The unjust cry out for revenge justice: “No Justice, No Peace! The envious shout for equal outcome justice: “Fair Share!” Feminists rally for Pro-choice justice: “Abortion is a Civil Right!” The LGBT coalition demands lifestyle justification justice: “We demand equality and not your approval!” Social justice advocates crave an inclusive world: “Check Your Privilege!”…
Headlines daily declare man’s beastly behavior. Here are just a few of today’s headlines: From the AP: “Indictment: Woman poured toilet water in roommate’s drink” From ABC News: “Husband who had blamed cold medicine pleads guilty to killing his wife, stabbing her 123 times” From Chicago Sun Times: “Saturday shootings kill 2-year-old boy, wound…
Ressentiment is the French translation of the English word resentment. In philosophy and psychology it is a concept that was of particular interest to the existentialist philosophers. According to the existentialists, ressentiment is a sense of hostility directed at that which one identifies as the cause of one’s frustration, that is, an assignment of…
“The whole world is watching” was a chant by antiwar demonstrators outside the Conrad Hilton Hotel the evening of August 28 during the 1968 Democrat National Convention in Chicago -Wikipedia “Prologue, August 29, 1968” If you lived through the 60s as I have you will remember the numerous protests across the nation. If…
You don’t feel right. You feel unsettled and unable to sleep at night. You feel achy, restless and depressed. You wonder if there is something in the air. You feel that there is something going on but you can’t put your finger on it. One day, on the way to work, you stop for…
If anyone had a reason to be politically correct it was the deported and exiled Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. But, confronted not with a raging Twitter feed or a riotous SJW protest but with life or death choices, they acted in full confidence in who they were. They were the chosen people of God.…
If you’ve spent any time on Twitter you are well aware that people hold grudges – election result grudges, offense taken grudges and reply grudges generated when someone disagrees with your entrenched point of view. The ‘magic’ of holding grudges is that one can take offense out of thin air and then present the…
