Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier

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  • Good, Generosity, and Poverty; the Ultimate Values Clarifier

    True poverty reduces one to their true values but poverty is such a hard edged teacher.  One can easily present as a good person if one has sufficient resources, but obeying your own authority regarding the values of good from… Continue reading

  • Good and the Presumption of Guilt; Where art Thou Sweet Innocence?

    The presumption of innocence is not a new concept with the US Constitution.  The matter goes back in a formal legal sense at least as far as the Code of Hammurabi dating back in the ancient near east to at… Continue reading

  • Good: Talking life but Choosing Death

    Having a Palliative Care nurse as a spouse and poet has left me a different person than I would be if I hadn’t. The end of life presents the ultimate decision points that either gather together all that is good… Continue reading

  • Good and Why Immigration is not Political

    If you don’t understand why immigration is not essentially political you need to go to the movie Nuremberg which has recently opened in theaters. No, the treatment of the immigrant is first and foremost, moral.  The political response is only an echo of… Continue reading

  • Good and Religious Orthodoxy: Renascence or Reign of Terror

    That people are reported to be struggling to achieve deeper meaning in this uncertain time could be construed as good news. That there is a surge of people, and particularly younger men who are joining orthodox churches suggests a shift… Continue reading

  • Good and “Silence in the Face of Evil”

    This Post begins with a quote from Thomas Friedman of the New York Times in an article addressing collapsing morality in this era of ours. “The anti-Nazi Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was hanged by Hitler’s henchmen shortly before… Continue reading

  • Good, AI, and Fogging while Flogging Truth.

    The error of this age is the conflation of information with capital “T” Truth. This error is being exponentially accelerated by the misuse of AI combined with the practice of nihilism in our current government. Nihilism as an unspoken philosophy… Continue reading

  • Good and the Danger of Pure Transactional Heart

    Purity is a dangerous goal but this nation seems suddenly impressed with that word.  How many times have we heard that dodgy family of superlatives like pure, perfect, and great used in the current political narrative. Take the stock market. … Continue reading

  • Good, Truth, Speech and Expression

    The unspoken foundation of the human right Freedom of Speech was always truth. One doubts that the crafters of this American Constitution ever dreamed that an age would come when the lie was granted equal footing with the truth and… Continue reading

  • Good and the Humanitarian as Terrorist

    If you listen to the current news cycle you begin to wonder when concern for fellow human beings will soon be labeled as a act of terror. Mind you this post is not about violence because violence requires one suspend… Continue reading