Where there's music, there can be love ! ! !

New Post (38) : Where there's music there can be love ! ! !

Here's a collection of what some all time great minds have had to say about music: (reflect)...

“Music is the universal language of mankind”

“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

“Music is an outburst of the soul.”

“Without music, life would be an error.”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent”

“Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without”

“Music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.”

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.”

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music”

“Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul”

“I despise a world which does not feel that music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy”

“Where words fail, music speaks.”

“Where there's music there can be love”.

Any commentary on these thoughts would be quite …(well)…silly !

Charlie Brown

6.8 Billion and counting…

New Post (37) : 6.8 Billion and counting…

The bunnies are multiplying like---“all is well”.

LESS WILL HAVE TO BE THE NEW MORE.

There are 6.8 billion people already on the planet.
(…and growing unabated)

Even if the population clock stopped ticking today, we are (already) consuming way beyond the earth’s capacity to provide.

As the population (and means as well) expands, for developing nations, their historically meager slice of the consumption pie will expand. As a corollary---For developed nations, their slice of the pie will contract.

The growth of consumption is (only) the (visible) manifestation of the population problem.

The bunnies have to be persuaded to take it easy and slow down.
But that in ---most--- parts of the world is : Politically incorrect.

If we do not slow down, nature will slow us down.

Recommended further reading(exploration) on(of) the subject:
"The psycho-social stress implications of crowding", (which) has been the subject of much rigorous scientific study---on mice as subjects.

Charlie Brown

Islamic banking. Here to stay in the USA ?

New Post (36) : Islamic banking. Here to stay in the USA ?

1. Islamic banking (we are told) works on the principle of ZERO interest.

2. Now get this…
Quote (open) from a recent news item :
The U.S. Federal Reserve kept short-term interest rates at a record low Tuesday after a meeting of the central bank's closely-followed open market committee.
The Fed has kept the rate between zero and 0.25 percent since Dec. 2008 to encourage America's fledgling economic recovery.
It made no change to its key pledge to keep rates "exceptionally low" for an "extended period."
"The pace of economic recovery is likely to be modest in the near term," the statement said in a reiteration of previously reserved expectations.
The Fed’s decision came as the economy remains weak and inflation is very low, running at a 1.4 percent annual pace, MarketWatch reported. Since raising interest rates could encourage consumers to save, the central bank must be careful to continue to encourage spending.
Expectations are for rates to remain in the zero to 0.25 percent range until mid-2011.
Quote (close) from a recent news item.

You may want to run an independent Search on : Fed keeps key interest rate at record low near zero ...for more news reports on the subject,

3. So---What’s the difference between an Islamic ZERO% and an American 0.25%. (treat that as a………well………….rhetorical question)

Begs the question: Islamic banking. Here to stay in the USA ?

Charlie Brown