
It may burst your bubble to come too near
To this prickly truth I’m about to tell you, friend,
But I am under no obligation to become
A conspirator in your self-deceit.
It may burst your bubble to come too near
To this prickly truth I’m about to tell you, friend,
But I am under no obligation to become
A conspirator in your self-deceit.
Let us suppose that someone were to figure out how to train Silverback Gorillas to play football. And let us suppose that the gorillas were very good at it—especially, say, at the lineman positions—and outperformed their human counterparts at these positions consistently by 20%. And let us suppose that activists were to take up the cause of equal rights for gorillas, and that rich benefactors were to sponsor lawsuits on behalf of these rights, and that the media were to take up the cause to convince the public about how fair and just this is, and how it’s about time that a society became so enlightened as to break down the traditional barriers in this way.
Continue reading Gorillas in the NFL as Linemen(Regarding narcissist impostors and the church, respectively)
I’m going to tell you a thing
That you may not like at first,
But which you can surely accept
If you are willing both to look
And to admit what you see.
And after that, I’m going to ask you
Some questions that you may
Wish ever after I had not asked,
For they are troubling beyond
What many will endure.
It’s easy to underestimate the difference between the person who tries to do what’s right and the person who always tries to do it! Here are some brief observations from my time on Planet Earth so far:
Continue reading Doing What’s Right—and ALWAYS Doing ItI saw this meme on Facebook, and immediately liked it and disliked it!
Continue reading Is the “Internal Struggle” an Exemption from Responsibility for How We Treat Others?This is such a tough principle to navigate! How much should we “stand our ground”, and how much should we simply let people be the people they are, even if it steps on our toes?
I think this is one of the greatest philosophical questions we face as humans, and how we face it says a great deal about what kind of people we are. (And I don’t think I understand it all myself—just that it’s of huge importance.)
Continue reading What Should I Tolerate?To the question:
“Did you ever love your camp more than the truth?”
How shall they plead?
There is ever the hope in this world
That evil can be quietly avoided
And will simply go away
Without our heroism.
And we should know by now
If we can manage to pry open
Even one eye half way from its slumber
That it often does not.