It remains to be seen how Ilkka Paananen and Co. can maintain their operational principles in the long run when interests divide. It is sure that there will be partners, who think that paying taxes is stupid when on can avoid to pay them. However the viewpoint Paananen and Co. put forth strengthens my impression…
In the middle of October I was very surprised to read news about the acquisition between a Finnish video game development company, Supercell and a Japanese telecommunications and Internet corporation SoftBank and a video game company GungHo. The acquisition brought the Finnish counterparts 1,1 billion (11*100 million) euros. The news surprised me, because I had…
In the last decades I have often wondered why are mathematics and physics considered as natural sciences, although it seems that they have as little to do with nature as economics, which describes the relationships of money. Is based on human thoughts so to speak. Chemistry has obviously direct connection to nature, while it studies…
I watched in May the BBC documentary Inside the Saudi Kingdom, in which the Saudi Arabian crown prince Saud bin Abdul Muhsin tells how the consciousness expansion of people and individualization is changing the Islamic society. As I was watching the documentary it reminded me of my text ‘Living a Balanced Life on Own Conditions’…
The Finnish (former) prime minister Jyrki Katainen spoke about the factors of social and cultural change as he opened a meeting of the ministers of the National Coalition Party (Kokoomus) on the 14th, August 2013. He saw the thing from the perspective of the Finnish society, but the changes are worldwide: all over the world…
The so called constitutional states make more and more regulations and formats in which people should conform to. Everything begins to repeat itself, pro forma. I was in this kind of situation last year as I asked myself a simple question: Who am I? One year ago as I was planning this blog my biggest…
The Finnish interior minister, Päivi Räsänen became the eyesore of the media last week when she said in her speech in the summer festival of the Finnish Lutheran Mission that when the worldly law and the law of God conflict we should obey God’s word. I think this is rather a no-brainer and I didn’t…
In the Thrive-movie David Icke talks about the greatest prison of people: the fear what other people think (1:18:10 on video timeline). People have been brought up to become guards for each other. Those, who step too far from the norm and conventional rules are forced through wordless agreement back into the old rut again….
At the turn of the year I divided my texts into two categories: There are writings, which tell my story (Glow in the Darkness) and writings, in which I dig deeper into myself and our society and try to see my place as a part of the whole (Wings of Thought).On January 15th, 2013 I…
In his documentary ‘Civilization: Is the West History’ (pt 6) the historian Niall Ferguson talks about the influence of the Protestant (Christian) work ethic on the economic growth in the western countries. The relation between religion and economy was studied by Max Weber, who wrote a book about the ‘holy alliance’ of Protestantism and economic…
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