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Peso sinks to another record low of ₱63.615:$1 as speculators test BSP tolerance

The peso slid to a fresh historic-low of ₱63.615 against the greenback on Friday, Oct. 23, from the previous record low of ₱63.52 last Thursday, Oct. 22. Read more

What could happen to Earth in the future?

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By Klaus Döring

October 24, 2026

Our planet’s incredible biodiversity is under threat. Deforestation, habitat destruction, and pollution are leading to the extinction of countless plant and animal species. Ecosystem imbalance: The extinction of even a single species can disrupt an entire ecosystem.

Welcome to the future! An increasingly globalized humanity is faced with climate change, dwindling resources, overpopulation, and technological upheaval. Diverging paths for humans and transhumans, eco-technic societies dominating the globe, and the accelerating colonization of space are among the possibilities.

Mother Earth provides the plants, animals, birds, and fish that give their lives to feed and clothe human beings, while trees, plants, and soil provide us with shelter, warmth, and a way to grow some of our food. Insects ensure that our plants are pollinated and assist with their growth.

What is happening to Earth right now in 2026? Earth’s average temperature is approaching 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels. Climate models have warned of an increasing likelihood of reaching or exceeding that threshold.

What is happening to our Earth in 2026? The strength of solar activity will help determine how severe space weather becomes. Powerful solar flares or coronal mass ejections can cause problems here on Earth, too.

Future changes are expected to include a warmer atmosphere, a warmer and more acidic ocean, higher sea levels, and larger changes in precipitation patterns. The extent of future climate change depends on what we do now to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The more we emit, the greater the future changes will be.

How can we save our Earth? Protecting our planet starts with simple things we can do to help protect it.

Reduce, reuse, and recycle. Cut down on what you throw away. Volunteer for cleanups in your community.

Conserve water. Shop wisely. Use long-lasting light bulbs. Plant a tree.

Geologist Ed Mathez commented: “I wish I could tell you what the future will bring, but no one knows for sure how global warming will play out.

“In fact, not knowing is one of the problems. Global warming is a significant risk to society. On the one hand, we do not know exactly what will happen. On the other hand, we realize that what could happen could be serious. And these consequences could affect different parts of the world in different ways.

“For example, there could be long periods of low rainfall in a particular region. The western United States is one area that is at particular risk to widespread drought.”

Humans’ negative impact on the environment is nothing new. We have always refused to maintain a balance with nature.

We are responsible for the climate crisis we are facing.

I see climate change happening, and I see it getting worse all the time. This makes me wonder what the future is going to look like for us. We have failed to realize that climate change directly affects us and our basic rights, such as the rights to food, clean air, clean water, education, and development. Temperatures are rising, natural disasters are becoming more frequent and severe, and deforestation continues…

There is no us without Mother Nature.

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Was bedeutet eigentlich echte Freiheit?

Viele Menschen glauben, Freiheit bedeute, tun und lassen zu können, was sie möchten. Sie suchen Unabhängigkeit in äußeren Umständen, finanzieller Sicherheit oder der Möglichkeit, ihre Wünsche uneingeschränkt auszuleben. Doch wie frei ist ein Mensch wirklich, wenn er gleichzeitig Gefangener seiner Ängste, Begierden und unbewussten Gewohnheiten bleibt?

Echte Freiheit beginnt nicht im Außen, sondern in unserem Inneren. Sie entsteht dort, wo wir aufhören, uns von jeder Emotion, jedem Gedanken und jeder äußeren Erwartung beherrschen zu lassen.

Die hermetische Weisheit lehrt, dass der Mensch erst dann zunehmend frei wird, wenn er seine eigene geistige Natur erkennt und Verantwortung für sein Bewusstsein übernimmt. Die Wissenschaft des Bewusstseins eröffnet einen Weg, auf dem wir lernen, zwischen unserem wahren Wesen und den wechselnden Erscheinungen unserer Persönlichkeit zu unterscheiden.

Freiheit bedeutet dabei keineswegs, keine Gefühle mehr zu besitzen oder sich von der Welt zurückzuziehen. Vielmehr entwickeln wir die Fähigkeit, bewusst zu entscheiden, anstatt lediglich auf äußere Reize zu reagieren.

In der Hermetik Akademie wird dieser Prozess durch praktische Selbsterkenntnis, Disziplin und Hingabe an das Höhere vertieft. Der ernsthafte Suchende entdeckt, dass wahre Selbstmeisterschaft nicht durch die Unterdrückung seiner Natur entsteht, sondern durch deren bewusste Veredelung.

