Fallen angel, answering my own questions
Why reinvent the wheel, especially if I want to give you more on happiness. Today I want to reblog from a different source. The material is often about coaching but this piece is about your personal responsibility for being happy. You can read the original post: Better Choices for a Better New Year While this [...]
Since I'm on the topic of happiness, I want to share old motivational blurbs I found while going through old material. The first one resides in the Love's Dialogue Facebook group, and the second one in a personal post. Both reflect times when my mortal form needed to rediscover happiness and mindfulness. Rediscovering happiness Sunday [...]
I'm not exaggerating when I say these are 3 very simple ways to increase happiness. And I want to emphasise the SIMPLE part of this claim. In fact, and I also say this emphatically, the simplicity of the methods I want to explain here is surprising. Happiness is a state of mind Likely, you already [...]
On my daily worries about social issues, I happened upon the idea of generational conflict and happiness and how it affects the acceptance of misinformation, and therefore, social well-being. And while the current generation lacks accountability for their shortcomings, much of their failure is on their parents. What would Hitchens say about all the nonsense [...]
Doubting everything you hear or read isn't thinking critically; it's cynicism; it's as wrong as accepting everything you hear and read. Critical thinking is a complex process that (itself) requires a metacognitive commitment to thinking and all the mechanisms involved in forming ideas; it's thinking about thinking. Toxic Doubt By definition, critical thinking must be [...]
On how love and solidarity can help heal the world
On public perception of privacy Saturday, December 23 of 2017, 10 minutes after midnight People love to decry big brother as the enemy of privacy, the end of freedom. Too often those same people are willing to share intimate information on any social media platform to which they have access. They are watching Are "they" [...]
Refreshingly, I'm able to bring you some hope for Intellectualism today and from someone with whom I disagree on several points. Intellectual honesty As I wrote yesterday on my rant about an intellectual I "respect" (and who proceeded to block me on Twitter after I requested verification of claims made against the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau), [...]
Let me, first of all, explain what I mean by the death of intellectualism. I promise I'm not being deliberately provocative as I tend to be most of the time. Okay, I'm provocative all the time but this is an exception. Intellectualism is, by definition, the exercise of the intellect at the expense of emotions. In [...]
Santa On the day after Christmas I'll run all through your housedrinking whiskey with Santachasing after that mouse When we catch him we'll pet him and give him kisses too Then we'll pour some more whiskey and wait naked for you The children won't see me as I'm not here for themBut the lies that [...]