation OR delay a project OR try to do it yourself OR outsource… the possibilities are as vast as the stars in the universe. Each has its positive and negative aspects! Balancing the challenges, trying to create some homeostasis WHILE pursuing a goal that is somewhat rocking the boat of competitors and the world is a tough act to achieve.

Opportunities come to those who wait… NOT!

I don’t know who said that opportunities come to those who wait because they rarely do! If you sit and watch television and are hoping to build an international company… you need to throw the television our along with the couch you where sitting on in the garbage! Opportunity comes to those who really, with vigor and zest, try to make things happen in the face of constant rejection, down-talk and the most evil of all, the status quo. Entrepreneurs are usually the mavericks trying to unbalance and create a little chaos in a world that is hell-bent on creating stability and predictability! Entrepreneurs are the people who realize they have nothing to loose and endure no matter how much is thrown right back at them… they use the momentum of failure to power their success.

Why do we teach children 9-5?

With all the economic chaos right now happening in this world that that seems to come every 5-7 years on a cyclical basis, why do we still teach our children the importance of a 9-5 life? This is like teaching a fish how to breath slower in a tank that is slowly emptying! We need to teach our children to fly, not hold their breath! Entrepreneurs, both successful and otherwise, are the high-fliers who are usually given very little credit for their failure. Failure is an incredible teacher that just keeps on giving, we should teach our children to take a leap of faith, rock the boat, screw homework… go out and create a little chaos! Homework is a method of control, control leads to a reduction in creativity which ultimately, makes them perfect candidates for the 9-5 lifestyle that they need to avoid like the plague. 9-5 is NOT a career in my opinion, just ask all the people who believed in this false-prophet looking for jobs now in a downed economy. 9-5 just create an environment that is constantly striving to create stability in a world full of chaos… learn to control and master chaos and you will be going WITH nature instead of against it! Stability is but an illusion.

The Bottom Line

Challenges are GOOD, chaos is GOOD, stability is BAD, 9-5 mentality is EVIL.

For people who are so seduced by the idea of an afterlife and how static “their God” is, I present to you even more proof that the laws of evolution have / are taking effect on religion as well. I think Chairman Mao had it right when he said “Religion is an opiate of the masses”. I don’t think religion should be banned, but I do believe this fever suffered by far too many people on this planet is used as an excuse for not living the life they want in the (false) hopes being promised by hypocrites. We no longer believe in mermaids and unicorns, so why the heck do we need to believe in an all powerful god whose only purpose seems to be in limiting the imagination and ambition of “the masses”?

Here is some more interesting video to watch which actually sort of proves what NOVA has discovered.

I am sure I am not the first to realize this but the more extreme people act, the more attention they seem to garner.

Why extremes get attention

From those who (still) fear that the Large Hadron Collider will mark the end of the world to simply “famous” people acting rather stupidly, being extreme does get attention but why? Basically, most people can be organized along a bell curve. You have the 5-10 percent at either end (extremes) and the large majority in the middle living a rather mundane life. How do you give your mundane life some excitement? Well, you read and try to imaging living life through those 10-20 percent extremes. Don’t believe me? Why is it that Britney Spears is able to get front page news reports around the world while the genocides STILL occurring in Africa are barely raising a tick on the attention meter? Unless you are involved in the genocides as either the victim or executor, most people honestly don’t care about what others are going through as death is both a taboo subject in our “civilized” society and celebrities seem to be way more fun with their money, fame and fortunes. Another instance, take the Queen of England, a useless relic who is (was) supported by the taxes of the people she “governed” to live a life of absolute luxury… she gets worldwide attention each time something happens in her family. Why? Who cares? I bet just down the street there are some far more interesting people who don’t live a subsidized life of luxury that can actually play an active role in solving many of the world’s problems without being given an allowance by the general public. So, why do extremes, either created by heritage or otherwise get so much attention? Because they represent a novelty, something out of the ordinary or mundane. They wake people up and make them feel alive, give them something to talk about and sound “intelligent” about.

