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Friendship Goals

Relationships need to be nurtured with kind words and restraining oneself from speaking harsh ones if need be. Only then they take root and a prime value or longevity is established. There need not be negative feelings creeping into such a beautiful rendition of love. As a plant is grown and nurtured while it is still a sapling, the right mix of manure with warmth helps relationships like friendships grow a great deal. It blossoms into one fruitful tree with moments worth remembering and cherishable. Distance and physical absence doesn't matter. One can remain best of friends with everyone if value is offered. This is the same with every love and warmth seeking individual. One should strive to be remembered in blissful terms. Heavenly and spiritual goals are thus too. Pick any one.

Changing Goal Posts: Objective or Subjective Viewpoint?

 The debate rages on in some circles about the objectivity and subjectivity of moral values and their viewpoint. Though this unbridled duel can go on and on, there are still some noteworthy points to ponder upon. Given the enormous volume of pages this debate can fill and all the inquisitive minds it can garner, there can be an effort to keep this optimum and brief. Firstly, in order that some moral values have come to be existent, there has to be some scale or reference or standard or measure to evaluate them. This standard measure or gold standard is called good and evil from time immemorial: there is divine power or God and the evil power. This reference plows down the debate that something very objective existed from eternity. It is the absolute truth or the Ancient of Days. His viewpoints don't falter or change. Subjectivity is not related to him and does not exist. He or God does not change. Everything exists for him. There is nothing dead and everything for him is living. Su...