Lessons from Christmas mornings, championship parades and the quiet joy of creating Fulfillment, happiness and a sustained sense of good feeling can only come from inside. If you are looking for the news, sporting events, or lottery winnings to give you something to make you happy, you will ultimately be disappointed. You may find a fleeting […]
Auguste Comte’s Religion of Humanity In 1849 Frenchman, Auguste Comte, [1] introduced an interesting religion, especially today, where religions are held is such low repute by intellectuals. Imagine a world in which institutions were based on scientific truths; a world where rulers reject ideologies, greed and power, but work for the good of all people based on […]
It wasn’t always this way When did you last believe that the world was genuinely getting better? Not incrementally, technologically, or in some narrow measurable way—but morally better? That human beings were progressing toward something better? The question seems silly, doesn’t it? It’s because almost nobody believes this anymore. What’s crazy is, in the past most of […]
and Why We Are the Way We Are When a baby is born into a family, it is born into a world of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. All of these components contribute to forming the child’s outlook on the world: The home and the family’s possessions. The family’s relationship to other people, to […]
Get ready for it In that never-ending cycle of the generations of humanity, every individual, even you, is of little consequence. We live our lives. We affect the lives of others around us. Our dreams, our choices, ripple forward, minutely altering humanity’s trajectory. And then we die. Those that continue to live will remember us. […]
How Society’s Formula for Success Becomes a Trap During childhood, countless voices repeatedly impressed upon us what we must do in order to have a successful life. We were taught the “right” way to live, as opposed to the way those “other people” did things—you know, the drug addicts, prostitutes and criminals. If you were […]
A Story from WWI We sometimes call our political enemies evil. But they are nothing like the evil we have seen in the past. Like all human qualities, evil is relative. This is a story of evil: Henry Morgenthau Sr. was the American ambassador to Turkey who tried to prevent the Armenian genocide during WWI. […]
How Galileo’s Absurd Theory Became Reality I want to talk about what a leap into the void, a leap into apparent madness Galileo Galilei’s (1564–1642) helio-centric theory was at the time. It contradicted everything that people knew. I mean, really, why would anyone believe it at the time? Here’s the story. When the whole Galileo […]
Because Humans are still Humans What happened in the past was real then; but the same types of events still happen today. The nature of humanity, and the things we do, remain constant in history. The same people who exist today could have existed centuries ago. That’s why the study of history is important—so that […]
Exposing Occam’s Razor as Humanity’s Favorite Way to Avoid the Hard Truth In life, nothing is as simple as we want it to be. Ideally, we could use our powers of logical reasoning to solve our problems, such as: A is true, and B is true, Therefore, C is true. For example: All dogs are […]
