"People who choose to exit a group where they know they will be likely cut off–shunned, disconnected by all of their family and friends– face incredible suffering, pain, and hardship. The level of pain is unimaginable for the average person. If they do not succumb to the pressures to r...
my mind is turned off. can my anger move the cement stair where I slammed my toe, even when I kick it again in retribution? can it fix the plasma screen I broke when I saw that laughing face that I hate? can it bring back the window I shattered to make a point to my brother as...
” he quips. “The thing that I’ve always tried to do through my own work and through organizations such as New Forms is really help lead the discourse on the importance of those spaces and the understanding of the respect for culture that happens in them.”...
Rabbi Yanklowitz acknowledges the abrupt ending of the book of Jonah and suggests that, “We might write a fifth chapter entertaining the possibilities: does Jonah die, repent, return to Israel, or move to Nineveh? Does he get on board with God’s message of forgiveness, or is he punished...
Unconditional love doesn’t have to be earned or proven. It is timeless and endless. If you want to learn how to experience unconditional love (as much as is possible for humans), you have to be willing to rewire your conditioned habits. ...
Some people, for example, may feel like they are falling, and jerk themselves awake to avoid hitting the ground. Others may hear voices as they are trying to drift off to sleep, or experience a vivid sensation that someone or something is in the room. Sensory experiences such as feeling ...
Point is that people can have emotions about fictional characters. They can care about them the way they care about humans. That’s relatability. But most people are pretty picky about who they actually like. Take me. Some people absolutely love me. And rightly so. I’m a f$&%ing delig...
Love is really not the case for Harry Dresden. Quite the opposite. InGrave Peril, Dresden’s girlfriend Susan crashes a vampire party and pays a price for it. She is almost turned into a vampire and has to fight constant urges to feed on humans. So she has left the city and Dresden...
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WORLD???Clearly it was on this stranger’s mind in a big way at some point today, and it made me think: is that what I write about here? What’s wrong with the world? Sometimes, I guess. Did they find what they were looking for, I wonder.When...
Interestingly enough, it does not appear that humans are hardwired to hate based on skin color. Hatred is believed to be a learned emotion, and recent studies have shown that racism is also learned, rather than innate. When ancient people adopted the "us vs. them" theory, they were being...