by Paul | Feb 13, 2025
Determinism is that there is a reason for everything that happens to us. I cannot fully give into that kind of preplanned fate because I, as a human, have free will. Every moment is a choice, and if I make the wrong choice, I believe I will have a chance to make the right choice, with unlimited chances but learning a valuable lesson if I continue to make the same wrong choice too many times. Unfortunately, there are people good at manipulating us into making wrong choices, who I eliminate from my life immediately, now.
Accordingly, we propose belief in social determinism (BSD) as a complementary component of essentialism, which relies on the belief that a person’s essential character is shaped by social factors (e.g., upbringing, social background).[1] Another thing I notice in our society is peer pressure. Our friends can easily talk us into doing something we should not. There is often one person in our peer group that is the leader, sometimes narcissistic and controlling. We do not get in with the right people, including me, and I am still paying a high price for trusting people, which has made me less social nowadays, especially with whom I interact with online. Evil people can show up in life in person, and that has happened to me, also.
Then there is a common thought of how our lives are determined and controlled by God. Some philosophers attempt to use the same arguments that are held to establish that free will and responsibility are compatible with the discovery of determinism to show that, if God exists, then free will and responsibility are compatible with divine predetermination in a way that implies that God could predetermine exactly how creatures exercise their freedom in ways for which they are responsible.[2] It is easy to be naïve and ignorant and accept what your religion teaches you, even though your preacher is a smooth talker, who went to divinity school. We are so out of touch about who God is, and that deity is internal. The bible states “The Kingdom of God is Within You” in Luke 17:21. Yet we still believe God is an omnipotent external being, who is a father figure, and an argument of feminists. Many will find little to question in such a position as the deterministic worldview is the dominant cosmological position of modern times.[3] In other words, the world’s most common belief is that God determines our lives, and to believe otherwise is evil.
There are philosophical objections to casual determinism (alleged implications of necessitarianism in general, of necessitarianism on account of the appeal to divination, of laziness, and of a surrender of moral responsibility).[4] We tend to go with the masses without thinking about the intellectual debate of religious determinism. We accept what we believe without delving into the question of why. It may have also passed down generationally, especially with the belief of our parents. Back in my day, I rebelled even after going through a Catholic educational system and had to learn the hard way. I am paying for my sins yet continually taught on a medieval level at some institutions. Of course, I lost many years but still seeking truth today from a higher academic level.
Theological determinism is the view that God determines every event that occurs in the history of the world. While there is much debate about which prominent historical figures were theological determinists, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, and Gottfried Leibniz.[5] Yes, greats like Aquinas and Augustine, Saints of the Catholic Church strongly argued in the determinism of God. Today parents are more open and allowing children to believe what they want instead of the rules, regulations, and dogma from years ago still practiced with limitations today. I do not question people much anymore but accept that my current belief and curiosity is wrong in someone’s eyes and mind. I will continue to learn as much as I can as a forever student.
[1] Rangel, Ulrike, and Johannes Keller. “Essentialism Goes Social: Belief in Social Determinism as a Component of Psychological Essentialism.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 100, no. 6, 2011, pp. 1056. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/essentialism-goes-social-belief-determinism-as/docview/876079704/se-2
[2] Cai, James. “Free Will and the Problem of Evil.” Religious Studies, vol. 40, no. 4, 2004, pp. 437-456. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/free-will-problem-evil/docview/197236065/se-2
[3] “Determinism versus creativity: Which way for social work?” Social work, vol. 38, no. 2, 1993, pp. 127. ProQuest; eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/215268020?accountid=41449
[4] Brown, Eric. “Topics in Stoic Philosophy / Determinism and Freedom in Stoic Philosophy.” Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 38, no. 3, 2000, pp. 432. ProQuest; eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/210613393?accountid=41449
[5] Vicens, Leigh. “Theological Determinism” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. University of Tennessee at Martin. https://iep.utm.edu/theological-determinism/#:~:text=Theological%20determinism%20is%20the%20view,figures%20were%20theological%20determinists%2C%20St
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by Paul | Feb 12, 2025
Do we know who is running our world?
Necessitating an unfeasible double vision, DeLillo’s art-work, then, boldly engages with the aesthetic and epistemological dilemma that seems to accompany all attempts to come to terms with globalization: namely, the impossibility of holding together the experiential and the conceptual – in other words, to fully articulate local life-worlds with their insertion into the global.[1] The great writer Don DeLillo as partially written about in this 1997 article from The New Yorker magazine explains a little bit about his creativeness and genius writing, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/09/15/exile-on-main-street-don-delillo-profile-remnick. We are already in a new or one world order, which has both good and evil authorities. Even our own US government keeps the American public super ignorant, including me. I have the gift of finding reliable and truthful resources not based on any assumptions but of pure fact, and how even how our current media of social persuasion and shared stories along news is still, mostly, pure propaganda.
