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Good , Ungrounded and the Secular Ecumenical Virtues
Growing up in our divided country is a numbing challenge for both today’s youth and young adults. The current government is busy trashing the language of virtue, disdaining ethics, and simply ignoring morality. Our leadership is promoting pragmatism, and purely… Continue reading
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Good, Universal Moral Distress, and a Wide Diverse World
I was informed by the website provider that this project called The Good Decision has just passed being viewed in 50 plus nations. This comes as a surprise for as you may know as a reader, this is a pretty… Continue reading
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Good and the New/Old Amoral Religiosity
This writer finds it curious that some times the most religiously aligned political actors use their political power to suspend the morality of their own religion. Our current President is criticizing and denouncing Catholicism’s leader for speaking out in support… Continue reading
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Good and What We Want to be True
Truth is not what we want it to be, but rather what it is. In an esoteric discussion of black holes, David Kaiser a professor of physics and science at M.I.T. made an elegant summary of their discussion of science… Continue reading
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Good and Why Nations Aren’t Nurturance Communities: American Conflations
The American diaspora to Italy just had a hard rejection. Italy recently overturned the rules of citizenship and those people trying to close the ancestral loop of immigration to America and back just learned they may not be welcome as… Continue reading
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Good, Nationalism and Religion, and the Creative Tolerance Mandate
The word good, under the right circumstances, can be paired with either nationalism and religion, but never can good be tied to nationalism and religion linked together. The founders of this country knew from the outset that nationalism and any… Continue reading
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Good, Corrective Pain, and the CPWP (Comfortable Privileged White Person)
Being comfortable in your own skin, feeling the privilege of your own blessings, and experiencing a state feeling in oneself as a worthy human being is an internal state for all humans, and is more basic than race. We live… Continue reading
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Good, Breakdown in America, and Human Monasteries
In times of social upheaval the cultures tend to build thick walls to protect their version of civilization that houses their sense of good in monasteries, libraries, or in an infinite variety of creeds, codes, or cults. Upheaval is a… Continue reading
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Good, Democracy and the Fallacy of “My Own Morality”
The question becomes: Can one individual have their own morality? The short answer is no. Only a narcissist can have “their own static morality” and that becomes a diagnosis rather than a morality. Ultimately morality is a social word and… Continue reading
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Good, the Parasite and the Public Ethic
A good parasite does not kill its host or at least not immediately. A good parasite knows at some primitive level that for as long as the host lives, the nutrition flows. But like all other communities of life, some… Continue reading
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