Politics
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Trump and Norman Vincent Peale
In my last article, “An Insane Person for President?” I argued that someone completely disassociated from reality was insane, and that defined Trump. I even cited a comment from his niece, Mary Trump, a…
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An Insane Person as President?
Webster defines insane as “exhibiting a severely disordered state of mind,” “unable to think in a clear and sensible way,” or “people having a severely disordered state of mind.” All of those definitions…
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Trump and the Egyptian God Set
In my last article, “One Divine Moment for Republicans and a Magical One for Democrats,” I brought up the attempted assassination of Trump, who claimed had he not moved his head a quarter…
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One Divine Moment for Republicans and a Magical One for Democrats
The Democrats recently finished an enthusiastic and joyful convention, which caused me to reflect on what some would say were two magical or divine moments. There were two divine/magical instances in the last two months, one…
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Heading to a Cease-Fire in Ukraine?
There was an interesting article in the opinion section of the New York Times a couple of days ago. It was by Sergey Radchenko, who is an historian of the Cold War. It…
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Finding Objectivity Behind the “Veil of Ignorance”
In my last article, “Marx Embraced Capitalism” I talked about the need to discuss the fairest and most just way to distribute the wealth that Capitalism has created. The Problem of Subjectivity One…
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Ken Wilber’s Pre/Trans Fallacy
One of Integral philosopher, Ken Wilber’s, most important contributions to philosophy is his concept of the Pre/Trans Fallacy. Before this fallacy, mystical states of oneness were dismissed by modern rational people as a…
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The Need For Meaning
Do you ever wonder why people believe such crazy things? For example, Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election was stolen despite over 60 court cases looking at every aspect of the election…
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Reconciling “God” and Evil
One of the big issues for believers in God is to reconcile the nature of God with the existence of evil in the world. This area of study is called “Theodicy” which means…
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Does Humanity Have a Death Instinct?
The psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, included the death instinct in in his psychology. He did it reluctantly, but he noticed there were certain self-destructive impulses in humans that he couldn’t explain, like the impulse…
