Biriba Game

On Dealing with Uncertainty
'.Scientists have shown conclusively that particles, from photons to molecules, behave in random ways. The position, or existence, of a particle is a probabilistic wave; we cannot pinpoint the particle's location exactly. Since the atmosphere is a huge particle soup, consequently the weather is quite unpredictable. Also, largely unpredictable is a national economy of human monads exchanging products and services. Humans are not particles but they often behave in random ways as particles do. You can never be sure how a human, or any animal, will react exactly.' Read more
Saving Grace: The Case for Conservation
I have held the opinion since I grew up that life's major purpose is work: the production of useful products and services for personal use or for sale. Work justifies my life and procreation, rest and recreation. Work, however, is not enough to fulfill my goals; saving money earned and other resources, investing them profitably, are equally important values. Read more
On the Tones of Cultured Speech
As I travel on aircraft, in airports, and cities that I visit around the world, I have noted that people of any nationality speaking in languages I don't understand sometimes appear to me to be speaking in cultured tones or not. Read more

I was born and raised in Greece near Athens and attended high school at Athens College, a Greek-American preparatory institution that is attended by many of the Greek elite and many scholarship students like myself. I was baptized and indoctrinated in the state church as a Greek Orthodox Christian. The Greek Orthodox Church, which was established by St. Paul, Saul of Tarsus just a few years after Christ's crucifixion, is similar to Roman Catholicism from which it split several centuries later in the Schism. Greek Orthodoxy follows a very strict religious discipline. The Madonna is worshipped with ardor as the Mother of God and the source of Divine Compassion. Read more