This New World Order, run by a few humans and other beings, for which we are unaware, now can leave earth at any time and take a few select people for the continued propagation of humanity and let the rest of us go into total world destruction. This seems like science fiction horror writing, but it unfortunately true.
I am sure some of you recall the speech given by former president George Bush Sr. in 1991 about the new world order. The post-World War II era was symbolically marked by the global role of the United Nations as an agent for the promotion of peace; the New World Order compels a destructive and value-negative agenda on states and on the poor population within states around the world.[2] It is already established as true and not of conspiracy, but it is better known by the term globalization, which is supposed to keep the world violently divided.
The subject, of a new world order, raises eyebrows and is a topic of skepticism and followers of those skeptics, who seem to be the puppet masters fragmented throughout our current world. This abstract in part I, which examines the necessities of life, views presented on what to do about population problems and how to meet the universal needs for food, housing, and health care. Part II provides a variety of perceptions on the major social transformation into a new world order.[3]
Even though I could write for hours on this subject, I will now end this writing know that most people do not read my lengthy nonconforming posts to the algorithms of Facebook, which is preferably concise.
[1] Global Fragments : (Dis)Orientation in the New World Order, BRILL, 2007. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=556832.
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[2] Yovanovich, Gordana. New World Order : Corporate Agenda and Parallel Reality, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3330723.
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[3] “Optimistic Outlooks: Latest Views on the Global Future by a Galaxy of International Experts.” ERIC, Resources in Education (RIE), 1982, pp. 1-188. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/optimistic-outlooks-latest-views-on-global-future/docview/63484357/se-2.
by Paul | Feb 12, 2025
If we understand both the sociology and psychology of ourselves, we can form better relationships. The key to any relationship is openness and communication, especially for couples. It hurts you the most by withholding something from your partner, they need to know, especially about yourself.
Socially, life is the external interaction with people in forming bonds or relationships. People draw on a broad range of life domains to find meaning in life, such as religious beliefs, social relationships, personal achievement, and social contributions.[1] In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, we strive for self-actualization at the very top of the pyramid. Achieving this state completely without having to go back to our animalistic nature, which is enlightenment or spiritual awakening. Most people self-actualize only briefly but usually go back to this illusion of reality, or what we consider normal.
In my life, external stimuli such as pictures, videos, or control freaks do not affect me, like they did in the past. Reciprocity is the strongest social norm gluing a society together.[2] If you give someone something, you expect at least a little tradeoff. It must not be equal, all the time, unless socially you have an interest in them and do care that much for something in return. Of course, the relationship will not work out if it is a give and take relationship, for couples mostly, but also in business relationships, such as a partnership, as well.
In child development, supporting and helping to form social relationships is necessary. Babies and toddlers show that they recognize familiar peers and, within their physical abilities, engage in social play with individuals.[3] In other words, babies are born to be social, but as they get older social relationships are a little more difficult to navigate, even into their teenage years and early adulthood. As I have recently entered my golden years, external social stimuli are unnecessary. I better understand relationships internally, which means I build new relationships based on their internal or psychological values but with a calming awareness.
Psychological relationships have more depth and meaning than sociological relationships. Though, I know there must be balance between them. As the relationship matures, the partners often become less motivated and less generous than they once were. Understandable disillusionment accumulates, and the time and energy required to fulfill their partner’s needs can become more burdensome.[4] This is true for all couples married or otherwise. All relationships, psychologically, must continually need work. Our mind is often changing and is now vastly different from when you both met, but there are correct ways for healing the relationship, not by just a couple of books about it.
Again, communication is important and openly talk about the problem, even though it is difficult for one of you. Simple, linear regression was conducted to find the impact of adjustment and satisfaction. On psychological well-being among partners were into religious relationship.[5] Therefore, if you and your partner are different religiously, then there are simple ways of adjusting to keep the romance in a relationship strong. There are times when both of you must compromise to get out of any one-sidedness of the relationship.
I found out later in life, I value what is inside myself and the person I am relating to, in forming new relationships. The external marketing and money-making side of relationships is less of a thing for me. Externally, I will continue to socialize with my partner by dating and going out to have fun and enjoy life together in the simple moments.
[1] Zhang, Hong, et al. “Threats to Belongingness and Meaning in Life: A Test of the Compensation among Sources of Meaning.” Motivation and Emotion, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019, pp. 242-254. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/threats-belongingness-meaning-life-test/docview/2117635938/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-018-9737-8.
