dharmach

One aspect is priority: How much important house styling is for you? May be some cultures have low priority for it.

So far the herd mentality is concerned, being different than others just because everyone is trying to be different (identity crisis?), is the same herd mentality.

And many of those scientific facts are facts for only limited group of people, based on combination of various genetic, age/lifestyle related and environmental factors.

Traffic laws work the same way. Put such speed limit (for example) that almost all drivers are breaking the law, and then pick and choose.

People are willing to wash their hands off their ancestors' sins but without realizing the booty they keep enjoying from the same ancestors. How fair is that a guy shackled for years is freed suddenly and asked to participated in a race as an equal?

It's not easy to take action by authorities if such acts were done by or repeated by many.

If that was true, the mafias do not need to become politician.

I do not deny the (apparent)link between morality and religions but morality, specially non-violence, neither exist/ed only in Christianity, nor it was introduced by Christianity, nor Christianity was/is the largest proponent of it, so what warrants special mention?

Your opinion is correct but don't drag Christianity here. Christianity did enough violence on the name of non-violent Jesus. Better you talk of universal human values.

When the corrupt politicians take anti-democratic action like this one against the free speech, people en masse should repeat the same act in defiance. At least, all the Indians living outside should do it.

Not sure I am correct but had similar feeling in the case against Toyota

The Worst Argument In The World (lesswrong.com) http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/

They should have followed English practice of sending poor or orphaned children to colonies, to help alleviate the shortage of labour.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children

We can start living simpler life with fewer needs and be content and happy until some more aggressive, more ambitious people come and destroy us, as happened to some in history.

provided all the connections are consciously made

Is there any add-on similar to TrackMeNot which can regularly send request for random web pages and obfuscate my internet history? TrackMeNot does similar thing for search engines.

You are taking it to extreme. One cannot claim to be a computer engineer by learning to edit web page, same way doing few postures is not learning Yoga. Many people are following types of Yoga not associated with Asanas so you cannot put all in one category.

Yoga means to unite/connect. There are many branches of Yoga - Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga, Hatha Yoga, etc. They all differ in their philosophy.

In west Yoga means Yogasana (Yoga + Asana) - postures used in Yoga.

Specialists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing

"Why do people move to suburbia? To have kids! So no wonder it seemed boring and sterile. The whole place was a giant nursery, an artificial town created explicitly for the purpose of breeding children."

Not to breed, they go to raise.