The spiral of becoming an extreme

Our brains have developed a quick adaptation mechanism that, in some people, is a little out of wack. This isn’t a good or bad thing. To be blunt, not everybody can stand living the life of a lemming being told what to do, how to do it and when by societies norms. The problem with becoming extreme is that the next time around, you must be even more extreme to get the attention otherwise you get little or no attention. We, collectively, quickly become desensitized to things. For instance, if you watch a horror movie made in the 40s or 50s, I am willing to bet you don’t find it all that scary compared to what is being played today. If you where able to travel back in time and bring somebody from the 40s a movie produced in 2008, I am willing to bet that they would totally freak-out. What “was” scary “is” no longer. Sames goes with just about every other aspect of our lives. This is why extreme views become more so with time, if they don’t, they quickly become boring and disregarded. This happens in parties as well, the Republican party in the USA slowly evolved into the “religious, me” party while how the Democrats became the “secular, socialist” party over the period of a few elections. Another example of this is reality TV, they USE to be real but then producers realized that having extremes together made for more interesting television, thus diluting the entire meaning of “reality TV”.

When extremes is linked to finances

Now, imagine your earning potential was directly related to your behavior or lifestyle. For example, Madonna usually does something termed “crazy” just before the release of a new record to get some quick press, same for Michael Jackson and many other artists. This does two things. First, it makes the collective realize that “hey, I remember them (flood of memories)” and secondly, eases the entire marketing process from “remember” to “purchase”. First time you see something, there is shock, second time, your brain has had time to recover and you are far more likely to act on impulses… the time frame for this might be a few seconds or weeks but this is a process that marketers know very well and take advantage of.

The Bottom Line

Being or listening to extremes isn’t bad, it’s acting on what you are learning that is.

Fear and doubt have no place in my heart and they shouldn’t have a voice in yours neither!

Negative, self-limiting vocabulary

Few things astonish me as much as the number of people “out there” who try to find every reason they can come-up with to limit the joy and challenges they can experience in their one and only life. I can easily suggest that negative, self-limiting vocabulary is an epidemic around the world that is at its worse in developed countries which, to be honest, have the least to complain about. Words such as “I can’t”, “I shouldn’t” and “I’m scares” (and it goes on) should be banned from the minds of people, they would be so much happier for it!

Where do these thoughts come from?

Although some of these limiting words come from within, I have concluded that most of it is generated my media itself. Sadly, this has ruined far too many people, especially females who are told, constantly, on a daily basis that they are not desirable if they don’t have XYZ product, wear XYZ cloths or have XYZ on their face / bodies. Just look at your average magazine and you will see page after page after page degrading women for being too fat, ugly, wrinkled etc… and of course, the solution is the purchase of some useless trinket that will make everything OK again.

Why do we limit ourselves?

This is an incredible world that would take several lifetimes to explore, yet, with the advances that come with the modern lifestyle, few people take advantage of this! So, why do people, on purpose, limit what they can see, experience, taste and hear? The simple reason is FEAR. Fear of the unknown, fear of being stunned, fear of being killed, fear of being poisoned… basically, there are always more reasons NOT to do something than otherwise. I believe it’s in our human nature to explore and experience the world around us, if it wasn’t, we would all still be living in mud houses in Africa and never would have ventured past the Sahara desert those tens of thousands of years ago. It isn’t in our nature to stay in a little cocoon of safety but we have been taught to do this as we replace our emotional comforts with material ones. To put it bluntly, it’s too difficult for most people to leave what they have “accumulated” for any significant period of time as they have invested in things instead of themselves.

So what is the solution?

I have found the solution a long time ago, essentially ignore ALL media that is negative in any way. This is rather easy once you get the hang of it. For instance, I rarely read magazines and when I do, if there is something that is trying to sell me something I don’t “need”, I tune right-out. You do this daily already, how many TV commercials do you remember that you have watched today? I bet you can’t list more than a dozen and that was more due to repetition than impact. Another thing I do is watch NO TV. I get my news online, tunning out advertising is incredibly easy online. I get my video podcasts which have the added benefit of not having any commercials though my iTunes and even better, I am so busy working on my own businesses that I have little time to waste “vegging-out”. Throw-in a tough workout regimen to build-up self-esteem while burning off stress and life really can’t get any better. I am a firm believer that every year or two, you need to make some fundamental changes in your life to keep things interesting.

The Bottom Line

The link between self-esteem and limiting thoughts is a very powerful one that needs daily attention.

I believe the only thing people should fear in life is death but second to that, would have to be traveling into the unknown.