[2] Social Dilemmas, Institutions, and the Evolution of Cooperation, edited by Ben Jann, and Wojtek Przepiorka, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5049489.
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[3] Social Dilemmas, Institutions, and the Evolution of Cooperation, edited by Ben Jann, and Wojtek Przepiorka, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2017. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5049489.
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[4] Gunther, Randi. When Love Stumbles : How to Rediscover Love, Trust, and Fulfillment in Your Relationship, New Harbinger Publications, 2011. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/atpa-ebooks/detail.action?docID=776171.
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[5] Das, Neha, and K. G. V. Bapu. “Psychological Well-being, Relationship Satisfaction and Adjustment among Partners Involved in Inter-Religious Romantic Relationship.” Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, vol. 15, no. 1, 2024, pp. 62-68. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/psychological-well-being-relationship/docview/3041529584/se-2.
by Paul | Feb 9, 2025
Why does believing in God create comfort in us? One type of potential violation is conflict between a person’s experiences of suffering and a person’s deeply held beliefs about God as loving, powerful, and just.[1] God gives us hope that we will be free from suffering forever, someday. It is reassuring in knowing the love of God takes away all pain. There would not be any reason for people to push past pain without believing in a higher spiritual state of mind. Having a deity or spiritual awareness is worth striving for, which gives us better understanding of ourselves.
The assumption that scientific knowledge would bring an end to religious belief has challenged many scholars, particularly since such a belief persists even among those devoted to scientific activities.[2] Often, we see conflict between science and religion, and as we know in sciences, answers are provided by evidence and experiment for validation. Religious faith is belief in a higher power greater than us, which we cannot perceive with our five senses.
Believing in God is a choice, but there is a Birmingham, Alabama mail columnist named Talha Ghannam who says, ‘Choosing to disbelieve in God is a thoughtless gamble’ and the result that can happen if God does or does not exist.[3] In other words, it is better to believe in God for hope in an eternal bliss instead of not believing in God and a risk for going into eternal damnation. Though, eternal damnation is a fire and brimstone religious, mostly Christian, belief which those of faiths, such as Buddhism, that does not believe in eternal damnation or hell. Of course, a family member has the right in saying a convicted murderer is going to hell for killing one of their family members. It is justice, but we do not know what happens to that convicted murderer after death if sentenced to execution for that crime.
There is also the case of Timothy McVeigh, accused of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, who gave his life to God after sentence but before his execution for the death penalty. Can we honestly say he went to hell or eternal damnation for that crime? No, but the families of the victims have all the rights to believe he did. We say we forgive with words but usually do not forgive in our minds.
I know growing up Catholic, that the only way to absolve sins was going to a priest and confessing through the sacrament of Penance. Protestant religions, on the other hand, believe they can confess privately to God through prayer and absolve themselves of sins. Therefore, I learned over time any form of Christianity is close-minded and limited in beliefs. Though, with my new life experiences, open-mindedness, and gained knowledge and intelligence, I still believe in God and Christ-consciousness inside of each of us that must come through our personality and disposition.
From the newspaper, Daily Telegraph, morning people tend to be more religious and have a greater belief in God than their more nocturnal counterparts, a study has discovered.[4] I know since I have been getting up early, I do often pray or reflect on being thankful for everything in my life. It has often noted that gurus, priests, shamans, etc. are awake between 3:00 am and 4:00 am, which is considered either dawn or the witching hour, depending on what you believe. I did notice when working outside as a security guard in the warmer weather during that hour walking my rounds, the birds were already chirping during that time but not before.
Another thought about God, which may counteract what others believe is that God is in our mind, and not a father figure sitting on a throne ruling over us. Our personality can also be Christlike, sometimes, but remain human when we get back into a hedonistic or worldly thought. I know I fail often in trying to maintain any form of divinity within myself.
[1] Park, Crystal L., et al. “When suffering contradicts belief: measuring theodical struggling.” Current Psychology, vol. 43, no. 6, 2024, pp. 4961-4973. ProQuest; eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/2973341830?accountid=41449, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04642-w.
[2] Falcao, Eliane B. M. “Religious Beliefs: Their Dynamics in Two Groups of Life Scientists.” International Journal of Science Education, vol. 30, no. 9, 2008, pp. 1249-1264. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/religious-beliefs-their-dynamics-two-groups-life/docview/61989774/se-2.
[3] “You cannot force a belief, God will know.” Birmingham Mail, 24 Mar. 2023, pp. 24. ProQuest; eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/2789893689?accountid=41449.
