The more you love, the more you can love— and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had Time Enough, he could love all of the majority who are decent and just. –Robert A. Heinlein The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
So, do you mean to say, “love thy neighbor as thyself” is the best that we can do for an objective moral principle? Yes. Then it seems that I need to get right to work on better loving myself. Yes.
A spirited discussion developed on the topic of morality. Where does one begin to think about such an expansive idea? A promising launch point was suggested. Morality, what is good, and it’s opposite, is rooted in our visceral response to the external world. In short pleasure is an indication of what is good, and…
Another day, a weirdly warm fifty degrees, but the usual gray for February. Was reflecting upon a meeting with friends last night. I flashed back to the 60s where coffee shops were places for songs of resistance to a war, and for building alternative community. Our colonial forebears likewise met in the public houses…
Its Monday morning. The day after the Super Bowl, and feeling blue. There is good-natured banter between staff here at Starbucks. Awareness of the chatter, and the David Bowie lyric in the background, “We can be Hero’s for just one day…” is pulling my spirit toward the bright side. Certainly my funk is the…
I am delighted to offer a guest post from a friend, and a fine writer. The choice is perennial and ancient, and as contemporary as that offered to Neo in the Matrix movie, “You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe….
People claim to want freedom. In good faith attempts are made to set up political freedom. People also proclaim metaphysical freedom. They struggle to free slaves. They make liberty a supreme value. The loss of freedom by imprisonment is a punishment that is hard to bear. Liberty is cherished……. It is not true that…
And freedom, oh freedom, well that’s just some people talkin’ A lyric line from the song Desperado by Glenn Frey and Don Henley is how I feel right now. We worship at the Shrine of Freedom in this country. Lately I wonder if there is much behind the curtain. I happily accepted a invitation…
Street violence was reported in Berkeley last night. Riot police, students and tear gas is never a good combination. The cancelled speaker is an editor for the Breitbart News Network, which was headed until recently by a senior Trump advisor. “So now it begins,” I thought upon waking to this news report. A drumbeat…
After two sessions discussing the work and sayings of Albert Einstein, he remains one of my heroes. Einstein is remembered for his worldview altering theories of Special Relativity and General Relativity. The math and the experiments show that space and time and matter and gravity exist in dynamic relationship. Space and time are no…
