Obviously the best is to combine knowledge with experience but if you had to trust a professional, let's say an engineer. Would you trust someone who's works for only a year but has graduated with grade A from the best school or someone who never went to school but works as an engineer for 20 years and he's full of experience?

Words express human feelings. Jealousy, love, hate, anger, disappointment, sadness etc. When someone describes their feelings in words, the feeling is felt or understood based on one's own experience of the same feeling.

But, if someone came up with a new word to describe a feeling you never experienced in your life before, what does even a detailed description of it actually convey to you? Can we experience feelings we never felt before? Is the range of human feelings infinite?

Most of my foreign friends tell me how they notice the Japanese people often stare at them but don't stare at each other. It's true, Japanese people don't stare at each other, if at all, the same way they would stare at a foreigner. When I went to Italy I noticed there people stare a lot. Because it's not socially acceptable for the Japanese to stare at each other, I think a bar where everyone can stare at each other would make the Japanese happy to experience what they can't experience in other social settings :)

A lot of people don't know about it but there are companies that can make personalized urns of deceased people using facial reconstruction and 3D mapping software!! It's for people who want to keep their loved departed ones in an urn on the mantle. Fortunately, I don't have friends or family around me harboring such tastes. I've got an idea, however, that will enhance the product's experience. Make the eyes concave so they follow the person around the room. That's right! What's the point of having something so creepy in your room without turning it into a totally horrifying and spooky experience? lol

I don't know if this idea meets a real need. I am not sure there will be a market for it either but here is how I suppose it could work. Couples who don't want to get married right away but want to experience a wedding go through the ceremony but do not become legally married at the end of it. Instead, they are given a code each which they use to activate their marriage and officiate the ceremony into a legal wedding when they're ready to do so. Both codes must be submitted for this to happen. The couple doesn't have to repeat the ceremony but if they want to, they can. It can be an option for couples who want to experience the ceremony but are not ready to make it official yet.

As a caveat to this post: I cannot accept the assertion that anything that relates to faith cannot be talked about by atheists. In my world view everything must be open to debate.
That being said, I want to focus this post on the existence or not and the definition of what is generally called spirituality. (read more)

Nowadays, they offer classes for everything and increasingly companies are asking for masters and PhDs as well as a ton of experience to fill out positions. But, how come parents are not required to have a degree or experience in parenting before having children? (read more)

My girlfriend is an excellent cook and since she finds me delicious she said she'd like to cook me one day but she doesn't have the right set of sharp knives to cut slice and dice me without losing my juices in the process. So I decided to buy her a top quality set of sharp knives as part of her Christmas presents and finally experience what it'd be like if my girlfriend cooked me for dinner. I'm thinking of presenting the set as follows. (read more)

What is your opinion? Should I go for an MBA directly after my undergrad or I should have a 2-3 years working experience in the industry first?

Why is it assumed that a tip should be left, even if you've received awful service and the food tasted less than commendable? That's the question I ask myself at the end of a meal out when the bill is placed on the table.

Over the weekend I went to a cafe for brunch with some friends. After waiting 25 minutes to be acknowledged I went and asked the waitress for some menus. Another 20 minutes passed before we even placed our orders and then it was all downhill from there. (read more)