A Sijo we frame one another in stillness mistaking shapes for souls; our minds paint likenesses, gentle yet thin as remembered light; only by seeing this in ourselves can we ever truly see What Do You See 311 For WDYS, Sadje offers us a photo taken by Karsten Winegeart (Unsplash). The image shows a solitary… Continue reading Mistaking shapes, or: Souls→| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
Is empathy always good? Without scrutiny, it feeds bias, but with reality testing, it grounds compassion in truth. The post The Limits of Empathy: Why Feeling Isn’t Always Knowing appeared first on Public Square Magazine.| Public Square Magazine
It is often said, usually by those with something to protect, that greed is simply “human nature.” The phrase rolls easily off the tongue, a convenient moral shrug that turns inequality, exploitati…| The Slow Burning Fuse
You may have read this in the September Labour Affairs. This version has a few extras. Falsifying Darwin, Feeding the Rich Vanity and Defeat in the 1970s Big Dominant Creatures Not Really Winners ‘…| Gwydion Madawc Williams
Conventional wisdom holds that the murder rate has plummeted since the Middle Ages; humankind is growing more peaceful and enlightened; man is shortly to be much improved — better genes, better neural circuits, better biochemistry; and we are approaching a technological singularity that well may usher in utopia. Human Nature eviscerates these and other doctrines of a contemporary nihilism masquerading as science. Read More ›Source| Books – Discovery Institute
One of the reasons Buddhists emphasize the idea of non-self so much, I think, is they see the kind of …Continue reading →| Love of All Wisdom
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A Sijo power casts its shadow cool shelter for those in its favor; yet in that same dark chill cruelty itself takes form and moves; me? I’m most gentle, most human when I keep my shadow short dR…| The Skeptic's Kaddish 🇮🇱
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Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee’s In COVID’S Wake (2025) provides a detailed description and analysis of the mismanagement of the COVID pandemic.[1] Major contributing factors were:| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective
Democracy – Older than Parliaments. A new essay that looks first at what is going wrong in the USA. How Trump is wrong on the economy, but it following the only possible path to peace for Ukraine. …| Gwydion Madawc Williams
In principio erat Verbum – Jn 1:1 The spirit of our age is one of irrationality. We are suspicious of people that make (universal) truth claims. We are| Homiletic & Pastoral Review
Nietzsche and the Book of Mormon share unexpected parallels—both rejecting passive faith to embrace agency, power, and transformation in the pursuit of divine potential.| Public Square Magazine
One of my dreams is to share an idea that can’t be unseen. Once it is understood, it becomes a new lens for seeing the world from a different perspective. The most obvious example is Darwin’s theory of evolution. He provided humanity with a lens that explained the natural world. Everywhere you point that lens, the […]| Lee LeFever dot com
January 27, 2025 Heterogenius Why and How to Stop Dividing People into Us and Them By Alfie Kohn How can we use each other’s differences in our common battles for a livable future? – Audre…| Alfie Kohn
Mike Magee More than once in the lead up to the launch of 2025 I have heard friends and colleagues express a range of sentiments that circled around the general notion that “This is too much to take.” But throughout history, and into the current period, there are more than a few examples of human […]| HealthCommentary
Nayef Al-Rodhan’s transdisciplinary ‘Symbiotic Realism’ framework describes the seven new forces transforming the international system.| Research Outreach