Tag Archives: psychology

Friday Extra: We Call It “Solipsism”

It’s a tough game when you apply individual psychological assessments to whole nations. But if I offered you a government document and asked you to read the tone via standard psychological assessments, you’d get the idea. It’s not as if … Continue reading

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The Otherworldly Call

Dear readers, I’m pretty sure most of you realized long ago that our official governing institutions are not really the human government over any of us. The structure we see is a facade, though the people involved are surely dangerous … Continue reading

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On Being Your Own God

Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am by no means a gamer. I am somewhat of a computer geek, but it’s just a tool for something much more important. If the Internet and computers all died tomorrow, … Continue reading

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Laugh or Not?

It’s blasphemy. Having a sense of humor is a universal human trait, but so is shame. Thus, what we find funny may be highly influenced by culture, but it will always be moderated through our individual personality. Most of us … Continue reading

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Gentle Heart

It’s a simple idea: Gentle is the opposite of brutal. Whenever I have encountered folks with a brutal streak, it boils down to a handful of things, sometimes in combination — self-righteousness, genuine hatred (rejoicing in someone else’s suffering), other … Continue reading

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Another Freak Show

Two whole books on human sexuality aren’t enough (one and two) merely to introduce how utterly freakish Westerners, particularly mainstream Western Christians, are about human sexuality. The just don’t have a clue. Discussing what the Bible considers normal in this … Continue reading

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Psychotic World

When the world acts so crazy, you have to wonder at the definitions of mental health. I’ve noted in the past I’m somewhat a fan of Dr. Thomas Szasz, whose entire career skewered his own profession of psychiatry. His primary … Continue reading

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Non-Goal Oriented

Stay with me here while we untangle several things. Put on your quantum thinking cap so you can handle multiple levels of consideration at once. Westerners in general tend to false dichotomies. This is part of the package that comes … Continue reading

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Say It Again, Rich Bowen

This is just so good I had to link to it: Someone with a real job in Linux has posted an article about how Open Source documentation sucks, and it reflects the awful attitude that dominates Open Source coders. Granted, … Continue reading

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Heart Intelligence HOWTO

This is how I do it; your mileage may vary. Bear in mind the systemic model of human nature. We are fighting generations of mythology and social conditioning that deny a separate intelligence in the heart and belly. Not only … Continue reading

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