Spiritual (2010-2011)

© 2012 Peter Free

 

 

Even Formerly Respected Police Departments Assist in Weaving Morally Corrupt Falsity — Refusing to Take Crime Reports to Keep Crime Rates Lower than They Actually Are — another Example of Government-Employed Supervisors Intentionally Working against the Public Interest(31 December 2011)

 

 

A Spiritual Season Topic — the Moral Disease of Not Giving a Darn — the American Public’s Unconcern with Death and Wounding in Afghanistan — We Can’t Blame It All on the Media (27 December 2011)

 

 

What’s Secrete “Here” Is Not Secret “There” — How America’s Due Process-Lacking Anti-Terrorist Drone War Is Probably Going to Result in the Reverse of What Was Intended (20 December 2011)

 

 

People So Irrationally and Determinedly Stupid, It Makes You Want to “Pray” for Them — Mary Elizabeth Williams’ Appropriately Acid Rebuke to the Know-It-All Religionists who Blazened, “I Told You So,” across the Heavens at News of Atheist Christopher Hitchens’ Death (17 December 2011)

 

 

Predictably Late — Why Tell Someone How Great They Are only after They’re Dead? (06 October 2011)

 

 

The Inertia of Indifference — Look No Further to Find Evil (23 September 2011)

 

 

Don’t Count on the Wealthy to Be Generous or Helpful, says a University of California Study — if True, the Findings Have Profound Political and Economic Implications (09 August 2011)

 

 

In Wrong-Headed Wars, When Do a Nation’s Broken Promises become Its Citizens’ Personal Shame? — Abandoning the Foreign Locals Who Helped Us in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Vietnam (21 July 2011)

 

 

Inventing Bogus Mental Illnesses and Drugs for Profit — the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Self-Interested Physicians Who Help It Lie (18 July 2011)

 

 

Living in America’s Never-Never Land — the Optimistic Nonsense that Americans Are Asked to Swallow about Traumatic Brain Injury (16 June 2011)

 

 

One Person’s Kindly Demeanor Can Positively Flavor a Day — Valuing Government Employees (13 June 2011)

 

 

Religion, when Practiced in Name Only as Osama bin Laden did, Is an Evil that also Consumes Western Religious Culture — Rabbi Boteach’s Moral Teaching (18 May 2011)

 

 

Spiritually Necessary Humility — Perspective from Archaeology (14 May 2011)

 

 

Avarice as a Deadly Sin — Brief Reflections on Corporate Corruption’s Grip on Us (09 May 2011)

 

 

Lawful Morality in Regard to Arresting Terrorists — Glenn Greenwald Asks Us to Assess the Legal Legitimacy of the Execution of Osama bin Laden — My Answer Is that Realism and Nuance Often Trumps Principles In Balancing Survival Risks (07 May 2011)

 

 

Racism and Cupidity Still at Work — a Second African-American Mother Arrested for Trying to Advance Her Child’s Education (19 April 2011)

 

 

Until We Fix Ourselves, the Hope of Fixing Others Is a Delusion — the War-Making Impulse (30 March 2011)

 

 

A Psycho-Spiritual Three-Second Rule? (25 February 2011)

 

 

Possible Changes in Patient Priority for Kidney Transplants — Highlights the Inescapable Rationing Element in Medicine (24 February 2011)

 

 

Does Working Compassion’s Ground Create a Different Morality than Hierarchical Church Action Based on Abstracted Scripture? — A Catholic Hospital versus the Church (28 January 2011)

 

 

Columnist David Brooks, an Insightful Observer, Says Deficit Reduction Is Hopeless for at Least the Medium Term — and a Comment on Spiritual Hubris (23 November 2010)

 

 

Can Two Identical Cars Exhibit a Difference in Anthropomorphic Welcoming? ─ A Way to Enlightenment (05 September 2010)

 

 

Is Life a Dream, as Some Spiritual Traditions Say It Is? (11 July 2010)

 

 

Conceptual Thinking Aids and Hinders Rationality and Efficient Living ─Awareness of the Paradox Is a Key to Wisdom (07 July 2010)

 

 

Love Expends and Renews Itself Repeatedly to Maintain an Open Heart(04 July 2010)

 

 

Not Caring about Others Increasingly Characterizes Our Society ─ In an Allegedly Christian Nation, Is this What You Think Jesus Would Do? (30 June 2010)

 

 

American Thinking Is Over-simplified Dualism ─ That Paradigm Gets Us into Trouble (25 June 2010)

 

 

Spiritual Pronouncements Based upon the Brain’s Self-generated Insights Are Probably Mistaken (19 June 2010)

 

 

Love’s Communication Is Often Loaded with Psychic Bombs (18 July 2010)

 

 

The Ideal of Oneness with a Romantic Partner Postpones Real Love (16 June 2010)

 

 

What Love Means(18 May 2010)

 

 

Compassionate Self-Love as a Guide to the Limits of Relationship (18 May 2010)