religion
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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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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
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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
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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
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