Je freier ein Mensch innerlich wird, desto weniger benötigt er Macht, Anerkennung oder Kontrolle über andere. Stattdessen erwachsen Mitgefühl, Liebe und der Wunsch, zum Wohle der Bruderschaft der Menschheit beizutragen.

Echte Freiheit bedeutet nicht, dass sich die Welt nach deinen Vorstellungen richten muss. Sie bedeutet, dass dein innerer Frieden nicht länger vollständig von ihr abhängig ist.

Denn der wahrhaft freie Mensch ist nicht jener, der alles besitzen kann, sondern jener, der nicht länger von dem beherrscht wird, was er zu besitzen glaubt.

What is the greatest truth in life?

 

What is the greatest truth in life?

1. Life is not a straight line. The sooner you realize this, the happier you become.
2. Nothing is permanent. Money isn't permanent. Your dog isn't permanent, and you're certainly not permanent. Even truth evolves.
3. You were designed to adapt to change so as to allow evolution to occur with little or no resistance.
4. Adapt to nature, and live longer.
5. Argument yields no fruit even if you win.
6. Even the perfect answer doesn't solve the world's problems.
7. Death is certain, regardless of how we feel about it or how we try to resist it.
8. No one is perfect, therefore everything created by human is not perfect.
9. There are certain things we can't explain, and there are certain things that need no explanation.
10. Life is constantly fighting you because you're subconsciously fighting life and have never found the perfect harmony with the universe.
11. You cannot maintain perfection using only a single digit, just as you cannot maintain equilibrium using only one eye, or one arm, or one leg.
12. Each time you try to convince yourself that God doesn't exist, you are fighting a losing battle against your subconscious and denying yourself perfect peace.

 

NOBODY IS PERFECT?

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“Nobody is perfect” is a common idiom meaning that all human beings make mistakes, have flaws, and are vulnerable to error

This famous line is spoken by Osgood Fielding III, played by Joe E. Brown in Some Like It Hot (directed by Billy Wilder, 1959).

Is it true that nobody is perfect? It’s true! No one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes. It’s part of being human. If someone you know makes a mistake, try to be understanding and forgiving instead of immediately jumping to criticizing them.

Many of us believe perfectionism is a positive. You may count me in.

More often than I’d like to admit, something seemingly inconsequential will cause the same feeling to rear its head again. Something as small as accidentally squashing the makeup I was bringing my first girlfriend’s family for Christmas can tumble around in my mind for several days, accompanied by occasional voices like “How stupid!” and “You should have known better”. 

Falling short of a bigger goal, even when I know achieving it would be near-impossible, can temporarily flatten me. When a former agent told me that she knew I was going to write a book someday but that the particular idea I’d pitched her didn’t suit the market, I felt deflated in a gut-punching way that went beyond disappointment. The negative drowned out the positive. “You’re never going to write a book,” my internal voice said. “You’re not good enough.” That voice didn’t care that this directly contradicted what the agent actually said. And, up to now, I haven’t finished my first book, yet… .

That’s the thing about perfectionism. It takes no prisoners.

If I’ve struggled with perfectionism, I’m far from alone. The tendency starts young – and it’s becoming more common. Thomas Curran and Andrew Hill’s recent meta-analysis of rates of perfectionism from 1989 to 2016, the first study to compare perfectionism across generations, found significant increases among more recent undergraduates in the US, UK and Canada. In other words, the average college student last year was much more likely to have perfectionistic tendencies than a student in the 1990’s or early 2000’s.

It’s heading toward an epidemic and public health issue. It’s a great quotation from Katie Rasmussen.

“As many as two in five kids and adolescents are perfectionists,” says Katie, who researches child development and perfectionism at West Virginia University. “We’re starting to talk about how it’s heading toward an epidemic and public health issue.”

The rise in perfectionism doesn’t mean each generation is becoming more accomplished. It means we’re getting sicker, sadder and even undermining our own potential.

Here is another great example: a perfectionist, French Claude Monet often destroyed his paintings in a temper while saying, ‘My life has been nothing but a failure’.

Perfectionism, after all, is an ultimately self-defeating way to move through the world. It is built on an excruciating irony: making, and admitting, mistakes is a necessary part of growing and learning and being human. It also makes you better at your career and relationships and life in general. By avoiding mistakes at any cost, a perfectionist can make it harder to reach their own lofty goals.

