Is Tolerance All It Is Thought To Be? Is There Something Better?
(This article is in two parts and each will support the other). We are being told the world needs to be tolerant of all beliefs and all opinions. Postmodernism’s claim
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The Marriage of Facts and Truth
Do you believe the sun won’t rise tomorrow or that the north pole will be 110 degrees on Christmas Eve? Why not? Because of what we call facts that are
Continue readingWe Find Truth with Straight Thinking
We control our emotions by controlling our thinking, so let’s make sure the foundation for our thinking is truly straight and will help us control our emotions in the way
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Evaluating Our Mental Hemispheres
As some of you know, I come from the southern hemisphere. Can you make a quick journey through your imagination and think how upside-down it all can seem to be
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Manage Emotions to Strengthen the Grip on Yourself
Keep three words in mind when you want to use more tools to teach yourself and others the management of emotions. They are: distract, disconnect, reframe. All three are ways to
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Healthy Emotions! What Is Their Value?
Emotional Control (continued) Have you ever noticed that happy people tend to control their emotions better than angry people? I wonder why? Happiness produces a state of relaxation and in
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Changing the Source of All Our Mental Darkness
All hate, destructive anger, and black-heartedness come from a well-known source. We must change the source of hate, bitterness, and all our mental darkness. So what is that source? We
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Crooked Thinking Is In Air That Is Thick with Hate
You may remember the song “What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love.” It’s never been in greater need. Crooked thinking leads to crooked speaking, and hate in the
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Finding Truth Without an Abundance of Evidence
Straight Thinking About Facts — Part 2 There’s even more to straight thinking about facts than the issues to which I referred in my last article. We must consider how
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Thinking About Facts Must Be “Straight” Thinking
Straight thinking is also all about the facts. What facts? All that can be known. And how do we define a fact? Facts are truths that can be verified in
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The Fading Art of Standing Out
Have you recently experienced the intense pressure of current “groupthink”? It seems so many topics (once considered personal decisions) are now subject to invasive demands that you just go along
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Straight Thinking Demands Honesty and Truthfulness
Straight thinking is all about another “moral” necessity: honesty and truthfulness. Honesty not only includes telling the whole truth accurately, but honesty must be the motivation when seeking to tell
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