Sound Principles

Why do we start a question with a compliment?
I attended a talk this afternoon and noticed that a few of the people asking questions in the Q&A session started with a compliment. I do believe they were genuine, and therefore nice, gestures, but am curious as to how does one reacts to such comments...

It's amazing how easy it is to judge someone without realising how little we know about that person or even the context of the situation.
Why?
Why do we spend our time judging others, thinking we know better how they should live their lives? Don't we have enough activities, issues and challenges ourselves that we wander the realms of another?...

Should we be rewarded for our good intentions?
If the intentions were truly good, they should require no reward : )
We live in reward based world. If I do this, I expect that. No action is done for the pure pleasure or to simply help someone else, without hidden agenda. You could almost argue that charity is a selfish act that is done to satisfy the doer's ego. In...

I've always felt that with the disappearance of civilisations, library, geniuses and their work, dogmatism, etc. a huge amount of knowledge that would be beneficial today had been lost.
That is until recently.
I realised a couple of months ago during a small epiphany that such knowledge was not lost but existed in myth, stories, behaviour, etc. waiting to be rediscovered. The reason it seems to have disappeared is that it is hard work to discover it. Harder...