Yearly Archives: 2020

Suppose a crazy psychopath has taken a child hostage and is using that child as a shield against the police seeking to rescue. At such [...]

Many people want to or claim to stand for God. That means they want to represent God and to challenge those who malign [...]

We sometimes succumb to such improper actions and succumb so frequently and so grievously that we may feel that there is an unscalable distance between [...]

If unseasonal rain ruins a celebrity’s makeup, then how they actually look becomes exposed.  Makeup can generically refer to the carefully crafted appearance that people [...]

Some people say, “I am rational; I don’t accept irrational ideas such as faith.”  While rationality is a vital tool in the human search for [...]

Some people think that jumping over the world, with all its problems and complications, is the way to reach God. Yes, spiritualists don't want to [...]

We sometimes feel, “Good things rarely happen to me, but bad things happen repeatedly. Things happen to me, never for me. If only [...]

Suppose a person is so sick as to not have the strength to lift even small objects. We won’t condemn them for being weak; we [...]

Why we do something determines how we do it and how long we do it.  Suppose we study a subject such as philosophy to impress [...]

If we are to study any subject, we feel more motivated if we understand the purpose of that study. For example, if we are told [...]

We often dread death because we feel that it destroys everything that gives meaning to our life. When we see death as the destroyer of [...]

Suppose we are walking along a road and get pushed by some passerby into a ditch. We will be disturbed, but we will soon pick [...]

Suppose someone is driving on a straight, smooth road. They might seem to be a good driver, but how good they are will become better [...]

Suppose we have a watchdog guarding our house. If a suspicious-looking stranger appears, that dog would bark to alert us. But if we neglect and [...]

We all are prone to temptation, especially to the temptations that we have indulged in the past and that we are habituated to. If we [...]

Understanding God is most difficult because he is the biggest reality in all of existence. By definition, he is supreme and is therefore superior to [...]

The equality of all people is enshrined as a sacred modern value. This contrasts with medieval societies where hierarchies were often rigid and upward mobility [...]

Amid a pandemic, when certain areas are identified as red zones, we are extremely careful. When we go to those areas, we don't thoughtlessly or [...]

We humans are naturally progress-seeking. The hope that tomorrow will be better than today is what fuels most of our endeavors. Indeed, it gives us [...]

Suppose we give a bag full of warm clothes to someone traveling to a cold place. If they somehow believe that their destination isn’t all [...]