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Who deserves love

Pretty flowers, eyebrows low. Mouth in the shape of the letter 'O'. It's time to talk about love here on the Heartstar-program. I've recently read three books p...

The Psychology of Religion

Oh, lately I've been thinking about Religion Psychology. I just finished this fairly dense book about it by David M. Wulf called Psychology of Religion (part 1)...

What loneliness does to me

I don't think I'm more lonely then most people. I have a loving family and some good friends that drags me around. I go to school. I go to work. But I am single...

The hard feelings of White Privilege

Okay, today I’m going to talk about matters that are very new to me, things that are still processing. I’m going to reflect on why it would feel so shameful for...

The embarrassment that is being a Jordan Peterson-fan boy

I have a pretty annoying history with Jordan Peterson. For a long, long while he was what he self would call my projected father figure and mode of reference. A...

The question of the meaning of life in the postmodern scene

The meaning of life is a similar theme to both the madman and the comic, says Terry Eagleton in the preface to his book, "The Importance of Life", part of the O...

The Who, How and Why of people tapering off their medication # 1

Hey, I want to start a little series here on this site. A pretty narrow-minded one to be sure, but one that I think would at least be important for me. I want t...

My home-made phobia of Demons

All over the 80s to the 90s there were a pretty hectic philosophical debate going on in some British journals about aesthetics and art. The fight surrounded Col...

A Call for Empathy Towards Schizophrenics

Mental illness can be a lonely war. The bizarre of these rare psychotic states isn’t easily translated to your fellow man, and true emphatic connections is on s...

Formation of the aesthetic consciousness

Not all perceptions of color and sound signals can be considered as an aesthetic perception that gives rise to aesthetic feeling and summaries in aesthetic eval...

The Dominance Hierarchy and me

Everyone here has heard The Bad Touch by Bloodhound Gang right? Or is that song worthy of a 90s kids meme? Well, if you are one of the few lucky assholes exclud...

Why acknowledging your capacity for evil is strengthening for your character

A hypothesis I have recently taken another step in understanding this lesson and I wanted to record it. I’m still processing though, and I don’t know if I have ...