“The Christian passion psychologically: Voluntary acceptance of suffering produces a transformation… sufficiently powerful to transcend tragedy and to keep malevolence at bay.”
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Don’t know what to say? Humanity is evil?
Hopelessness, powerlessness, God, and shame. Repressing our evil potential co-represses celebrating our goodness. Suffering is our fate, and why the Redeemer came. Psychology yaps out both sides of its mouth, so I prefer a Polish poet.
Noah and his damned movies irk my soul
When Noah seems to adhere to the norms of a 16-year-old young man, it is coincidence, not conformity.
Fooled by momentary appeal. Paul Simon and Robert Pirsig
Culture and psychology have all the answers to malaise and melancholy, right? These artists weigh in…
Hate Trump?
Hate Trump?
That makes me sad. Sadder than anything he has done besides make us hate him. Hating him gives him power over us… I suppose if we all get to pour out our poison, at least it doesn’t stay inside us.
My love letter to you PS
A loving relative responded to “My love letter to you“: It is one thing to be sad about something, but if it persists and disrupts your life, you may not have “sadness”, you may have clinical depression. If so, please find help. There’s no doubt I was disabled for a little while by clinical depression.Continue reading “My love letter to you PS”
