The Love Hypocrisy

“While we are young, lust is indistinguishable from love.”

- Xenocrates

A girlfriend of mine once said that young people love with their eyes and old people with their hearts. However, what she doesn’t realise is that she has just highlighted the fact that romance is inherently rife with a certain type of hypocrisy that has completely maligned the way we understand true love.

The Truth About The Truth

“When people go in search of the truth, they tend to find whatever it is they’re looking for, whether it is the truth or not.”

- Xenocrates

Remember when Pluto was a planet? Now it isn’t. Remember when removing tonsils cured tonsillitis? Now we know better. Or what about when the moon was completely devoid of water? Recent discoveries show otherwise. All of these things were true once. So I’ve got to ask a really tough question of you:

What is truth?

The Price of Female Companionship

“As every woman fetches a price, it should come as no surprise that men treat them like assets to be counted and valued.”

- Xenocrates

Do men ALWAYS buy sex? This is certainly worth contemplation.

In 2006, I had a most enlightening conversation with a young woman who wasn’t what you’d call one of the sharpest knives in drawer. Needless to say, the profundity of what came out of her mouth stumped me for several weeks. Yes, it was that earth shattering at the time. This is what she said:

“All men buy sex. The men who get married pay the most, while the patrons of prostitution pay the least.“

Needless to say, I was appalled. Surely this lass who wasn’t necessarily as smart as she was pretty merely stumbled upon this epiphany through someone else’s cognition. I hadn’t decided to give it further contemplation then until a very recent experience with another woman. Now I fear that she may have been right. No wonder many men are so sexist.

Why is being Biracial an issue?

“People seem to instinctively value group membership more than group purpose.”

- Xenocrates

This is a trailer for a documentary called “I’m biracial… not black, damnit!“. It chronicles an ongoing and topical issue among Americans. Is a person who is mixed to identify with blacks or whites? Personally I think the whole issue is moot. Scientifically, the question is as irrelevant as the whole topic of race.

Why Men Cheat

“It is unnatural for any one man to sexually desire only one woman.”

- Xenocrates

Why do men cheat? A lot of women have pondered on this question with great frustration. The answer however is so profoundly simple that I suspect the reason many have failed to appreciate the utter simplicity of it is largely because they are needlessly looking for an answer much deeper than the obvious. However, science shows that the simplest answers usually suffice.

The Anatomy of Friendship

“Life is more cost effective when you have more acquaintances than friends.”

- Xenocrates

Have you ever wondered what true friendship really is? It is a most curious thing. Between the people who overvalue casual acquaintances to those who undervalue the one or two people who would truly lay down for them, most people don’t really have any appreciation whatsoever of what friendship really is. But before anyone can appreciate the true nature of friendship, know this:

I’m a Twit

In the unlikely event that you haven’t noticed, I’ve leaped onto the latest, nearly useless internet based communications band wagon sensation designed to let everyone know your business and to sell smart phones. Yes, that’s right, I’m now a twit; literally and figuratively.

If you like, you can follow me here: http://twitter.com/accordingtoxen

Why Life is not fair

“If survival is only for the fittest then all men weren’t created equal.”

- Xenocrates

Survival is only for the fittest. No exceptions.

Life is all about survival. Survival is all about competition. There would be no point to there being a competition if we all were made of exactly the same stuff. We’re all of the same design, but some of us are better implemented than others. That’s why survival only rewards the fittest. Even the fit will die.

We have two choices in life: Evolve or Die. Because of our genetics, some people will be better at that than others – and that is the frightening reality. For no matter how you look at it, life’s not fair. It never was, still isn’t and never will be. But there is a reason why life isn’t fair. I’m about to tell you why.

The Danger of Educating Women

“Women who desire to become equal with men become less valuable as women.”

- Xenocrates

I, the fat lady, do hereby declare that I have sung. Now where’s my lighter?

If all the women in the world were to be truly liberated, in the sense that they were all educated at the same level as their male counterparts, given truly equal opportunities to occupy all the same positions that men currently do, what do you think will happen to our capacity to continue our existence?

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

“Transformers 2 is by no means any where near the quality of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, but it certainly is rather quite entertaining.”

- Xenocrates

Hello Sam. I’m here to bring the carnage. This movie is long, so let’s get started.

Three words: SICKEST. MOVIE. EVER. Michael Bay’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) is over two and a half hours of deafening, bone-crushing, side-splitting, mind-numbing, laugh-out-loud, edge-of-your-seat, gorgeous pop corn entertainment that is sure to make a killing at the box office this season.