Metaphores and other illusions

Why is traveling into the unknown so scary for most people? Well, imagine stepping into a river full of sharp rocks and trying to feel your way through onto the smooth rocks to cross, now add the fact that you are in a HURRY to cross. This is what traveling into the unknown is like. No matter how slow or methodically you proceed, everything always seems rushed with many things left behind. For instance, you may have lost your job recently and decide to move across the country to a new position in a new city, new lifestyle etc… no matter what, you are going to experience a fundamental shift in your way of living and thinking at least in the short term. Traveling into the unknown can be seen in the same light as jumping into a black abyss, you don’t know where the bottom lies anymore than you know when you will hit it.

Why is the unknown so scary?

Death is scary because it’s a “once in a lifetime even” that you have no control as to when or how it happens. The unknown is much the same, you have no control as to what will happen or when! I have had more than my fair share of “traveling into the unknown” experiences in my life and rarely, no matter the outcome, is it ever a boring “place” to be in. Jumping on a jet to a foreign country with nothing but a backpack, jumping out of a plane to experience skydiving, swimming in a vast and seemingly endless ocean alone… life is full of scary moments! The unknown usually causes an amplification of the normal day-to-day emotions you feel.

Traveling into the unknown is MUST!

I am NOT going to tell you to avoid the unknown, quite the opposite, it’s very healthy to experience things that are well beyond your comfort levels. I truly believe that you have not lived until you have experienced, at least several times, the anxiety, frustration and exhilaration involved with traveling into the unknown. Not knowing where you are heading while being blindfolded is an experience that will allow you to really see what kind of powder you keep in your cannon. You really don’t know yourself until you have pushed yourself beyond your self-imposed limits in life.

The Bottom Line

Traveling into the unknown is scary… so do it often!

Like everybody else, the financial crisis that is enveloping the world at this moment doesn’t seem all that positive of a development but the more I think about it, the more opportunity I see!

Opportunity in Chaos?

Based on some reports, the US economy has caused retirements to drop by over two trillion dollars over the past year. To add insult to injury, people are loosing their jobs, the gas (was) at record highs and foreclosures became the new buzzword for 2008. Is there an opportunity in all this? YOU BET!

Don’t be sad and stare at the wall thinking of all you have lost!

I learned long ago that money has absolutely NO value, sure it’s fun to have a big number… it makes people feel important and is a source of self-esteem but at the end of it all, if anything has been gathered, the value of things, especially monetary ones, should have little to no value to you. They do to me! People worry because their savings have dropped like a brick… take this as an opportunity to re-evaluate your past decisions, change your lifestyle and finally, using this chaos as an excuse, create a new way of being. What I am saying is that this is the perfect excuse to re-invent yourself! You hate your boss, tell him off and leave… can’t stand the commute, sell your car… essentially, allow the chaos of change to invade your life!

Happiness in Chaos?

The only safety in life is chaos, as we have seen with the financial collapse, no matter how hard governments, people and companies work to try to bring stability to our lives, chaos always comes right back into the equation… with interest! Fighting chaos is a loosing battle, either accept it in your life or you must realize that every few years, a recession, dropping house values will come every few years in life. For a very long time, Americans especially, have been living in a bubble of opportunity and took things for granted, not only the citizens but governments and companies as well… this illusion of stability has been broken, I hope forever. If you can’t handle the chaos that gets into every crack and hole of our daily lives, you are better off putting your money in GICs and crossing your fingers.

So… where is the opportunity?

For one, the stock market has dropped almost 40% of it’s value in the past year, stocks are at an incredible low… I would wait a few more months until the recession hits the world economies and go on a buying binge. Crazy advice? Yes! But a 40% discount (probably close to 60% by then) is a once in a generation opportunity out there and there are some VERY profitable and solid companies to be had at fire sale prices! Just look at GM for instance, their stock is now at a 50 year low! Apple is has dropped by more than half from its all time high! When Rome was burning, firemen where in very high demand, as with every enormous paradigm shift within our world, there will be extreme winners and losers. The smart people will look over the chaos and see nothing but opportunity, the losers will hang-on to everything they have until it becomes worthless. For instance, the big depression in the United States created several decades of “stability” and new levels of wealth for the smarter / luckier among us. the Dot Com bubble created, once again, untold billions of wealth as others lost their shirts.

