Freethinker's corner
I will not go quietly into the night!
Author: drenn1077
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Admonishments are frequently voiced endorsing the avoidance of judgments. “Who are you to judge?” is a frequent question associated with this admonishment. (There are many permutations of the arrangement of this question) Assertion: Everybody judges. When experiencing a new situation or upon encountering someone new an involuntary process of judgment occurs within the mind. It…
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Originally posted on Freethinker's corner: How do you punish a murderer? Someone takes a life, whether remorseful or not, is still a murderer. Do you take the murderer’s life? Does this bring back the murdered? Does this do anything but make a murderer out of the whole of society? If you think a life is…
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Every year has been the same. Improvements were desired but not accomplished, or if accomplished, then lost. Stability is desirable. Humanity is polarized into various groups. Each group opposes all other groups in some way. If you do not adhere to all of the tenets of a specific group the members will become vicious or…
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Resolutions can be made at any time during the year. Yet, it has been a tradition that change is desired at the beginning of the new year. The following are my resolutions or changes, or behavior modifications…. To be friendlier to those less mentally fortunate. To be less reactive to those intentionally agitating. To be…
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Each person is an independent unit. Each individual directs or influences their own fate through conscious decision. Independent humans can be influenced by other independent humans. Independence of independent humans is diminished by this influence. The optimum state is independence. The independent human rejects or resists control by other humans. Even if the influence is…
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TEDDY-BEARS ARE YOUR FRIENDS… Did you have an imaginary friend when you were but a child? Did your imagination make that friend seem real? Did you talk to that friend and then hear it respond in your mind? There seems to be a need, even in the adult human, for guidance or consultation from a…
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There is a human phenomena known as “in-group”, sometimes also known as “in-group thinking”. Humans form groups. Each group considers itself the in-group. Other groups are looked upon unfavorably. Sometimes a group forms and develops actual animosity for other groups that do not subscribe to their particular beliefs. Group forming in itself is divisive. Members…