by lepton | Feb 9, 2015 | Faith, Matters of the Heart, Proselytization Response, Semantics
You can visit a sister site, uncomfortable questions (and comment on them if you have a Reddit account) for generally loaded questions like this: Why do people get so up in arms about people having imaginary friends while being indifferent of the fact that these...
by lepton | Jan 26, 2015 | Matters of the Heart, Semantics
The process of vulnerability is peacemaking. You start out at a cold war (mistrusting each other) and each party tests the waters of drawing down and seeing if the other party reciprocates. There is also the issue that some people don’t have much about...
by lepton | Jan 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
From a comment by MS on an article about moral courage featuring a Nobel Prize winner: Much is made of the pursuit of happiness in US society but rarely do we talk about the two main types of happiness as delineated by ancient philosophers — hedonic vs....
by lepton | Jan 19, 2015 | Power Dynamic
I find, on analysis of my thoughts that a large number of them and possibly the majority involve a power struggle. I’m trying to get someone in power to take my ideas seriously because I think they are more well thought through than the existing ideas. And...
by lepton | Jan 2, 2015 | Faith, Power Dynamic, Proselytization Response
Another wrinkle in the problem of the efficacy of prayer is the fact that most of the good things in life (jobs, friends, etc..) come through being connected to privileged informal social networks (usually consisting of people of privilege). When one does not have...
