Winter is giving us a last blast in February and comes in like a lion for March until about mid March, when temps will become average. But, the sun shines already and that is better than mild, but rainy and gloomy weather.

Today, last day in the week and of the month, takes us to three weeks from Spring Equinox. That is something all the people in the northern hemisphere look forward to and celebrate since days of old.

Yesterday Ada called just before I started supper, so I met here at the local coffee shop and we chatted for about an hour. I was just back from my visit with Sharen and my stop at London Drugs, where I informed myself about tablet computers.

Apparently, the Android OS is only suitable for running applications that can be bought in the various web stores and does not appear to be a general operating system. That makes it a no-no for me, too restrictive, while you also have google ogling you all the time. So, it appears that it may become Asus with Windows, or a Windows Pro tablet, as long as I don’t go over the five hundred dollar mark.

Lunch with Herman lasted the usual two hours, which we fill with politics, religion, old country memories and this time with comments on Buruma’s book. We also explored the fact that New Thought organisations and ministers had so little to say about the calamities that struck humankind in the two world wars. This, in spite of the fact that the very early treatments and cures found there origins in the attempts to help soldiers returning from the battle fields of WW-1; more below under Writings.

Continuing the theme from my Diary:

It is as if the New Thought adage of ‘eliminate the negative, emphasize the positive and don’t mess with mister in between’ was the guiding light for the ministers and leaders in that movement and is still current to this day. The Unity movement has escaped this distorted view, with the Fillmore’s addressing human hardships in the letters of Myrtle at the time.

Life philosophies cannot be viable when they don’t address human hardship, for the simple reason that people will leave, when such needs go covered over or worse, blamed on the victim. Such cold comfort is very far removed from the teaching found in the New Testament and runs counter to Christian practice.

All experience is valid experience.

The full range of human experience must be admitted to when one wants to have a robust philosophy or belief framework. My adage is: ‘All experience is valid experience.’ As such, none of it should be dismissed or denied, but of course, must still be subjected to evaluation.

Excluding pre-selected knowledge and/or experience from one’s life philosophy leads to distortions in one’s model of the human experience. This results in a ‘running off the road’ in the long term. Comprehensiveness is insurance against biases entering into the reference framework, which then in turn reduces the incidence of faulty judgements and wrong measures
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