But the drawback of perfectionism isn’t just that it holds you back from being your most successful, productive self. Perfectionistic tendencies have been linked to a laundry list of clinical issues: depression and anxiety (even in children), self-harm, social anxiety disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, binge eating, anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, chronic fatigue syndrome, insomnia, hoarding, dyspepsia, chronic headaches, and, most damning of all, even early mortality and suicide.

“It’s something that cuts across everything, in terms of psychological problems,” says Sarah Egan, a senior research fellow at the Curtin University in Perth who specialises in perfectionism, eating disorders and anxiety.

Culturally, I learned, we often see perfectionism as a positive. Even saying you have perfectionistically tendencies can come off as a coy compliment to yourself; it’s practically a stock answer to the “What’s your worst trait?” question in job interviews. (Past employers, now you know! I wasn’t just being cute).

It is difficult to tell who is motivated and conscientious and who is a perfectionist. .

That inner voice criticises different things for different people – work, relationships, tidiness, fitness. My own tendencies may differ greatly from somebody else’s. It can take someone who knows me well to pick up on them. (When I messaged one of my friends I was writing this story, he immediately sent back a long line of laughing emojis).

Perfectionists can make smooth sailing into a storm, a brief ill wind into a category-five hurricane. At the very least, they perceive it that way. And, because the ironies never end, the behaviors perfectionists adapt ultimately, actually, do make them more likely to fail.

Thinking of perfectionism, makes me think of my own childhood peppered with avoiding (or starting and quitting) almost every sport there was. If I wasn’t adept at something almost from the get-go, I didn’t want to continue – especially if there was an audience watching. In fact, multiple studies have found a correlation between perfectionism and performance anxiety even in children as young as 10.

Mental health problems aren’t just caused by perfectionism; some of these problems can lead to perfectionism, too. One recent study, for example, found that over a one-year period, college students who had social anxiety were more likely to become perfectionists – but not vice versa.

When it comes to the most dramatic example, suicide, numerous studies also have found that perfectionism is a lethal contributor all on its own. One found that perfectionism made depressed patients more likely to think about suicide even above and beyond feelings of hopelessness. A recent meta-analysis, the most complete on the suicide-perfectionism link to date, found that nearly every perfectionistic tendency – including being concerned over mistakes, feeling like you are never good enough, having critical parents, or simply having high personal standards – was correlated with thinking about suicide more frequently. (The two exceptions: being organised or demanding of others).

Some of those criteria, particularly pressure from parents and perfectionistic concerns, also were correlated with more suicide attempts.

In many ways, poorer health outcomes for perfectionists aren’t that surprising. “Perfectionists are pretty much awash with stress. Even when it’s not stressful, they’ll typically find a way to make it stressful,” says Gordon Flett, who has studied perfectionism for more than 30 years and whose assessment scale developed with Paul Hewitt is considered a gold standard. Plus, he says, if your perfectionism finds an outlet in, say, workaholism, it’s unlikely you’ll take many breaks to relax – which we now know both our bodies and brains require for healthy functioning.

After all, many of us live in societies where the first question when you meet someone is what you do for a living. Where we are so literally valued for the quality and extent of our accomplishments that those achievements often correlate, directly, to our ability to pay rent or put food on the table. Where complete strangers weigh these on-paper values to determine everything from whether we can rent that flat or buy that car or receive that loan. Where we then signal our access to those resources with our appearance – these shoes, that physique – and other people weigh that, in turn, to see if we’re the right person for a job interview or dinner invitation.

Fear of failure is getting magnified in other ways, too. Take social media: make a mistake today and your fear that it might be broadcast, even globally, is hardly irrational. At the same time, all of those glossy feeds reinforce unrealistic standards.

In my opinion, and I am not alone with it, it’s the idea that you don’t have to be perfect to be lovable or to be loved. It’s a work in progress. And,  what I’ve noticed too, is that, each time I’m able to replace criticizing and perfecting with compassion, I feel not only less stressed, but freer. Apparently, that’s not unusual.

How do you accept that nobody is perfect? If I could give you five tips to help you accept who you are, they would be this:
See your perceived flaws in a whole new light. Nothing is ever completely good or completely bad. …
Practice gratitude daily. …
Recognize that you are not your thoughts. …
Be vulnerable with others. …
Look after yourself.