The Antidote for Peace on Earth

Christmas came and went like most holidays in Singapore. Year after year, holiday after holiday, we emerge the following day as if everything that happened the day before is like a dream.

And while churches all over the world sang carols and praying for peace on earth, there is little done except to rely on shoody politicians to make it happen - as if that's really their problem to begin with.

So are we doomed? Maybe not, if we can do what this picture wants us to do:

On the micro level, we want peace in the form of certainty and stability. We crave for assurance and the promise that things will be better. Ironically, we choose to attain that by voicing our displeasure, or contempt in the most aggressive fashion.

2012 is fast approaching so regardless of whether the world will really end on that prophesied date will very much depends on the indivdual especially that of the politicians, military officers, and those in power.

So peer into the dark sky this new year eve and reflect on your life while you gaze upon the stars and the moon, because if the Mayans are right, there wont be another chance to do that again - next year end.

TENGA and the Urges of Temptation

One way or another we will feel that urge or temptation and like it or not, we have to deal with it.

Some sees it as a test from God. Others interpret it as a scheme from the evil one. Whatever it is, we are required to respond: to give in or to resist.

Psychologists will prefer to explain it as a struggle between the id, ego and the super-ego. According to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory of personality, the id represents the dark, chaotic aspect of us which seeks pleasure without regard to morals, or consequences. And is driven by instincts and impulses, and seeks instant self-gratification.



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In contrast, the super-ego is the complete opposite of id, and helps us to defend our sense of right and wrong, shame and guilt. It also stores our internalized moral standards and ideals that we acquire and shaped from our parents and the society.

The ego mediates between the clashes of id and the super-ego. It regulates the id to allow for our survival and well-being - without violating the moral principles and against the external world.

It is not hard to imagine the temptations that life presents us, and it may strain our ego's ability to hold on to those moral teachings that we holds dear.

Perhaps this is the reason why we hear of how celebrity figures falling into temptations... think Tiger Wood, Jack Neo, Wayne Rooney. They gave in to sexual temptation. Perhaps if they have some way to deal with their sex drives these stories will not exist?

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Not here to judge but maybe they have not heard of TENGA.

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