A Thought in Time

When I originally started this weblog, I began with a debate that was supposed to be posted on my website.

It was a new title that I had just seeded on helium.com. Unfortunately, that debate format mysteriously disappeared from my weblog yesterday, leaving an empty webpage.

Please note that the webpage, "A Thought in Time" will not disappear.

The question that I had asked there and am re-asking here is, "Should people who are smoking while driving be ticketed and fined?"

The debate is now published on helium.com along with a number of responses to it, including my response, posted yesterday. I take the stand that maybe it is time there was some research done in this respect.

Ask yourself what people are doing when they have accidents and then add your comments about smoking while driving, if you wish to do so.

As thinkers, each one of us is called to think for 'the good' or for 'the betterment of humankind'.

Does it sound strange that we are compelled to think about 'the well-being of others', when our thoughts are our own? We do have the ability to think beyond ourselves.

On another note, there was an earthquake reported, west of Vancouver Island, B.C. yesterday, around noon. Initial reports said that it was 6.7 on the Richter scale and then a later report said 6.4. Supposedly, there is minimal damage and there was no tsunami expected at that time, even though the tremors were felt in Vancouver and as far east as Kelowna, B.C.

Does this concern me in Ontario? Yes, definitely, because I have family living there, approximately three thousand miles away from northern Ontario.

The events of everyday life are always on our minds, in one way or another and they do affect the way we feel.

Such is "A Thought in Time".