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  • Compassionate Reasoning

    It is out and Oxford and Amazon are keeping the price below $35. From the Introduction: “This book, more than any of my other books, centers on the creation of a new idea and a new approach to thinking, feeling, and doing that might help transform human relations for the better. I have encapsulated that in the phrase “Compassionate Reasoning” which is founded upon an exploration of and devotion to compassion as one of the most amazing and important emotions and ethical principles that brings healing and hope to human relations. The “reasoning” part rests on the importance for human reasoning, and moral reasoning in particular, as it is expressed and described over the centuries in at least five different approaches to virtue and moral decision-making. I have asked myself how I can acknowledge the roots of this journey toward this new idea and combination of skills and practices. When …

  • LEADERSHIP, IDEA, AND EVIL

     

    There is no mystery to evil.
    In fact making evil into a mystery,
    Is a bad idea.
    There are only good ideas and bad ideas.
    Anything that brings purposeful, unprovoked harm,
    To other sentient beings,
    Is a bad idea.
    Evil is a bad idea,
    In the hands of a leader.
    Be a leader only,
    With a good idea.
    If you must,
    Be a follower,
    For a good idea.
    Be smart enough,
    To be aware,
    Of your own bad ideas,
    And confine them to your head.
    If you cannot,
    Then you must leave immediately.

    The temptation to mystify evil is equal to our bewilderment at humanity, how many good people are led to do the worst things imaginable. The answer is not evil in them, but the evil of bad ideas inside leaders, and the tragedy of human obedience. The one alternative that has always worked is very good …

  • Thoughts on Our War World

    Issac

    STARVING COSMOS 

    How can we listen to sad love songs,
    When there are so many starving for love?
    Who the hell do we think we are?
    What rights for pity do we think we have,
    When outside our doorstep,
    Is a cosmos of love-starved beings?

    COSMIC ANNIHILATION CREATION

    We, we are the Higgs boson,
    We are elusive,
    Impossible to discover,
    Yet everywhere.…

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