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A Faithful Skepticism, or, “Happy New Year!”
What has been expressed as widespread mistrust is not of what is around us, such as churches, universities, stock markets, and governments; the distrust is of ourselves. We distrust who we are. And I don’t believe it. Continue reading
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Profit and Benefit
“What about this? And what about that?” Don’t talk of nourishment; let’s eat till we’re fat. We look to a promise and give up the now, We exchange our Being for furrowed brow. Continue reading
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Individual and Society: Gabor Maté and Jordan Peterson on Addiction
“…depression and addiction are related phenomena, and … they are symptoms of a more general malaise of which the world-ending consequences may be of our own doing.” Continue reading
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Trump as an Agitator: Prophets of Deceit
Trumpism, Prophets of Deceit suggests, is the inevitable outcome of a social, economic, and political order that generates human needs that it cannot satisfy. Continue reading
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Ambiguity
To come to a place of not knowing,a place of faith and flowing,a wild adventure and not a growing,an education in arriving and not going. I don’t know the ethics of utility,Experiencing real futility;I don’t know the Kantian category,Experiencing infinite trajectory. I don’t know who she will bring home,I don’t know which hair to comb;I… Continue reading
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The Choice We Face
“…if mass society is experienced as a force that wears us down as individuals, then our belonging to community should build us up…” Continue reading
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Mental Processing for Study and Life
We only have to remember that to be better is not necessarily connected to what we do or don’t do, to what we think or don’t think. Continue reading
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Changing Education Paradigms – Commentary
I would like to honour the contribution of the recently late Sir Ken Robinson. In this video I add commentary to his Royal Science Academy video. So I stop, with commentary to explicate some of the underlying features behind the ideas presented. Continue reading
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Meaning in a Murky Context
“the seeming destruction of context is the modus operandi of a more inclusive background which could provide both meaning and beauty to our lives.” Continue reading
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Naggingly Abstract Freedom: A Critical Review of “Three Cheers for Socialism”
Introduction It is due to my deep affinity to the historical heritages from which this discussion emerges from that I undertake it. My deep concern for my brothers and sisters who value both Chrisitian community and the experience of freedom is that they have become what they criticize. Not uncommonly, they criticize formations of “us… Continue reading
Raymond Klassen - Ideals and Identities 