Life’s Little Instruction Book
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taken from a sweet girl. Find her @ the blog URL given below:

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· Have a firm handshake.
· Look people in the eye.
· Sing in the shower.
· Own a great stereo system.
· If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.
· Keep secrets.
· Never give up on anybody.
Miracles happen everyday.
· Always accept an outstretched hand.
· Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend to be. No one can tell the difference.
· Whistle.
· Avoid sarcastic remarks.
· Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 per cent of all your happiness or misery.
· Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.
· Lend only those books you never care to see again.
· Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all that they have.
· When playing games with ! children, let them win.
· Give people a second chance, but not a third.
· Be romantic.
· Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
· Loosen up. Relax. Except for rare life-and-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.
· Don’t allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It’s there for your convenience, not the caller’s.
· Be a good loser.
· Be a good winner.
· Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.
· When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.
· Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.
· Keep it simple.
· Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.
· Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.
· Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No Regrets
· Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the one’s you did.
· Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.
· Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.
· Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.
· Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital; you need only stay a few minutes.
· Begin each day with some of your favorite music.
· Once in a while, take the scenic route.
· Send a lot of Valentine cards. Sign them, ‘Someone who thinks you’re terrific.’
· Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.
· Keep a note pad and pencil on your bed-side table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 a.m.
· Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.
· Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.
· Make someone’s day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind you.
· Become someone’s hero.
· Marry only for love.
· Count your blessings.
· Compliment the meal when you’re a guest in someone’s home.
· Wave at the children on a school bus.
· Remember that 80 per cent of the success in any job is based on your ability to deal with people.
· Don’t expect life to be fair.

The Jewish, Christian and Islamic ideas of the Garden of Eden and Heaven may be interpreted as forms of utopianism, especially in their folk-religious forms. Such religious “utopias” are often described as “gardens of delight”, implying an existence free from worry in a state of bliss or enlightenment. They postulate existences free from sin, pain, poverty and death, and often assume communion with beings such as angels or the houri. In a similar sense the Buddhist concept of Nirvana may be thought of as a kind of utopia.

However these ideas are more frequently the bases for religious utopias, as members attempt to establish/reestablish on Earth a society which reflects the virtues and values they believe have been lost or which await them in the Afterlife.

In the United States and Europe during the Second Great Awakening of the nineteenth century and thereafter, many radical religious groups formed utopian societies. They sought to form communities where all aspects of people’s lives could be governed by their faith. Among the best-known of these utopian societies was the Shaker movement, which originated in England in the 18th century but moved to America shortly after its founding.

There are yet other kind of utopia called scientific and technological utopida that are set in the future, when it is believed that advanced science and technology will allow utopian living standards; for example, the absence of death and suffering; changes in human nature and the human condition. These utopian societies tend to change what “human” is all about. Technology has affected the way humans have lived to such an extent that normal functions, like sleep, eating or even reproduction, has been replaced by an artificial means. Other kinds of this utopia envisioned, include a society where human has struck a balance with technology and it is merely used to enhance the human living condition like the Star Trek. In place of the static perfection of a utopia, libertarian transhumanists envision an “extropia”, an open, evolving society allowing individuals and voluntary groupings to form the institutions and social forms they prefer.

A variation on this theme was found earlier in the theories of Eugenics. Believing that many traits were hereditary in nature, the eugenists believed that not only healthier, more intelligent race could be bred, but many other traits could be selected for, including “talent”, or against, including drunkness and criminality. This called for “positive eugenics” encouraging those with good genes to have children, and “negative eugenics” discouraging those with bad genes, or preventing them altogether by confinement or forcible sterilization.

Opposing this optimism is the prediction that advanced science and technology will, through deliberate misuse or accident, cause environmental damage or even humanity’s extinction. Critics advocate precautions against the premature embrace of new technologies.

Common forms of egalitarianism include economic egalitarianism (also known as material egalitarianism), moral egalitarianism, legal egalitarianism, luck egalitarianism, political egalitarianism, gender egalitarianism, racial egalitarianism and opportunity egalitarianism.

* Material egalitarianism stresses equality with respect to material possessions.

in economic and social opportunity.

The United States Declaration of Independence included a kind of moral and legal egalitarianism. Because “all men are created equal”, each person is to be treated equally under the law. Originally this statement excluded women, slaves and other groups, but, over time, universal egalitarianism has won wide adherence and is a core component of modern civil rights policies.

Different kinds of egalitarianism can sometimes conflict, while in other situations they may be indispensable to each other. For instance, communism is an egalitarian doctrine, according to which everyone is supposed to enjoy material equality. However, because material inequality is pervasive in the current international economy, something must be done to remove it. Since those who enjoy the greatest material wealth are not likely to wish to part with it, some form of coercive mechanism must exist in the transition period before communism. But if the coercive powers of redistribution are vested in some people and not in others, a conflict of interest will take place, and inequalities of political power would emerge. History has shown, in the former Soviet Union for instance, that people who are granted coercive redistributive powers often abuse them. Indeed, those with political power were known to redistribute vastly unequal shares of material resources to themselves, thereby completely confounding the justification for their unequal political status. Therefore, most Marxists now agree that communism can only be achieved if the coercive powers of redistribution needed during the transitional period are vested in a democratic body whose powers are limited by various checks and balances, in order to prevent abuse. In other words, they argue that political egalitarianism is indispensable to material egalitarianism. Meanwhile, other defenders of material egalitarianism have rejected Marxist communism in favor of such views as libertarian socialism, which does not advocate the transitional use of the state as a means of redistribution.

The English word egalitarianism is derived from the French word égal, meaning equal or level.

http://www.iwp.edu/ – Institute of World Politics

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