You Aren’t a Slave to Your Feelings

Over the last couple years, I’ve heard/read folks say that we cannot control our feelings.  By extension, what’s implied is that we aren’t responsible for who/what we are. This is true to a degree.  Genetics and upbringing play the biggest roles in how who we are.  Yet, believing that is the end-all is determinism and...

Protecting You from Your Feelings

We shouldn’t feel the need to be protected from our feelings.  Now this isn’t me advocating malicious intent or bullying, such things are wrong and should be condemned without exception.  I’m talking about people who seem to look for ways to be offended.  Are your presuppositions and beliefs challenged?  Does that hurt your feelings?  Well...

It’s Time to Get Real with Ourselves

Are you happy?  Really happy?  When you are alone are you content with who you are and what you have?  I think most if not all of us struggle with this, not everyone possesses enough introspection to realize it though. Sometimes discontentment means a problem with entitlement, especially in a victim-focused culture.  Other times that...

Hurt Pt. 2

In my last entry, I discussed victimhood and the culture growing around that.  Pain is a shared experience, it is one of the things that all humans everywhere face.  Most wish to avoid it, however more and more American culture appears to be embracing it, placing people into categories based on historical and emotional pain...

Emotion

In our era of skepticism, cold, unadulterated rationality is often valued.  Science has lifted the curtain on certain superstitions and wives’ tales.  Most people in the modern western world strive to be rational, and scientific.  We don’t want to be like our ancestors that believed diseases were cause by curses.  Most of the time we...