I don't feel eudemonic pleasure. I volunteer a lot because I can't find paid work and don't get pleasure from it. The pleasure I feel is hedonic like when I listen to a good song or are with friends enjoying tea or a chai latte. I think there are a few reasons for...
God's perceived goodness is like an odometer. People who have great lives generally believe God is good. People with middling lives don't as much. But when things get bad enough people start viewing God as good again. This is why more people would say God was good...
From my Xanga ('03 '04) Seeds of certain kinds of trees only germinate under extreme heat. I think the same could be said about certain kinds of evil in people's soul. The seeds have always been lying there… it just takes an extended period of extreme suffering to...
The deepest truths are not true or false like a Boolean variable, they are incarnated. This is partly why people get so angry when you are living a life that, by their philosophy, your outcome should be different. This is why the people conservatives save their...
Pride isn't so much of an entity in and of itself is it is a glue that holds everything else in one's life together. For example take your typical window shade. It will have a shade and an apparatus to connect it to the window. Pride is like that apparatus. Pride...
Most people are moated, particularly those society deems worth engaging. This means there are barriers to getting into their life and often these barriers are insurmountable. I have been in situations including a college surrounded by people society deemed worth...
Walk inside on a sunny day and you generally can see indoors without too much fuss (unless there is something wrong with your eyes). This is because your pupils dilate. The scale of light is actually logarithmic. There is orders of magnitude more light outside than...
Conservative Christians control all the levers of power in America. Never mind how it happened here are three ways it will leave its legacy. Cuts in education are designed to produce an ignorant populace which will be more easily swayed by propaganda. Republicans...
the one with the most power is not the one who makes the decision for you but the one who forces you to choose in the first place People don't understand what freedom is. They equate freedom with having the widest array of choices. But what they fail to grasp is the...
Forgiveness is like the horizon. Everyone says it exists but you can never get there. Forgiveness is like lotto winnings. I remember being at a gas station and there was a LED ticker denoting winnings in towns around us. And we hear about the big wins in the...