I am disappointed but not surprised to see Conspiracy Corner type blogs like "Facts", "We're Living in A Movie" and "Mare-age" now spilling over to the main blog section of CLM.  I am trying hard to understand why this has occurred. Hopefully, by the end of this blog and the discussions that follow, we will have a better understanding. For many decades, I have been interested in learning how the brain works, in particular, how the brain gets easily fooled. Read more…

Canada: Lots and lots of snow, hockey, the second largest country in the world by landmass, an opportunity for many to improve their lives. These were the few things I knew about Canada before immigrating here. Read more…

After learning about my upcoming trip to Hungary, someone asked me if I could take some money to her mother. The bank fees were too high, she told me, and the amount in question wasn’t enough to pay a hefty fee on. Read more…

I'm asleep, I'm sure of it, and this has to be a dream. The realization gets through my mind slowly and wearily, gasping for validity in spite of my sureness. Read more…

As I've discovered, truth can be more horrific than fiction. This article will introduce you to some very disturbing events occurring right now within the USA and other developed countries. Akin to a malignant disease that's spreading like an ever-growing octopus, with blood-sucking tentacles everywhere. Almost in a literal sense. Read more…

"There's so much inside us that can't be erased. It's our blueprint of who we are. Our past, present and future." Read more…

"Deceptive and deceiving, the human mind

feigns forgiveness and outward love

Maleficence reigning supreme inside

humanity condemned, woe betide" Read more…

On the balcony, the woman was busy trying to find a place for the orchids. Her vegetables and herbs were in plastic containers in sizes of rather on the large side, leaving not much room for anything else on the floor. So, for the time being, the woman decided to set the orchids on the concrete guard rail, thinking to hang them from a nail tomorrow when there was daylight. Read more…

"We've got 5000 years of culture and history" tends to be the stock answer when the question including 'why' is asked in China . 'So what ? Australian aboriginals have 40,000 years of history, does that make them better than anyone else?"... Read more…

~‘I’ll take you to a good western restaurant’ a friend of mine said to me back in 2009. ‘Great’ said I,with ecstatic enthusiasm. Not knowing a single word of Chinese back then, my friend took over the ordering and soon I found myself with a plate of steak, chips and salad - awesome ! - or so I thought...... Read more…

The following was posted by YinTingYu as a comment on Achelle's recent blog "Of Dogs and Men" but we felt it was deserving of a guest post because it give such an insightful and imaginitive description of another side of the discussion about the killing of animals for food. The tradition of hunting wild game.  With YinTingYu's consent we give you his guest blog. Read more…

Have we all gone insane? Read more…

I received the following email the other day on CLM from a 28 yo Chinese female. Read more…

Silence is the reason why I'm here. Time seems to go slower here. I love this feeling when I can hear my own heart beating and can be myself, no one's watching. I feel that I'm closer to something . . . something that I can't comprehend. This feeling that surrounds me every time I'm here is like when I was at my Mother's home and felt unconditional love. I am closer to home here than anywhere else and I'm accepted for who I am and part of a bigger picture. Read more…

Forgive me…….By now many of you must think I am some kind of ‘sexual pervert’ with my ramblings about the various ‘Types’ of women you can find on CLM and all the other ‘sexual connotations’ I have referred to in my somewhat ‘controversial blogs’ Read more…

I didn't feel that I wanted to come back to Vancouver. I love this city, but I left a part of me in China. I wasn't a whole person. Five days after I got home, Lily, Mandy, Jeff and Lily's ex-husband left for Australia. Read more…

Few days ago I made a comment to John Abbot, I told him that I really feel that the only truly happy people in this world are the idiots, the imbeciles, the completely mad and the children.  The more you know, the more you become aware of what is going on and consequently the more you suffer. Read more…

Strong words, right?  These were the words that were uttered to me today when a good friend of mine found out I am a member of CLM. Read more…

President Obama looked up from his desk.  “You said you had a plan to boost my administration in the polls?”  I nodded, “Its simplicity itself, sir.  Reinvent your war. From now on… War on Crocodiles! Why War on Terror when you can War on Crocodiles! Read more…