If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown ...
Barack Obama likes to point to General Motors as the poster child for the job creation success of his economic policies. However, whatever your sentiments about the government's bailout of General Motors, for every job Barack Obama 'saved-or-created'...
Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.
If you look at 'The X-Files' generally, we did 202 episodes. About 80% of them are not 'mythology' episodes, which tend to be the epic episodes. They deal with the big conspiracies, the search for Mulder's sister. They deal with what I would call the...
Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom.
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Capitalism has become systemically risky when a single financial algorithm like the one that David X. Li created brought the entire global economic system close to collapse in 2008.
It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while there are certainly hellfire...
Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more emotional they are, the more spiritual they are. But, as we will...
For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into “let’s all be the same.” Male and female biological differences are discounted, because “male” and “female” are considered “outdated social constructs,” and while that is par...
Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the mor...
For more than twenty years, I have been seeking a way to be both rational and spiritual. I have been looking for a ray of hope in an otherwise-compartmentalized world in which people segregate religious aspirations and rationality in the hope of not ...
Their talk was endless, compulsive, and indulgent, sometimes sounding like the remains of the English language after having been hashed over by nuclear war survivors for a few hundred years.
No change in the balance of political parties can alter the general determination that no class should be excluded from contributing to and sharing responsibility for the state.
Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
I have a general sense of excitement about the future, and I don't know what that looks like yet. But it will be whatever I make it.
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
Getting into shape helped get me into a better mood, and when I'm in a better mood, I'm funnier. My general attitude is better.
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
