A Guide to Understanding the Ideas of the 21st Century
I’ve been reading a book, actually listening to one, though I am reading one, called “The Righteous Mind” by Jonathan Haidt. It’s a fascinating book, one that covers a wide variety of topics and themes, but the overarching theme is all about moral psychology, specifically, three different aspects of it. He breaks down his book…
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The title of this post, as you can tell, poses a question: What is good and what is evil? Seems pretty straightforward, right? We all have our own preconceived notion of good, as well as our own conception of evil. But who is that wrote these moral codes within us? Certainly, if you’re of the…
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In recent years, and I use recent broadly, there’s been this idea floating around that “everyone has the same capacity to achieve well in life, though some have put in more effort than others, or even they were just lucky.” Essentially, the idea is, almost everyone is the same, more or less, and if you…
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I was speaking to co-worker today, and I don’t ever want to come off in a way that ever sounds like I’m portraying someone in a way that could be taken as negative, but he said something that really kind of bothered me. At least, it made me think a lot about certain things. So,…
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Okay, so it may or may not come to a big surprise to most of you, but I don’t exactly watch a lot of movies. I’m not trying to dog on the people who do enjoy movies, but it feels like, to me, if you’ve seen one good movie, you’ve pretty much seen them all. Now,…
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I was listening to discussion between two individuals the other day, and one of them had this quote. You may know who I’m quoting, and if so, you might even know where I’m going with this post. So here’s the quote: “And people say, do you believe in God? And I think a bunch of…
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I don’t know if it’s a good thing, but I’ve been listening to a lot of Jordan Peterson and Friederich Nietchze recently. It may seem weird, but I think it’s because they’re saying a lot of profound things, and that could be because they are indeed, profound people. But that begs the question…what is constitutes…
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New Age Lessons 