Everything goes in cycles and is based on perception

History repeats itself, do yourself a favor and study-up on the early 1900s through the 1940s, many of the situations the previous generation faced are now being felt by people around the world now… learn NOW what they did to increase the opportunities in their lives, the mistakes very wealthy people did to loose everything and those in-between. Everything goes in cycles and your perception, in the end, makes all the difference as to whether you come-out ahead or behind when un-invited chaos comes back to the table of stability every once in a while.

The Bottom Line

Don’t waste your time being sad, see the opportunity that chaos has brought to your life and seize it before it gets away!

Most people think that free time is just that, well, it isn’t!

What is free time?

From the moment you are conceived, you are in a speeding car heading straight for a brick wall, this brick wall is called death and the road you are on only goes one way. As such, we do not have an infinite amount of time, there are no breaks on this car and it will sadly, never run out of gas. So, most people consider free time as a pause or “break” in life but what most people don’t realize is that this isn’t the case… whether you are sleeping, eating, going to the bathroom or even in love, this car you are in never stops, if anything, it accelerates as you loose track of time.

How to ease off the gas

Now, I used the analogy of a car on purpose, a car can go either fast or slow, even if you are heading towards a brick wall, you an choose, through your lifestyle and decisions in life, to ease off the gas a little. How? Well, don’t smoke, don’t drink, exercise, develop healthy relationships etc… theses might sound like small things but when you consider your body is in a constant state of decay, if you can slow down this process, ever so slightly, the dividends pay off big time later in life. So, if you live an unhealthy lifestyle, including everyday stress that makes your blood pressure rise, time to make some serious changes as, that car, sure isn’t going to stop.

Out of mind doesn’t mean it stops!

Another way people try to fool themselves is that they think that not realizing their own mortality will somehow allow them to escape these mortal coils that bind all of us. More specifically, they somehow think that they will be able to jump-out of the speeding car right before it hits the brick wall. I am sure mankind has tried this since we evolved and so far, considering how many billions of people have died, this approach is doomed to failure. Others deal with their mortality by squeezing every inch of it (and then some) out of everyday by partaking in risky or downright dangerous activities… sure, drinking the devil’s water is fun sometimes but not something that should be done on a regular basis. Basically, whether you wish to admit it or not, your fate will be the same as everybody else’s, rich or poor, educated or otherwise.

So… DON’T WASTE YOUR FREE TIME!

When ever somebody says “time out, you have free time”, take this as meaning you can do as you wish so you might as well dedicated it towards one of three activities:

1) improving your life or the lives of those around you

2) self-reflect on what you can change in your lifestyle in order to “ease off the gas”

3) educate yourself about the world around you

I think if everybody did one of these three little things instead of plopping in front of a television and wasting away hours of their lives on a daily basis… this would wouldn’t not only be far better but people’s lives would be vastly more rewarding in general.

The Bottom Line

You have one life, don’t waste any of it.

Seriously, do you believe in yourself? Do you have the self-confidence and desire to really push yourself outside your normal limits? This is a rather simple question but one of the most important to investigate on your own as it bases the entire foundation of your current life.

Why is belief in self important?

If you believe in yourself, then anything is possible. You have no need for external validation, external praise, external conditioning to pursuit the life of your dreams. You are simply a bird that knows where you are flying to regardless of the terrain below you… you are able to stay on course! If you want to become somebody of great importance on this rock, you MUST believe in your abilities no matter what others say.

The problems that arise from a lack of confidence

Believing in yourself, your abilities, your physical as well as mental being is something that I believe should be taught at soon after one is born. Believing in yourself has such a huge effect on your life as you develop and grow. From your social circle to who you end up spending your live with. If you lack confidence, you will more often than not, take the easy route through life. If you are offered a challenge, it’s always simpler to ask others to help guide you through a situation instead of standing tall and charging forward. I believe it’s important to get information from others but too many people take this to an extreme. They are unable to make a decision in life without talking to somebody to confirm their initial thoughts and inspirations. If you believe in yourself, you are so far ahead of many other people it really isn’t comparable!

What does belief in self bring?

