This is a free flowchart program with many useful features.
I especially like, that I can add text to arrows, which is fixed at the arrows, even if the objects with the arrows are moved around.
With this feature it is possible, to create concept maps with presentation quality.
Also morphological boxes can be constructed with it and many other useful structured graphical representations.
yEdit is free of charge for dowload at:
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For other programs on this website one has to pay.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Wisdom of Mankind: What can we Learn from it ?
Religions, ideologies and also philosophy have taught high ideals, but in practice the organizations, which represented these ideals, have done the most horrible crimes in the history of mankind.
Therefore in the time of renaissance and later in the time of enlightenment, men have developed an attitude, to negate all the teachings of them.
In the 19 th century Marxism and in 20 th Fascism and Leninism, Maoism etc. have done the most horrible crimes in the history of mankind.
Therefore many people follow now the ideology of atheism, which is nothing else as also an ideology, because it pretends to know at least, that there does not exist something like a God, which is impossible to prove or disprove, as already the german philosopher Kant in the 18. century demonstrated.
Also natural science cannot teach us anything about this question, because it cannot investigate it.
Therefore we should take a pragmatic attitude and differentiate between the organizations ( which are dominated by men ) and the teachings of wise women and men.
Perhaps we can learn something from them, which may help us, to lead a happy life.
Therefore I will now and then write about the wisdom of mankind, without making any difference, if it comes from ancient times of the Aborigines in Australia, the Indians in America, the Indian Hinduism, Buddhism etc.
Only the arguments count.
So lets start with a teaching of Laotse, the wise teacher of Taoism in ancient China:
One of his famous teachings was:
"The soft will defeat the hard."
He has used several of those apparently unlogical teachings, to overcome our limited thinking, which is determined by prejudices.
And we must get aware of our prejudices and overcome them, so that we can really solve problems and get creative.
We know, that Laotse is right in at least several cases:
1. water can destroy the hardest rock
2. one man, without any arms like Ghandi, could defeat the British Empire, full with military weapons
What have both cases in common ?
Persistence.
Never give up, overcome any frustration and go on.
And that is the attitude, which every inventor and entrepreneur needs.
We will experience a lot of frustration, but we have to overcome it, to get successful in the end.
Of course, we should carefully analyse every defeat and learn from it and not just go on stubbornly. That could lead us into the wrong direction.
We must critically analyze our motivation and collect any needed information, so that we can make rational decisions.
But then we should overcome our frustration and go on.
"The soft will defeat the hard".
Therefore in the time of renaissance and later in the time of enlightenment, men have developed an attitude, to negate all the teachings of them.
In the 19 th century Marxism and in 20 th Fascism and Leninism, Maoism etc. have done the most horrible crimes in the history of mankind.
Therefore many people follow now the ideology of atheism, which is nothing else as also an ideology, because it pretends to know at least, that there does not exist something like a God, which is impossible to prove or disprove, as already the german philosopher Kant in the 18. century demonstrated.
Also natural science cannot teach us anything about this question, because it cannot investigate it.
Therefore we should take a pragmatic attitude and differentiate between the organizations ( which are dominated by men ) and the teachings of wise women and men.
Perhaps we can learn something from them, which may help us, to lead a happy life.
Therefore I will now and then write about the wisdom of mankind, without making any difference, if it comes from ancient times of the Aborigines in Australia, the Indians in America, the Indian Hinduism, Buddhism etc.
Only the arguments count.
So lets start with a teaching of Laotse, the wise teacher of Taoism in ancient China:
One of his famous teachings was:
"The soft will defeat the hard."
He has used several of those apparently unlogical teachings, to overcome our limited thinking, which is determined by prejudices.
And we must get aware of our prejudices and overcome them, so that we can really solve problems and get creative.
We know, that Laotse is right in at least several cases:
1. water can destroy the hardest rock
2. one man, without any arms like Ghandi, could defeat the British Empire, full with military weapons
What have both cases in common ?
Persistence.
Never give up, overcome any frustration and go on.
And that is the attitude, which every inventor and entrepreneur needs.
We will experience a lot of frustration, but we have to overcome it, to get successful in the end.
Of course, we should carefully analyse every defeat and learn from it and not just go on stubbornly. That could lead us into the wrong direction.
We must critically analyze our motivation and collect any needed information, so that we can make rational decisions.
But then we should overcome our frustration and go on.
"The soft will defeat the hard".
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