Therapists tell their clients the have innate worth. This is another way to keep those on top on top and the rest of us down. Think of it. Those on top take the idea they have innate worth to heart and experience said truth in their environment. Those of us closer...
(Saw this on Pinterest and loved it) One thing you must understand about yourself is existence is a liability, not an asset. The more violently and specifically you impose yourself on others' senses, the less grace you will be shown. Why do billions of people think...
I am an angry, bitter person. Anyone who knows me decently well (or anybody who has read my writing) knows this well. So I wanted to write about the complexity of forgiveness. The conventional wisdom has a serialized view of forgiveness. Let's say someone gets mad...
Let's imagine that one person is forced to go on medication that puts them in serious pain. Another person cuts them self. The former will be fighting tooth and nail to get off said medication. Doctors won't listen to him. The latter will be hospitalized and...
There is a tendency to view empathy as a positive thing. In my experience of it, it's more like a technology (say splitting the atom) that can be used for good or for ill. I find that a lot of the people who lack empathy also less judging because they don't have the...
Hope isn’t some kind of unlimited resource one can just tap into at will (it’s marketed that way, but you will eventually see through the ad copy). Hope works more like a credit card. It gives you premature (and often badly needed) sustenance. The catch is that you...
If you do any kind of programming or even surf the web enough, you will run into error messages. Usually these error messages will give you an indication of what is going wrong. For example, when Dropbox failed the other night and I clicked on a video of mine that...
They tell police working on a case where someone is holding hostages that if they find out said hostage taker is a psychopath, they must reverse course, using a different set of tactics to try to get the hostages freed. I feel a similar way with people in social...