Some Jungian analysts suggest that original sin relates to family of origin.The idea is in order to be ’saved’ from the original sin one must escape the dysfunction of one’s family of origin.
Original ’sin,’ as defined by theologians, takes many different forms. We are born with the sin of Adam, for instance. Or we are [...]
John McCain attempted to belittle Obama in their final debate by using sarcasm. Sarcasm is toxic. Sarcasm poisons relationships. Sarcasm poisons reasonable discourse. Sarcasm poisons conversation. Is this sarcasm an example of how McCain will deal with contentious world leaders?
The point here is quite simple. McCain uses his anger, manifested in sarcasm, to try to [...]
John McCain likes to say that one of his model Presidents is Teddy Roosevelt - the Republican President at the beginning of the 20th Century. This writer is also a fan of Roosevelt. There are stark differences in the world view of McCain and Roosevelt. Roosevelt was deliberately forceful, McCain reacts out of anger.
The similarities [...]
No one really knows. Or if they do they don’t agree with others equally confident of their knowledge. There are some things we can know - for instance, people are generally afraid of anything they do not understand. We step on harmless spiders and kill friendly snakes because we do not understand.
Many of us have [...]
Son,
I am confused again. The world changes faster than I can keep up. This article is being written to an internet site that offers distribution to the world wide web. We don’t charge anything for people to come here and browse around. But someone does. I am trying to understand the complexity of costs to [...]
Son,
In 1979 the Republican Party formed an un-holy alliance with the evangelical right wing. They hit that tar baby right square in the fat mouth of devil worship. Or is it the other way around - The Evangelicals signed a deal the the Republican Devil? Unlike Faust, neither will survive the deal with the devil.
In [...]
