An artist’s depiction of the interconnections between blogs in the “blogosphere.”
Here are the ten most popular posts on my blog from this past year. Continue reading Most Popular Post of 2020
All posts by John Messerly
The Art of Loving
I previously have written a number of posts on love but I have not mentioned a small book I read in my early twenties, and the first book I gave to Jane—who would later become my wife—just weeks after meeting her—Erich Fromm’s, The Art of Loving. It begins: Continue reading The Art of Loving
Transcendence Without The Bull
by Lawrence Rifkin MD
A rush of powerful, transforming emotion. A bolt of altered perspective. A love that overwhelms. An unmediated encounter with pure beauty. A profound realization of significance—or insignificance. When a humanist has a “wow” experience, by what name should we call it? Transcendence? Continue reading Transcendence Without The Bull
Summary of Uscinski’s, “On Conspiracy Theories: A Primer”
© Darrell Arnold Ph.D.– (Reprinted with Permission)
Joseph Uscinski’s Conspiracy Theories: A Primer
The Survival of Humanity
by Lawrence Rifkin MD
An existential catastrophe would obliterate or severely limit the existence of all future humanity. As defined by Nick Bostrom at Oxford University, an existential catastrophe is one which extinguishes Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently destroys a substantial part of its potential. Continue reading The Survival of Humanity
