Tag: Human Behavior

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...