If you belief in yourself, you will not require others to prop-up your self-esteem. You will not be concerned with how others view you nor how they react to your actions to the detriment of your goals. Basically, if you can grow from within instead of asking for help from others to improve yourself, you are an incredibly powerful being capable of turning even the most impossible of dreams into a reality.

Belief is a powerful thing

I must warn you, once you come to the realization that you can do ANYTHING in life without regard for what others may think of you, not only are you powerful but you become the absolute master of your destiny. Seriously, if you don’t need others to confirm your decisions, life suddenly becomes far easier and enjoyable. The reason being, most people what to be around “the same” just like dentists have other dentists as friends. If you truly want to achieve a lot in this, your only life, you have to be willing to drop people who cannot or worse, prevent you from succeeding. Sometimes people stop talking to you because you achieved a great success, you have to realize that this is their primal reaction brought on by jealousy and loss. You are and will become a different person.

How do you come to the point of believing in yourself?

How do you become good at riding a bike or passing a test, you study and practice as much as you can! If you don’t believe in yourself, others cannot help you, this power must be nurtured and grown from within to shine outward. You cannot have others “tell” you or “convince” you to gain self-confidence… you must do this yourself and stand-by it!

The Bottom Line

I am Jon Cantin and I believe in myself!

Well, it has been one month now since I completely stopped using toothpaste, my oral hygiene regimen of rinsing my mouth with baking soda / salt twice a day followed by brushing my teeth with plain water twice a day seems to have actually IMPROVED things!

Stumbling upon a far more effective alternative to mouthwash

I use to use mouthwash but it seems that, after a few hours, the “ickiness” would always return and overnight, well, in the morning I felt like I had drank from a swamp the night before. All those chemicals moving around in my mouth also don’t inspire much confidence considering all the health issues people are having later in life due to environmental and lifestyle choices followed over a lifetime. There HAD to be alternatives, I read a few online articles a few years back and stumbled upon the “salt” rinsing. It’s quite easy, fill a 1/2 cup of hot water and mix in about a tablespoon of salt and a teaspoon of baking soda. The result? Well, the best damn mouthwash you can ever have at a fraction of the price of what is being “marketed” as the best. Throw the rest into an oral irrigator and your mouth will be as clean as an emergency room floor (before the patient comes in of course).

Toothpaste, for all it’s wonders, is actually rather useless

I was brought-up being “marketed” by dentists and businesses that if I don’t use toothpaste, my teeth would fall-out and gingivitis was just around the corner… what a bunch of BS! Standing-up to commercial forces even in the face of conventional wisdom is actually a fantastic habit to have! Most of toothpaste ingredients are geared towards polishing, considering it’s thrown-out a few seconds after being “applied”, it makes you realize how either incredibly potent (ei: dangerous) or useless it really is. Consider toothpaste is a rather recent invention, I can safely say that it isn’t worth the status it has been given.

Results after one month

After one month of the no-toothpaste lifestyle, my gums have went from a slight redness along the gum-line to pink! My mouth always feels fresh and clean even after a meal or a few hours of heavy exercise. Even better… “tartar build-up” is gone and my teeth are actually WHITTER! What can I conclude? Well, I wish I started this regimen 30 years ago! It has saved me money and proven incredibly effective! Before you ask your dentist about following this regimen, realize that he or she, although a professional, is still being marketed rather heavily by companies that want you to use their oral products. Try this regimen for a month, go see your dentist, ask them if they see (or you feel) a difference THEN tell them what you have done!

Is Listerine environmentally friendly?

I have nothing against Listerine or other products but when a far more effective (and cheap) method exists that is environmentally friendly, why are we being marketed bogus junk? Just think of the chemical and logistical footprint that a simple product like Listerine has on the environment? A lot of wasted energy to produce an inferior product… that is mass-produced and marketed as THE BEST when it really falls rather short. I have no qualms about the “chemicals” in my salt/baking-soda mouthwash but who knows the long-term ramifications of the chemicals found in most toothpastes and mouthwashes these days. I think our governments have truly failed us on so many levels, it’s astonishing how much of our daily lives are influenced on a subconscious level by marketing whose focus is on profits rather than co-existing within our environment.

