True Humility; False Humility

Much thought about humility, and how to instill it, is wrong. True humility comes from a realization that other people have valuable qualities, not from the belief that one does not have valuable qualities himself. When defined and practiced this way, humility becomes a...

Integrative Conception of Human Being

The deeper problem with religions such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and  Buddhism is that the spirituality is seen as divorced from physicality, which leads to similar separation in social reality. The people with spiritual inclinations go into monasteries or...

Thinking and Feeling

Here we are seeing a non-valued duality that some people want to proclaim as valued. There are rationalists who see feeling as an inferior function or mental illness; there also are people who equate rationality with coldness, dryness and nastiness that are not necessary...

Wisdom and Strength

There are people possessing of wisdom and there are people possessing of strength; and often these are not the same people. There are plenty of young guys who have very strong personalities from being in the military or playing football, who don't know very much. And then...

Old People and Children

Today I had the experience of walking an old woman to a supermarket, and it got me thinking about the way in which the old people are treated in places such as Australia and United States. Many of them get locked up in nursing homes where they are frequently subject to...

Wisdom Thinkers reflect on 9/11: Ten years after

In recent years, good efforts have been made to advance the cause of peace through dialogue, but as time passes, the concept of bound communities talking across lines of separation is proving to be an insufficient starting point toward the outcome of a peaceful world. Our...

Search for better middle

There are many people who look for the middle; but the middle can be found in any number of places. The middle between private sector and public sector can be found in both preventing the other from doing its job; or it can be found in both being able to do their work and...

"Conventional wisdom", science, and conmen

My writing on a number of issues, such as challenging the conventional explanation of the fall of the Roman Empire, has been described as presumptious. The response is that, when conventional explanations are false, challenging them and replacing them is a service done to...

Obama, McCain, Kissinger: American Realpolitiks

I love Zoe Strauss. Here is a post she just did about an exchange between Obama and McCain about Kissinger. The post then goes on to provide links and information about the controversial career of Kissinger..."war criminal". Go Zoe! "During the presidential debate Obama and...