Who would you trust?

Would you trust, the Atheist who loves his family, his country, donates to charity, is always honest, does not cheat on his wife, is hardworking and never has a bad thing to say about anybody?

Or, would you trust the person who always goes to his house of worship, prays all the time, always professes his love and faith in God but cheats on his wife, is proud and boastful, lies to his friends and has no integrity in his work and in his financial dealings?

We all make mistakes and we all sin. (Sin is the Greek word pertaining to archery which means "to miss the mark", ie. to miss the bulls eye.)

My point is that Piety does not equate goodness and trustworthiness.

We should trust people who do the work of God even if they don't believe in Him/Her and not the person who professes great faith in God but does not walk the talk.

If you are buying a piano...

If you are thinking of buying a new piano and trying to decide whether to buy a digital electric piano or an acoustic piano, let me offer this advice to help you decide.

If you are into the bells and whistles, synthesizer sounds, auto accompaniment and stuff like that, then get a digital piano.

But if you are into just playing the piano and enjoying the natural acoustic sounds from this lovely instrument, then just buy an acoustic piano.

Space wise, the footprint is about the same, both instruments take up about the same amount of footspace.

Also, an acoustic piano does not consume any electricity (except for the small amount you may use for a heater/dehumidifier) so that will save you money in the long run and not add anymore to your carbon footprint.

I am not against using synthesizers of computers for music making if that is what you want to do. What I am saying is that if you just want to play the piano, then the acoustic piano is best.

When there is a power blackout and none of your other toys work, you can sit in the dark and enjoy making music on your acoustic piano.

Playing the piano is my most favorite thing in the world to do....er wait...except eating...and sleeping, looking out at the ocean, looking at the stars in the sky and did I mention eating and sleeping? Ok rephrase, playing the piano is one of my most favorite things in the world to do.

It really happifies* me.

* yes, its a real word in the Oxford.

Economic Growth or Save The Planet?

When government leaders in the world say to us that we have to continue to strive for economic growth and they also ask us to do whatever we can so save the planet and halt global warming, I feel like asking...which admonition do they really want us heed?

The only way to save the world is to slow down spending, teach people to recycle stuff, or repair stuff instead of always replacing broken appliances, educate people to not want so many material products so that we will use less natural resources which continue to heavily pollute with toxins and waster products which harm the Earth as well as all living things.

But when you do this (buy less), you will slow down the economy, which people also don't want...so as far I can see, unless leaders in the world are willing to entertain the notion of slowing down economic growth, their calls for all of us to save the planet are just LIP SERVICE!

Without the implementation of an earnest plan to do whatever we need to do to save our environment, our planet will continue to get more polluted and more depleted of natural resources and species until the earth become inhospitable for human life.

That is why we have to do our own part to buy less, use less, waste less, produce less waste products, reduce emissions etc.,

Check out this video to understand why we have to do something on an individual basis. We have to collectively get our leaders to really take the issue of environment very seriously.

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