The Bigger Issue: The government doesn’t care

If the government really cared about our health, things such as alcohol, junk food (including TV diners), tobacco products… the list goes on, would simply not be available for consumption much less marketed to us on a daily basis. If the government really cared about the environment, mass-production of useless products when environmentally friendly alternatives existed wouldn’t be profitable. If the government really cared about it’s citizens, it would put a higher priority on physical education (government run gyms, school programs etc) instead of promoting a lifestyle of stagnation. Governments are there to help guide a population regardless of economic considerations but this sadly has changed where financial considerations have a higher priority than of the people it “should” be representing.

The Bottom Line

Only by standing-up against conventional wisdom can truth be discovered.

Anybody who tells you that you cannot do this or that because of “blah, blah, blah” have no idea what they are talking about… NONE! If YOU want to make something happen, it’s up to you and only YOU to make it happen.

Barriers to making things possible

No matter your handicaps, no matter how severe they are, don’t let them get in the way of your dreams. For instance, look at the incredible success that Steve Nash, the NBA player has in his career considering how short he is… sure 6ft3 isn’t short but by NBA standards, he is surrounded by giants! How about Richard Branson? He is dyslexic yet is a self-made multi-billionaire traveling the world and outer space! The world is full of unlikely success stories that blow people away due to their ambitions more than their talent.

Beware of what you wish… it may come true!

More than once in my life, I have experienced both personally and through others that what you wish, even for a small amount of time, may actually come true! The most apt example of this was a few years back when, on a long walk, I was wondering what it would be like to be arrested (completely out of the blue), little did I know that a few minutes this “wish” would come true! My life is full of examples of this along several time lines and I am absolutely sure I am not alone. I am not psychic (this is “impossible”) but I do seem to be rather good at seeing the future of decisions I make now in a flash with very little though involved.

So what is impossible?

To be honest, the only limiting factor for most people is the size of their dreams. If you told somebody a thousand years ago that they would be talking through a small portable box to people on the other side of the world, you would be crucified as insane yet with satellite phones this is possible from ANYWHERE. I have come to the conclusion that EVERYTHING and ANYTHING is possible, screw the laws of physics or other limitations brought-up by “smarter” people… if you think it can happen and put enough sweat and tears into it… it WILL happen.

The more you know, the less you know

Why do I think that even “impossible” things are completely possible no matter what the geniuses in this world say? Well, because they have an incredibly BAD track record. I honestly cannot think of an invention, from the press to the automobile where the geniuses at the time put pressure on the creator to give-up these “silly” and “impossible” thoughts! If you told me you where working on a time machine, I would say your chances of accomplishing this are near zero but NOT zero. Look at Thomas Edison who toyed away for years on a light bulb with endless prototypes before he achieved what the geniuses at the time said was impossible! My friends, if you remember anything from this blog article it’s this, the more somebody knows about a subject, the less they actually know about it.

Why do I say this? Well, knowledge is biased information, no matter its origins, how many times it has been proven, there is always something that is missed or mis-interpreted… throw enough of this stuff together and you end-up with a rather impressive body of knowledge that is so full of holes that it becomes a self-supporting yet rather hollow structure.

Ah, the problem with Religion

This is one of my largest grievances with religion… it doesn’t teach you that “anything” is possible, it puts the explanation of “God” as the answer to EVERY question you don’t know the answer to. How did starts form? Well, God did it. Where do babies come from? Well, God does that. Why did I get a C in my math test? Well, God wanted it to be so. What do you notice? Well, the utter LACK of curiosity. If religion teachings one thing, it isn’t to expand your mind, it’s to accept things as they are and stifle creativity in the young minds that need it the most. How did stars form? Well, this is a question that continues to take generations to discover the answer to yet religion says essentially “don’t bother, God did it and that is all you need to know… move-on”. Even though I say this, I do think it’s ironic that our understanding of DNA comes from a monk who studied peas, that religion played a pivotal role in the development of the printing press and many other things we take for granted as scientific fact. Hence, my indecision on this matter which will probably continue until my last breath. I am well beyond the question of whether there is a God or not, I have “advanced” now towards thinking of whether we are better off with or without religion.

The Bottom Line

Nothing is impossible unless you allow it to be so.

Update: This past week a “man” gave birth to a baby and a 72 year old woman gave birth as well… both thanks to the advances in medical knowledge. Both of these where considered completely “impossible” just a few years ago.