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		<title>&#8220;Constitution Of The Individual&#8221; :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2013 17:06:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine marked it as the &#8220;Constitution of the Individual&#8221; once. It is these four lines that I had written forty years ago and remember from time to time and try to stick to it: One day, if &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1585"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A friend of mine marked it as the &#8220;Constitution of the Individual&#8221; once. It is these four lines that I had written forty years ago and remember from time to time and try to stick to it:</p>
<p>One day, if I can turn back and look at this very day,</p>
<p>There will be nothing that I will have regrets for</p>
<p>For I have dedicated all my power to every offered moment</p>
<p>For I have lived every offered moment with full conscious.</p>
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		<title>Getting Together Again</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1563</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 13:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was almost a kid when I said goodbye to him. At that moment I knew that it was almost like I lost him as if he were dead. I knew that I would never see him again, both of &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1563"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was almost a kid when I said goodbye to him.</p>
<p>At that moment I knew that it was almost like I lost him as if he were dead. I knew that I would never see him again, both of us being the same persons.</p>
<p>I was sending Christmas cards each year as if I was praying for his soul.</p>
<p>Then I learned that he passed away. This time in real world.</p>
<p>His death was not an another goodbye but getting together again.</p>
<p>Suddenly I was the the same kid of many many years ago. I could never imagine that I could be that child again but I was.</p>
<p>How heavy load it is, to be two different persons at the same time.</p>
<p>(For Richard A. Smith)</p>
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		<title>Life is&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1556</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is management of dilemmas and probabilities.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Life is management of dilemmas and probabilities.</p>
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		<title>We Are Not Independent From Our Era</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1424</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 06:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we hear people criticizing those who behaved wrongly &#8211; with todays values &#8211; in the past especially if they were the part of the great majority: &#8220;If I had lived at that time, I would not have behaved like &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1424"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes we hear people criticizing those who behaved wrongly &#8211; with todays values &#8211; in the past especially if they were the part of the great majority: &#8220;If I had lived at that time, I would not have behaved like them&#8221;</p>
<p>This is not very meaningful for he would not be the same person he is today, if he had lived at that time.</p>
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		<title>Correct Evaluation</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1291</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An evaluation of any life at any moment would not have any meaning since the effect of what will still be lived can not be predicted. The correct evaluation of one&#8217;s life can only be made just a moment before &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1291"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An evaluation of any life at any moment would not have any meaning since the effect of what will still be lived can not be predicted. The correct evaluation of one&#8217;s life can only be made just a moment before death, however such an evaluation would not have any meaning either since there is nothing left to be lived.</p>
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		<title>To be Just or not to be Just</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1097</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 10:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He believed that his mission in life was to gently touch one arm of the seesaws that he chooses to touch. Some of the seesaws were sufficiently firm in equilibrium and did not get effected. However for the others equilibrium &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1097"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>He believed that his mission in life was to gently touch one arm of the seesaws that he chooses to touch.</p>
<p>Some of the seesaws were sufficiently firm in equilibrium and did not get effected. However for the others equilibrium was like hanging by a thread and arms flipped over towards the side he touched.</p>
<p>He thought he was just to all the seesaws that he interacted since he was applying exactly the same force to all.</p>
<p>Maybe he was right or maybe not.</p>
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		<title>From a Different Angle</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1081</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[She said she would rather feel guilty after serious quarrels with her partner. I was astonished and asked &#8216;Why?&#8217; She said: &#8216;Then I have the control over the distance between us. I apologise and we are close again. If  I &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1081"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>She said she would rather feel guilty after serious quarrels with her partner.</p>
<p>I was astonished and asked &#8216;Why?&#8217;</p>
<p>She said: &#8216;Then I have the control over the distance between us. I apologise and we are close again. If  I feel that I was standing for the right in our quarrel, then the control is at him and if he does not feel sorry we are not as close anymore&#8217;</p>
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		<title>Freedom Lands and the Sky</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1063</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:15:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many other concepts humans brought up the &#8216;freedom concept&#8217;  from one of their significant wishes. Wish of not being bounded, wish of not being limited. One can be visualised as confined to a freedom land with four different boundaries &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1063"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Like many other concepts humans brought up the &#8216;freedom concept&#8217;  from one of their significant wishes. Wish of not being bounded, wish of not being limited.</p>
<p>One can be visualised as confined to a freedom land with four different boundaries at each border. One boundary is at our relations with other people, the second arises from our relation to God, the third boundary is physical constraints and the fourth one is the limitations we set for ourselves. Of course there are interactions between these four as well.</p>
<p>Confinement to a small or a larger freedom land does not matter much for an individual as long as one does not have the desire to expand the existing boundaries. Equal satisfactions from life could come from having a small freedom land or bigger freedom land if one has no problem with boundaries.  Some might enjoy the challenge to expand boundaries but some might seek for even more confinement. Any comparison for different satisfactions in different size freedom lands would have to be subjective.</p>
<p>What makes a difference is in the direction where there are no boundaries. That is, not towards the four borders but towards the sky. This is the &#8216;discovery&#8217; direction; towards the sky through aesthetics, science, curiosity, art, music, travelling, learning, searching, discovering&#8230;</p>
<p>If there is one objective comparison between having a smaller freedom land and a bigger land, those who have the latter have a stronger tendency to look up to the sky and spend more time in it.</p>
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		<title>Connection</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1057</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 23:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Man used &#8216;creativity&#8217; to increase his capabilities. Invented &#8216;writing&#8217; to remember more, invented telescopes to see farther, invented airplanes to move faster, invented computers to compute better etc. Could that be true that nature used &#8216;creativity&#8217; to increase her capabilities &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1057"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Man used &#8216;creativity&#8217; to increase his capabilities. Invented &#8216;writing&#8217; to remember more, invented telescopes to see farther, invented airplanes to move faster, invented computers to compute better etc.</p>
<p>Could that be true that nature used &#8216;creativity&#8217; to increase her capabilities through humans ?</p>
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		<title>About Love</title>
		<link>https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1046</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 20:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kemal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Love is a very strong feeling, because it is the heritage of feelings of millions who lived before us. This feeling is related with the desperation of not being able to select &#8216;the desired opposite gender&#8217;. However, the original feeling &#8230;</p><div class="read_more"><a href="https://kemaltumerkan.com/?p=1046"> devamını oku </a></div>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love is a very strong feeling, because it is the heritage of feelings of millions who lived before us. This feeling is related with the desperation of not being able to select &#8216;the desired opposite gender&#8217;.</p>
<p>However, the original feeling has evolved to a pleasant one along generations.</p>
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