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Good, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lieGood, and Discerning Fib, Hyperbole, and lieDecember 30, 2025robertjahner

  • Developmental Community Part III: Vocational Community

    The Vocational Relationship represents the second ring of the Developmental triad in this series of Postings. I apologize for the slightly longer Post here, but the vocational is often the least understood in terms of its relationship to both Nurturance… Continue reading

  • Developmental Community Part II: Nurturance Community

    In Part I of this series I talked about how if things do not follow a healthy course we can develop tragic scotomas or blinds spots to our sense of Good, which includes blindness to the experience of trust, if… Continue reading

  • Developmental Community Part I: Good’s Scotoma

    Oddly enough, one way of looking at the developmental cycle of the human is to see birth and early growth as a slow, steady separation journey of creation from the origin’s pure, sacred inarticulate unity of infancy while maintaining over… Continue reading

  • Good and the Zero Sum Game

    In recent years the term “zero sum game’ tends to pop up in conversation, lectures, editorials, sermons, and seminars. The term itself was coined by mathematicians and occupies a fair size page in Wikipedia.  The approach for this posting is… Continue reading

  • Good, Solitude, Reaction and Response

    As I follow the events of the day I find it harder to hold on to a healthy relationship between myself and the steady flow of conflicted and conflicting news.  If I am not careful I find myself reacting to… Continue reading

  • Good and Solitude

    During the Holidays I found myself reading “The Art of Solitude” written by Stephen Batchelor.  I could call myself a writer in that over the years writing these posts,  papers, documents, policies etc. not only turns out to be how I… Continue reading

  • Good gratitude and the season we are in

    Decembers holidays are often an emotional challenge for me. As I move on in life the rituals are beginning to eclipse the presents and parties, but still a memory resides in me that plays the full spectrum of joy from… Continue reading

  • Good and the pesky binary

    While taking a walk with my primary advisor I was pondering out loud the difficulty of talking about ‘good’ as in the Sense of Good.  People often respond to discussions of the word ‘good’ and its content  either as a… Continue reading

  • Good and the never-ending search for Virtue

    I recently read an opinion piece in the New York Times that took me down that rabbit hole called alternately history and philosophy. The article “If It Was Good Enough for Socrates, It’s Good Enough for Sophomores written by Molly Worthen … Continue reading

  • Good, winning, losing, and elections in real life

    What do you do when an election looks more like real life than a sporting event? I enjoy watching sporting events and at the same time scratch my head about why sports feel so good at times . Maybe it… Continue reading

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