Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock

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  • Good and Nihilism: Belief’s Default and the Mind’s Hammock

    Nihilism, as this writer understands it, is simply giving up on critical thought, meaning, purpose, or any activity that hasn’t a discernible paycheck or minimally the thrill of retribution on the backend of the effort. Nihilism is apparently making a… Continue reading

  • Good, and Kidnapping History

    The is a problem with foisting the truth of history and replacing it with a knockoff.  Truth is like a snowball in the child’s hot hands who takes the snowball into the warm house to show Mom.  It melts, disappears… Continue reading

  • Good, Thriving and The Cost of “I”

    “The master trend in recent Western culture has been to emancipate the individual from the group, and now we are paying the social and spiritual price.”   David Brooks, New York Times It is as if a meteorite just hit North… Continue reading

  • Good, Honor, and Evil: The Brothers at Odds

    When a father, husband or son executes a young woman for disobedience to the family’s honor code, whatever that code is, how does the word ‘honor’ fit with that killing? This is a question some countries and cultures are attempting… Continue reading

  • Good and When Moral Distress becomes Fatal

    In this writers home state 21,000 people could lose medicaid services thanks to the new federal legislation. It can’t be that different in other states. Forget red state and blue state and lets just think in terms of dead or… Continue reading

  • Good, Immigration, and Living in the Frosting of a Cake

    I am learning that many people like the current administration’s goals, but dislike the methods used to achieve those goals. David French of the New York Times caught that surprising factoid from a CBS/YouGov poll. That shouldn’t surprise us but it… Continue reading

  • Good, Despair, Hope and Faith All the Way Through

    When outrage burns hot, despair in the cooling embers is often not far behind. Is it possible to talk about faith without hanging the word up in the tangles of religious debate? Short answer; yes. Richard Rohr says:  “Faith is… Continue reading

  • Good, Pope Francis and the Price of Caring

    A lot will be written and said in the next few months about Pope Francis, his life, death, and work. In this writer’s less expansive world I was drawn to this man and his message simply because he seemed to… Continue reading

  • Good, Nonviolence, Pacifism, and Servant Leadership

    Strangely enough there is nothing passive about nonviolence or pacifism.  Nonviolence and pacifism are hard choices that must be actively engaged against the mainstream.  Nonviolence itself is a decision that counters a deeply embedded instinct to respond violently to insult… Continue reading

  • Good, Law and Order, and Simplicity as Paradox

    How can one achieve simplicity in a complex society? Is it a choice to keep it simple or is it an obligation to wade into the complexities of the human drama. Each reader will have their opinion as does this… Continue reading