Kids. Kids are life’s great reset button. Before you have kids you might look back on certain events of your life and think, “I shouldn’t have done that”. Maybe it was a bad relocation, a poorly executed career choice, losing a lot of money on a venture, losing a “soul mate” to a stupid mistake, [...]
Filed under: Life, Observations, Philosophy by Cody Riddar on Wednesday, January 9, 2013 | Social tagging: children > family > regrets > reset button
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1) Freedom is having the right to lead your own life as you see fit, up until it infringes on someone else’s right to do the same. 2) Subsequently, freedom is also having the right to lead your own life, without being infringed upon by others. If we were all accountable enough to [...]
Filed under: Philosophy, Politics, Thoughts by Cody Riddar on Monday, January 9, 2012 | Social tagging: freedom
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Life is good. Living it isn’t always a bed of roses, but being alive and breathing is good. Sure, you may have a problem or three right now, and those problems might be interfering with the plans you had for your life; but the bottom line is that living and breathing in itself is opportunity. [...]
Filed under: Life, Philosophy, Suggestions, Thoughts by Cody Riddar on Friday, August 26, 2011 | Social tagging: algorithm > happiness > improvement > lessons > motto > profound > words to live by
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So it just occurred to me, if you were to describe the political ideology that exists within the average mid-to-large sized business, it would probably be a Totalitarianism. I’m not complaining about that, because if you think about it, that’s kind of the way it has to be. Businesses exist solely to make money and [...]
Filed under: Philosophy, Politics, Society, Thoughts by Cody Riddar on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 | Social tagging: america > anarchy > corporatocracy > federation > republic > sleep > sleeping > totalitarianism
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I read something awesomely funny on Ruminations.com a couple weeks ago, and I love repeating it so I’ll share. And then of course, deconstruct. Whenever someone says “I’m not book smart, but I’m street smart”, all I hear is “I’m not real smart, but I’m imaginary smart”. Having met many people who make the claim [...]
Filed under: Life, Philosophy, Society, Theories, Thoughts by Cody Riddar on Monday, November 9, 2009 | Social tagging: book smarts > intellect > intelligence > street smarts > wisdom
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There are a few things you’re never to discuss at the dinner table: Religion, Politics, or Money. So if you’re eating right now, bookmark and come back later… The reason you’re not supposed to discuss such things are two-fold. One, people are passionate about all three of these subjects; having formed their opinions over a [...]
Filed under: Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Society, Theories by Cody Riddar on Tuesday, September 1, 2009 | Social tagging: humanism > ideology > philosophy > Politics > religion
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