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Fighting off gratitude with a pitch fork
Quite a common self-help tip for becoming happier is to be more grateful. I’m sure I’m not alone in having a knee jerk bad reaction to that word. I have great parents but they made the [...]
I’m not sure it’s enough to debunk the notion of evil in an abstract way, as I did in the last article so I’ve decided to finish off this theme of morality, for now at least, by showing you how it easy it would be for you to be evil.
In previous articles I’ve described us [...]
The last article was on how weak so-called conscience is, the arbitrariness of the terms good and evil and how we’re better off in terms of personal development if we stop kidding ourselves about how moral we are or how immoral others are.
But last time any really astute people reading may have noticed that I [...]
If you really believe in the notions of good and evil as inherent moral states, and that you are good and that there are people out there who are evil, then in this article I aim to rip your conviction over such thinking to shreds. For the sake of personal development, of course.
‘Your’ understanding of [...]
We’re not shouting through megaphones at the Man anymore
A speaker came to my university not so long ago to talk about the dying out of student activism and protest – I guess the figures are showing that we just aren’t kicking up a fuss about the Man anymore. To me that sounds about correct.
There was [...]
When we leave school we have one big choice to make: what we do next. If you’re going to university then that means choosing a subject or two. If you’re going to work then that means choosing a job.
In both these cases we can fall back on a number of subjects on which to make [...]
One night a few weeks ago I was sitting in my flatmate Lucy’s bedroom with our friend Amy and the three of us were watching the football match between Liverpool and Arsenal.
Not my choice: I find football boring. I only watch certain World Cup matches when England is playing – and why I do that [...]
When I was fifteen I became interested in learning who I was exactly, in purely psychological terms. What sort of person was I? What made me tick? How would I behave in any given situation? And perhaps most importantly - what was it about me that made me ‘me’?
So, being a teenager with a flat-rate [...]
In this article I’m going over the linguistic techniques we use to be honest without being hurtful. I’m also going to cover what it means to judge whether we should tell the truth or not based on how hurtful we think it could be. The overall question is: do we ever have to lie to [...]
As mentioned in a previous article Click here, you can make a living in three positive ways in regards to society: maintain the world, improve it or offer alternatives to it. You need to have read that article to fully understand this one. It doesn’t take long to do.This article explores how the IMI (imagination, [...]
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