Laurence Mesirow
I am a writer who has been concerned about the effects of modern technology on human living environments and human behavior for many years.
Why Does Hamas Keep Dreaming Its Truly Impossible Dream?
Hamas has lost another of its improbable conflicts with Israel. Its infrastructure has to be rebuilt AGAIN; it lost many of its mid-level commanders; its prized tunnel system has been severely damaged. And because...
Intermarriage and peace on earth
The other day I was engaged in a discussion with members of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle about how to get rid of all the racial, ethnic and religious hatred that has abounded in...
The Importance Of Having An Inviting Living Environment
The word acceptance has at least two meanings when it comes to personal relationships. First, there is internal acceptance: a person’s acceptance of himself. Then there is external acceptance: a person’s acceptance by the...
Becoming Immune To That Which Allows Us To Feel Alive
Immunity is a word that we normally use in several different contexts. We talk about acquiring immunity from an illness either through getting the illness once or else through a vaccination. In a completely...
Raising the curtain on our lives
It’s not only musical and theatrical performers who need an audience. All of us need to have an audience periodically. Somebody with whom we can share our joy and grief. Someone with whom we...
The importance of intuition for knowing the world
A couple of days ago, I was involved in a discussion about attitudes towards accepting something as the truth. More precisely we talked about the dichotomy of certainty vs. doubt. Many of the most...
The Use Of Hope To Move Us Into The Future
I would say that for all people it is difficult to go on living, unless they have hope. Hope is the anticipation that things are going to get better. It is an active emotional...
Shaping A Life To Prepare For Death
In a way, lives can be shaped, much the way a ceramic bowl can be shaped. Of course, the tools for shaping a temporal entity like a life are very different from the tools...
How Modern Technology Has Transformed Evil
Evil has always been a term that is very hard to define, and yet, in most cases, we know it when we see it. Being diabolical, cruel, heartless, and mean encompass aspects of evil...
Magical Thinking And The Need To Overcome Boredom
The other day, I was in a zoom meeting with my friends from the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle. Given that they are atheists, which I am not, their philosophical approach is how to replace...