an autistic perspective of death…
We've all experienced loss, and many know someone who is Neurodivergent or Autistic. Ever wonder why it takes longer for someone on the Spectrum to recover from loss, especially death? Here's some insight into those unseen struggles.https://thedignityofman.net/2026/03/23/an-autistic-perspective-of-death-2/
unexpected growth…
What does it mean to grow? And what experiences in life helped me grow the most? Find out more...
Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Nugent (1750)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82760/
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When virtue is banished, ambition invades the hearts of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. [Lorsque cette vertu cesse, l’ambition entre dans les cœurs qui peuvent la recevoir, & l’avarice entre dans tous.] Speaking of republics. See notes here on Montesquieu's meaning of…
AI and the rise of neo-paganism…what will be the ultimate outcome?
Many fear the rise of Artificial Intelligence. There is much to fear, but is it really the program we should be afraid of? Or something within ourselves as human beings? Find out how you can see this in a different light and what you can do to change your perspective...
Sari Valton tänäisessä ohjelmassa oli kriittistä puhetta itsekkyyden ajasta ja yksilökeskeisestä kulttuurista, ja peräänkuulutettiin hyveitä väljähtymis-alttiin arvopuheen sijaan, https://areena.yle.fi/1-77184233
Keitä oli vieraina, selviää ohjelmatiedosta. Itse olen alkanut vierastaa sellaistakin kehystämistä, koska se helposti ennakko-turhentaa mahdollista antia. Joskus tuntuu, että kiireisenä nykyaikana lähteet alkavat helposti painaa asiaa enemmän, positiivisesti tai negatiivisesti. Kyseessä on eräänlainen ad hominem -(virhe)päättely, jota voisi karttaa.
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Yksilökeskeinen kultturi on mennyt liian pitkälle ja olemme siirtyneet itsekkyyden aikaan. Olemme siis luoneet kulttuurin, joka tuottaa pahoinvointia. Näin toteaa psykologian emeritaprofessori Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen. Ratkaisu voisi olla se, että palauttaisimme klassiset hyveet olemassaolomme perustaksi. Arvopuhe on tyhjää, mutta hyveiden tavoittelu on konkreettista. Hyveiden puolesta puhuu filosofi Antti Kylliäinen.
you aren’t as valuable as you think…you are worth more
What value do you assign to yourself? Do you see yourself as worth more or less than you actually are? Consider how the world judges worth and what actions you can take to determine your true worth...https://thedignityofman.net/2026/03/09/you-arent-as-valuable-as-you-thinkyou-are-worth-more/
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion.François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶253 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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Self-interest will set all sorts of virtues and vices in motion. [L’intérêt met en œuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.] Present in the 1st (1665) edition. In the manuscript form it reads "L’intérêt donne toutes sortes de vertus et de vices." See also ¶¶ 171, 305. (Source (French)).…
“To be blessed and yet permit gluttony to blind me to the blessings is to banish myself to a life of unrelenting poverty even though I might be utterly engulfed in the embrace of a million marvelous blessings.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough
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in the midst of an ugly world, we must embrace the beauty that surrounds us…
What does the world offer us today? All around us we see chaos and destruction, loss of hope and hatred. But can we find something more meaningful in the midst of all of this? Find out more...
#Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town in #NewHampshire. It Didn’t End Well.
A new book shows the troubling consequences of #GraftonNH’s anti-government experiment.
"Today, we are all living in Grafton. Armies of rabid bears are wandering through our streets, clawing at our window screens, and gnashing their teeth at our children while the phone rings unanswered at the state department of fish and game. The old village church is erupting in flames, but someone has slashed the tires on our town’s lone fire truck, and the fire hydrants—unmaintained for a decade—have all run dry. Terrified, we beg our neighbors for help, only to be told that the Lord will protect us, or that the cataclysm in the streets is just punishment for our moral failures or our political misdeeds."
by Elizabeth Austin
August 30, 2020
Excerpt: "Certainly, the author is not alone in finding cause for amusement in Grafton’s funny little basket of deplorables. For years now, reporters and pundits have chosen to focus on the style, rather than the policy substance, of the growing #LibertarianRight. Again and again, we read stories of rural rubes clad head to toe in #MAGA swag, hunched over chipped cutlery in dingy diners, wielding biscuits to wipe the last of the sausage gravy from their oversized plates while vociferously proclaiming that taxation is theft and inveighing against the nanny state. In choosing to shoot these red, white, and blue fish in a barrel, Hongoltz-Hetling is in very good company.
"But had the author not chosen snark over substance, his book could have served as a peculiarly timely cautionary tale, because the conflicting philosophical principles that drive this story are central to understanding American politics today. The differences between the libertarian stumblebums who moved to Grafton and the staff of the #Koch-funded #CatoInstitute are mostly sartorial. And the sad outcomes of Grafton’s wacky social experiment are now being repeated in American communities every single day. "
#NHPol #FreeTownProject #Stupidity #Selfishness #FreeDumb #MAGACult #MAGASucks #SexOffenders #FreeStaters #GOP #Republicans
Aubrey Taylor, Editor
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