Tonight I’m feeling anxious about the possibility of an immense economic collapse. I’ve been reading about lots of people being laid off. Most of us with 401K’s are afraid to even look at our quarterly statements. The country is running out of fossil fuel and there isn’t anything realistic to…
Here is a link to an excellent essay by two of my best friends. It talks about how labeling plays out in both art and real life and how labels are both irrelevant and destructive. I attended that workshop they refer to, Clarion, and that's where I met them. That…
Why are humans so repulsed by the idea that they are animals? Perhaps "Terror Management Theory" can shine some light on this important issue. When I started this blog in 2006, one idea that motivated me was that human beings simply can't deal with the idea that they are animals.…
People create their Gods in their own image and likeness. This is not an argument that God does or does not exist. It's merely an observation that what people claim to know about God is always a projection. This thought that God is a projection occurred to me when looking…
In this article, Elizabeth Loftus details how "many individuals can be led to construct complex, vivid and detailed false memories via a rather simple procedure." The effect is unnervingly powerful.