‘Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it’
- George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism sucks. Realising that can aid personal development too, hence why I’m writing about it. It’s one of the oldest and, for centuries, most harmful models of thought ever created.
When patriotism was good
Many [...]
For a long time I was frustrated. Not depressed, not particularly anxious – just frustrated. Why? Well, that’s what this article is about. Or rather, isn’t about.
I used to unhappily wrestle with big doubts about anything and everything, but largely about people and life. A few weeks before this blog began I cathartically purged myself [...]
‘To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.’
- Life of Pi, Yann Martel (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Yann_Martell)
‘According to the scriptures, in his lifetime, the Buddha refused to answer several metaphysical questions. On issues such as whether the world is eternal or non-eternal, finite or infinite, unity or separation of [...]
People you meet sometimes fit into sort of Yin and Yang personality pairs. There are sometimes two people you meet who have one prominent trait in common, yet you feel differently about each of them based on this trait.
What you may love in one person you may hate in another, and often without realising it.
Here [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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