JORGE RODRIGUES SIMAO

Have you ever considered that your perception of reality could be wrong? If you haven't, this is a pretty good sign that it is. One of the great creations of the human mind is a perception of reality that has absolutely no relationship to it. Thus, you have to be careful with what you perceive as reality. Any misrepresentation of it is a lie. This will cause you all sorts of big problems in life, particularly when you perceive circumstances more much more serious than they really are.

'This attack is just the start': ISIS claims responsibility for terror atrocities in Paris that killed at least 129 people and warns there is more to come 

November 13 2015 Jihadi John Beheader ISIS ISIL DAESH Killed USA Drone Strike

Why Isis will hate it if we start calling them Daesh

HojeMacau

“ISIS has made its name on the marketing of savagery, evolving its message to sell a strange but potent new blend of utopianism and appalling carnage to a worldwide audience, documenting a carefully manipulated version of its military campaigns, including its bloody 2014 rampage across much of Iraq and Syria. ISIS is using beheadings as a form of marketing, manipulation, and recruitment, determined to bring the public display of savagery into our lives, trying to instill in us a state of terror.”

ISIS: The State of Terror

Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger

A mais importante questão que é colocada pelo mundo perante os horrendo atentados de Paris, é de saber, como é possível que os principais serviços secretos do planeta são incapazes de antecipar a estratégia do autoproclamado “Estado Islâmico (EI) ” que Estado não é, e de Islâmico nada têm, e que é tão diferente de outros grupos de jihadistas? O ano passado, quando o Papa Francisco falou de incidentes de uma III Guerra Mundial que tinha começado, tendo os principais líderes mundiais, permanecido num diplomático e respeitoso silêncio, pois pensaram que melhor seria não ridicularizar o Vaticano.

One of the realities of modem life is that we all have many things we would like to pursue - but limited time for pursuing them. We have to make decisions as to how we spend our time; not only in how much we work, but also in how we utilize our leisure time. Irrespective of our income and net worth, we can be truly prosperous only if we have a good balance between work and play.

It may appear that the most effective way to put more time in your life is to rush more during the day and try to do as many things as possible in the shortest possible time. Perhaps you have tried this many times and discovered that you always feel even more time deprived. No wonder that an old Dutch proverb contends, "The hurrier we go, the behinder we get."

"Show me a hero," quipped American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, "and I will write you a tragedy." The ultimate tragedy, however, is the vast majority of modem hero-worshipers in the Western world who revere false heroes. So much so, that hero is one of the most misused words in the English language. As a matter of course hero today is mostly applied to people who do well in sports or in the financial world or in show business and have gotten a lot of publicity. Unfortunately, the modem American hero is somebody whom we adore, respect, worship, or idolize for all the wrong reasons. With this in mind, it's best to be careful with your heroes. Don't put any of them on a pedestal. After all, no one - even a true hero - deserves to be there.