Thought provoking
The hardest truth about happiness is that it's a choice.
Watch how people discuss their problems. They'll spend hours explaining why things are terrible, how unfair life is, and how others need to change. But suggest they might have the power to improve things and they suddenly have countless reasons why that's impossible.
Self-pity feels safer tha... See more
Watch how people discuss their problems. They'll spend hours explaining why things are terrible, how unfair life is, and how others need to change. But suggest they might have the power to improve things and they suddenly have countless reasons why that's impossible.
Self-pity feels safer tha... See more
Brain Food: The Hardest Truth
“The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.”
The reality of meliorism
This Teaching Clip made me think of you. Watch Matthew 6:11 by Jerry Flowers:
Matthew 6:11
Jesus echoes Israel’s exodus for our daily prayer - God will provide, not pharaoh, trust him.
Matthew 6:11 Give us this day our daily bread
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.” - Rumi
Confusing status with skill
The tenured philosophy professor at Princeton might not even be half as effective a teacher as the adjunct at the community college.
The head of surgery might be relatively better at meetings and politics than they are at actually helping patients.
Having a lot of social media followers doesn’t mean you’re really good at ma... See more
The tenured philosophy professor at Princeton might not even be half as effective a teacher as the adjunct at the community college.
The head of surgery might be relatively better at meetings and politics than they are at actually helping patients.
Having a lot of social media followers doesn’t mean you’re really good at ma... See more
Confusing status with skill
Status or Skill?
CREED
We believe in the one High God who out of love created
the beautiful world and everything good in it. He
created man and wanted man to be happy in the world.
God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the
earth. We have known this High God in the darkness,
and now we know him in the light. God promises in
the book of his word, the Bible, that... See more
We believe in the one High God who out of love created
the beautiful world and everything good in it. He
created man and wanted man to be happy in the world.
God loves the world and every nation and tribe on the
earth. We have known this High God in the darkness,
and now we know him in the light. God promises in
the book of his word, the Bible, that... See more
Like this for its language, tone - certainly not written in the standard white, paternalistic vernacular.
Come to the Temple
Come to your Temple here with liberation
And overturn these tables of exchange
Restore in me my lost imagination
Begin in me for good, the pure change.
Come as you came, an infant with your mother,
That innocence may cleanse and claim this ground
Come as you came, a boy who sought his father
With questions asked and certain answers found... See more
Come to your Temple here with liberation
And overturn these tables of exchange
Restore in me my lost imagination
Begin in me for good, the pure change.
Come as you came, an infant with your mother,
That innocence may cleanse and claim this ground
Come as you came, a boy who sought his father
With questions asked and certain answers found... See more
race was invented as a way to classify some people as less than human such that they could be exploited by others
I can feel that diminishment returning to everyday life. Everyone’s wrung out from the news and the terror inflicted by clown oligarchs and mad leaders and the general enshittification that is ensuing.