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At some time in the past I blogged about the various solar cycles that come into play when the temperature of the Earth is involved, but I hadn't been paying attention to the most important of those cycles, the Sunspot Cycle. The Sunspot Cycle has been shown to correlate closely with the Earth's climatic cycles, and there is a known causal link between the two. This cycle has also been known for hundreds of years, and astronometers have expanded their knowledge as time has passed. That is to say ...

Psychological Considerations in Winter Coats

Living in an area that has been frequented by part of the Polar Vortex this Winter has given me the opportunity to observe the varied ways that people dress for chilly weather. As anyone who lives in a chilly region knows, there is considerable variation in how people dress for Winter days. Through the decades I have tried many sorts of coat, and I have found little difference in warmth among them. The materials, thickness, etc. seem to ...

Peace be on you…When individuals’ moral strenghthens or weaknesses spread to others community improves or gets corrupted. The role of environment is very important in growth or decline of moral and spiritual practices. It is like effect of soil, climate and other factors on a seed.


Problems in community affect individuals. Communal awareness is very important. Ahmadiyya Jama'at should use various means to check communal weaknesses, according to Hazrat Musleh Mo'ud (r.a.) ...

Someone I am acquainted with made an interesting suggestion. He said that he would turn me in as Joseph Mengele and collect the reward. I pointed out that I don’t look even a day over ninety years old, and he mentioned that some of Mengele’s experiments were with transplantation of flesh and he would have rejuvenated himself. Well he hasn’t tried it yet, so I looked up Mengele and learned that the body of a drowned man was identified as Mengele. I don’t know if they used DNA at the time, but there ...

I have a mind that tends to associate things. Today it is rather chilly and windy around here, and I happened to notice a guy with a nose ring. I don’t usually think about piercings, but my mind put together the coolth and the metal in his nose, and I wondered how that might feel, not that I really want to know that. That brought to frostbite.

I usually forget such vagrant ideas when I get into doing something else, but this afternoon I spent about twenty minutes outside, and it ...