Because perception is inherently fallible, logic is duped by empirical evidence. Our five senses are notoriously weak and prone to error. Hundreds of optical illusions are readily available to prove the point. Every scientific error had the support of logic. In short, perception itself is woefully inadequate to assess reality, writes poet, playwriter and essayist, William Hamnet Wall, first …
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What are the Judeo-Christian values and why they matter more than ever
The term “Judeo-Christian values” is frequently used. I am one who uses it. Judeo-Christian values: I do so for the same reason the late great British prime minister Margaret Thatcher did: “The truths of the Judaic-Christian tradition,” she said, “are infinitely precious, not only, as I believe, because they are true, but also because they provide the moral impulse …
Read More »The scientific cure for Depression: Prayer
We live in an atheist, Western mainstream culture that almost completely denies the spiritual realm and its influence on human beings. You hardly hear anything positive about religious beliefs or traditional values, for that matter. This is in line with the Marxist ideology, which currently completely dominates Western mainstream culture. Read more about this here. Yet, the New Left …
Read More »China is not threatening American prosperity, but the U.S. lack of honesty and morality is
This is the most important point for Americans to learn: China is not threatening American prosperity because American middle class prosperity has been the main engine of China’s economic growth. So if the Chinese destroy American middle class prosperity, they are destroying the main engine of China’s economic growth—and the oldest civilization in the world is not a stupid …
Read More »The need for Metaphysical Reflection and Morality to foster Mental Health
Metaphysical Reflection and Morality: The ancient Greek philosopher Socrates said that an unexamined life is not worth living. We need to question more, to study ancient wisdom, to acquire knowledge about the key to happiness and how we may fulfil the purpose of life. Socrates believed that each man has access to the truths of life, as they are …
Read More »Denzel Washington philosophy of life: Top lessons learnt
In a time of growing turmoil and unrest, Denzel Washington’s philosophy of life and vivid message about the top lessons learned from his faith in God is well worth noting. As the New Left atheist movement has succeeded in tearing down the very fabric of unity and community in the West, with its hailing of free sex and drugs, the …
Read More »Why Western Values Underpin the World’s Best Countries
Elements of the left and their allies in the media are constantly driving this point home: White people are bad and so is the culture that they have created. Cultural Superiority? Everything we value as a society is bad and, more than that, little more than an ex post facto justification for the subjugation of non-whites. Western culture is white culture, and all …
Read More »Without Firing a Shot: How Islam Overcame the West
How Islam Overcame the West: In his well-known history of Western civilization, Edward Gibbon (1737-1794) offered an interesting “what if” scenario concerning the pivotal Battle of Tours (732 A.D.), when a massive Muslim army—which had terrorized, slaughtered, and enslaved every Christian on its path—was finally halted and defeated by the Franks in the middle of France. Had the Muslims actually won, Gibbon …
Read More »The American collapse of traditional values is splitting the nation at the seams
The UK Telegraph on March 31, 2023, reported “Joe Biden’s America is splitting at the seams.” The article reported results of a new survey of Americans undertaken by the National Opinion Research Center and the Wall Street Journal. The American collapse of traditional values: The survey finds startling declines in Americans faith in America, their communities, religion, and a sharp …
Read More »We need empathy: What can motivate us to do good to others?
This has become the age of depression and loneliness. Social bonds are withering, the atheist way of life is popular, the culture of fear is rampant – everywhere. It seems as though the more you hail free sex, the lonelier people get. How can this be? More than 50 % of the American population now live alone, writes historian …
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