Many people seem to think these days they can do anything they want with no negative consequences—that doing whatever they want is their right, and if they get negative...

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human...

Since when have human beings developed this belief that no one in power could possibly be corrupt, or have ulterior motives to benevolent governance? It seems impossible for them...

To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly.  It was a common form of execution in the ancient world.  It is generally associated with Rome’s killing...

Since when has this (the title of the article) become the mantra of civilized humanity? I grew up in a time when this thought would never enter your mind,...

Remember the bad kids in high school? The ones who didn’t make it onto the honour roll or the dean’s list? In my day they were the long-haired kids...

Todd Hayen The ultimate “good for you” is to be dead. At least that is what it would be if some outside authority, or entity, was watching our human...

Todd Hayen I read Marx and Engels’ The Communist Manifesto when I was 17, and I got detention for it. Actually, I got the detention for reading it in...

Todd Hayen Everyone knows Maslow and his pyramid of needs, right? Don’t feel bad if you don’t; it is just one of those psychological concepts psychologists like to come...

J R Leach In the dusty corridors of intellectual exploration, I, an avid follower of Jordan B Peterson’s insights into Jungian psychology and Nietzschean philosophy, find myself confronting a...

Todd Hayen Here’s another weird thing I think is going on. Like most things I observe, you have probably observed this too, and probably way before I first thought...

Todd Hayen Any of us who pay even the least bit of attention has been made aware of the problems of fast food and grocery-store-bought processed food. We are...

Todd Hayen We now are all suffering from acute trauma, in a trauma nation. I would venture to say in a trauma world, but I am not certain of...

Todd Hayen I went to the local mall this weekend and seeing all the pseudo-men and pseudo-women walking around and seeing all the glittering products attempting to appeal to...

Todd Hayen I really need everyone’s input on this one because it does scare me if it is true. And I am curious if my own anecdotal experience with...

Sylvia Shawcross Anyways…. I was thinking about history again. I’m thinking maybe “they” are right. The ones who live in a perpetual future and only spend their present tearing...

Todd Hayen Along with mRNA coursing through our veins (probably not yours and definitely not mine) there is a good wallop of narcissism. But that didn’t only come with...

Edward Curtin Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to...

Todd Hayen It is a mystery to me why human beings, as a whole, seem to think that the entire workings of the universe have been “figured out.” And...

Todd Hayen There’s a clinical term in psychology, which in the vernacular would be described with the phrase, “I think I am going crazy.” This is “cognitive dissonance.” I...