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09/17/23 A Quora user asks: “Is censorship ever justified in the name of protecting social values, or does it inherently stifle free expression?” My answer: The political establishment is the nominal guardian of social values at any given time. It guards them because it  defines  them (or does it?) and reserves the unilateral right to do so. Whatever the establishment wishes to subvert or cast in a bad light will be made to seem problematic. How do you as a citizen react to what your culture tells you is good or bad, moral or immoral? Are you at odds with your culture as it is presented to you by corporate media? Just consider those questions ... A Quora user asks: “What are the advantages of being an "individual" or "individualistic person" in today's society? My answer: You are burdened with the responsibility of thinking and acting on your own behalf, alone, if need be. The consequences of your thoughts, words, and actions are rightfully yours, however injuri...

Monday, January 30 2017      A veil is a worn to conceal one's virtue and preserve one's humility.  Though veils and masks are physical objects, the above quote from Victor Hugo's Les Miserables  is not strictly literal or symbolic in intention. That's what makes it so intriguing. Whatever blessing or blessings set you apart from others, there is the opportunity to practise modesty. Among the sayings attributed to American statesman Benjamin Franklin is this: "Vice wears a mask because she knows she is ugly." To this I would add that vice is habitually brazen and defies anyone to mention her deliberately displayed ugliness.  Jeremiah 17:9 New Living Translation "The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is? May 6th, 2024 If the life of a good man is itself a hang-able offense, then hang hanging! Who is it under the executioner's cowl? 2025/03/04 Behind a man who forgives too ...

June 21 If humans are made of atoms, which is deemed to be non living, then how did we become living things? What gives us a mind on its own, having the ability to think, to feel, to be alive?  Not our atoms, that’s for sure. It’s true that you can dehumanize a human being by reducing him to his component particles. At a certain level of magnification, the person who thinks, feels, lives is lost. This clump of cells is actually a clump of atoms, less than a shadow. If you take a strictly physicalist/materialist view of the universe, the human person becomes something like a phantom presence hiding inside a biochemical machine.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- June 22 Are we born without any control over our lives? No, when we’re born we are not in control of anything. All we can do is scream and writhe. Just imagine the sudden sensory overload the newborn must experience! Conscious control of our ...