Recent content by LOVEthroughINTELLECT

I used to be worked up a lot about moral issues like capital punishment (I was a vehement opponent) but any more such matters are rarely on my heart or mind. What changed? I no longer believe in Enlightenment progress and, in particular, "moral progress". It would not surprise me to find that...

In other words, if something is bothering a person it is wrong for him/her to request that mechanistic things like theories from sociology not be brought up. Furthermore, you are saying that it is wrong to ask that the academic work of middlemen be left out and to want to hear directly the...

So what? Useless for what? Most of the responses have been about "news" even though it has been made clear that "news" is almost completely irrelevant. Then what do you see? Why is immorality the dominant theme in almost everything we do? Nobody said that Donald Trump appeals to...

This thread is not about "news". This is "news": "A person was shot at this location at this time. The victim is in critical condition at this hospital. No arrests have been made. Please call this number if you have any information that would assist in the investigation." This thread is not...

Whether or not it is "inspiring", it is a break from the hubris, corruption, sensationalism, etc. that dominates sports media content. But don't worry, stories like Jonathan Papelbon grabbing his crotch (was he making an adjustment or was it an obscene gesture towards fans? Important questions...

And it, along with the first post, also says nothing about "news". Also, it was requested that sociological analysis, like all of this "good news is not news", not be brought up. Yes, if a dog bites a man, that is not news. If a man bites a dog, that is news. Most of us have heard such analysis...

I wish that Notre Dame football would get more attention. Instead we get almost constant coverage of the shenanigans of John Calipari, the off-the-field adventures of Johnny Manziel, the dysfunction of the NCAA, the greed of the haves and the plight of the have-nots in NCAA conference...

You are forgetting about the evidence that the system is rigged. You know, like how the leaked DNC emails showed how party leaders conspired to keep Bernie Sanders from getting the nomination. Meanwhile, I do not know if it was revealed in any leaked emails, but the fact that the televised...

If you think that I have everything wrong, please tell us why. But a little empathy might help. People make it extremely difficult to see any good in humans and the world. Your empathy and compassion as I (and probably 99% of the population) struggle with that reality would be appreciated.

Please, no explanations from sociology, Darwinian evolutionary theory, academic psychology, theology, philosophy, etc. Please, no lengthy out-of-context Scripture. I want to hear from inside the depths of your psyche your thoughts and feelings on why it is that the people and events that are...

Thank you for the part that I put in bold. I have been telling everybody I talk to about it that Donald Trump is the least diplomatic person I have ever seen seek public office in the U.S. He may be the least diplomatic person ever to seek a formal position of power in any political system...

The United States of America is not a democracy.

There have probably been people in positions of great authority in the past, even in elected positions in the federal government of the United States of America, who were as bad as Donald Trump. But the news media did not investigate or report it. The way that I understand history, it all...

In the Huffington Post article psychologists are quoted as saying that people with low intelligence gravitate to ideologies that structure and simplify things. What they do not say is that liberal ideology also simplifies things in that manner. An ideology--this seems oxymoronic or something...

"There are other ways too in which we are induced to host as our personal failings the iniquities of the outside world. In his masterly analysis of the effects of French colonial rule in North Africa, Frantz Fanon demonstrated how the impress of distal power can end up as hatred and strife...