Good, Paradox and Oblivion

robertjahner

  • Good, Paradox and Oblivion

    What is the difference between paradox and nonsense? I have listened to any number of lectures, talks, and simple conversations and walked away simply shaking my head wondering if there was any sense in what I just heard regarding the… Continue reading

  • Good, Accountability, Justice

    We have had two trials this month of national importance. In both trials it seems justice was served, but to what end? Both parties, former President and current President’s son were found guilty by a jury. Both parties face sentencing… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and the daughter of this earth

    Nouf Aljowaysir is a young woman who lived Saudi Arabia until she moved to the United States, who like so many people in this age of disapora finds herself no longer in the country of her birth, and feeling a need… Continue reading

  • Good and Moral Humiliation

    The only thing good and greed share is their first letter g. The accumulation of great personal wealth beyond a certain measure should be humiliating, embarrassing and shameful. Pull back the blankets on today’s international tragedies and the disparity of… Continue reading

  • Good and the Work Our Age

    I heard a promotion for a workshop on the topic of ‘nonduality’. The gist was that word nonduality was catching fire and people were flocking to the resources and readings regarding that term. Imagine going to the average coffee shop… Continue reading

  • Good and Terrible Depths

    I pulled this quote from the New York Times in my morning reading. For not entirely explainable reasons a quote from the work of Friedrich Nietzsche struck me as very important for us all in this era of image. UmaSofia… Continue reading

  • Good and Spirituality under Tyranny

    David Brooks quotes Howard Thurman in his New York Times piece (5/10/24 How to Create a Society That Prizes Decency. The article so precisely illuminates the importance of starting your considerations for future actions or expressions from within. And that… Continue reading

  • Good and Real Change

    Real change can be traumatic.  Change will always be work.  Anyone who has ever oared a river raft has had a crash course in this thing called change.  The peaceful river can put one to sleep, but in a couple… Continue reading

  • Don’t light a match

    In this last month, I have traveled through many of the towns in which I have lived over the course of my life thus far. In this journey I have had coffee and conversations with many old friends and delivered… Continue reading

  • Goodness and Moral Dissonance

    There is a frank and direct discomfort, if not pain, in any action one takes that generates moral dissonance within one’s considerations. When you cross grain what you believe to be good you will feel the ‘soul scratch’. I frequently… Continue reading