[4] “Morning people have more of a belief in God.” The Daily Telegraph, 25 May 2023, pp. 2. ProQuest; eLibrary, https://explore.proquest.com/elibrary/document/2818564632?accountid=41449.
by Paul | Feb 9, 2025
How do I know when I am in love with someone? I have been with several women in my life, but I am not sure I have yet felt the love that God wants me to have with a woman. Can it hit me one day if I have been with a woman long enough? Does being in love take time, because I honestly do not know if I have felt that beautiful all around feeling with someone before. We both must feel it within every part of our being, our emotions, our mind, our bodies, and most importantly, our spirits or souls.
It is a love much deeper than what I can read in a novel or watch on the movie screen. There are not any words to describe it, but there seems like there is a reason, I do not know if I have felt that way or not. Having a true soulmate, if that is possible, the kind of love you hear about from different people, who have their own ideas and beliefs about it. It is a heaven connection I believe, and one brought together by God. It is something I also believe cannot happen fast, and that fast part has happened to me too many times.
I want it to be natural and mature for both of us, without any imbalance. It is okay to have minor conflicts once we have been together for a while, but we must be there with each other in both the bad and good times. We must laugh and cry together. We go through thick and thin and accept each other’s unhealthy habits. It occurs at any age, except for the youth, who may not fully understand what this kind of love is.
I have learned to unconditionally love more people, but romantically loving and committing to one woman is something I have not accomplished yet. I do not know if I will or not before I die. Though, I believe both of us will know if this love we have for each other is true.
by Paul | Jan 29, 2025
Walk your own path and take the fall if you must. Life is difficult to navigate, sometimes, with all its twists and turns as well as its difficulties. I am not saying mine has not been easy, but I have made about a dozen hasty decisions, especially on my own later in life. I trusted people I should not have but remained hopeful in being that way to anyone. I can see disaster coming, but I continue to get right in the middle of it, which is usually costly. There are examples written in article from Psychology about seven reasons to follow your own path, and the one I found really a basis for all of them is the freedom to be who you are(Brelnes, 2016).[1]
When walking our own road, there are times when can help other people walk theirs. Here are a couple of examples, and one I have personally done is being a caregiver, helping an elderly person on their path no matter what time they have left. I also found an article on LinkedIn about helping others find their career path. There is a reason, so few people successfully work their way up that coveted prominent level of expertise; they go at it alone(Abnee, 2017).[2] Of course, this points to having a career coach help guide you on the right path to find a career that you love.
We often cross paths with other people, both good and bad. There is also an article from the website Thrive Global in article why we cross paths with others, and in one part of it indicated that we meet other people to either learn or teach(Ray, 2018) [3], and often it is only a give and take meeting or relationship, which sometimes is costly for the giver. I know this first-hand well.
Regarding trial and error with work, I must try things before I know whether it will be worth my effort or not. At this point in my life, I will not do anything uncomfortable regarding my mentality especially, so the possibility of working from home is conceivable or having my own online business.
My immediate need right now is to make enough money to survive or live without going into a hole I have visited about five to ten times before.
[1] Juliana Brelnes, 7 Reasons to Follow Your Own Path (Psychology Today, April 30, 2016) https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/in-love-and-war/201604/7-reasons-follow-your-own-path
[2] Nina Abnee, Helping Others Find the Path to Doing What They Love (LinkedIn, January 18, 2017) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/helping-others-find-path-doing-what-love-nina-abnee
[3] Ritu Chawla Ray, Why We Cross Each Other’s Path (Thrive Global, September 7, 2018) https://community.thriveglobal.com/why-we-cross-each-other-s-path/#:~:text=As%20someone%20said%2C%20%E2%80%9CWe%20don,its%20purpose%20to%20be%20there.
by Paul | Jan 29, 2025
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The old veteran sat in his chair,
Thinking of a woman of long ago.
Battle with her, he would not dare,
Scarred from war, he is not her foe.
The moon arching into a full wane,
As the new lunar approaches soon.
The calvary he fought in, not by vain,
Upon waking, came the call of a loon.
Upon the pond beside his cabin a fog,
Rising into the morning stream of light.
His land wakens to the howl of his dog,
Chasing away all the creatures of night.
Hobbling on one leg, grabbing his coat,
Gear in hand, getting in his fishing boat.
by Paul | Jan 26, 2025
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We all have bias in unusual ways, but the key thing for me is not to publicize those predispositions. We should keep our life private, except with our closest friends and confidants. I have a sense of people before they speak, but it is not judgmental. It is dissimilar to how salespeople read prospective clients or buyers, and through manipulative tactics make sales. Mine is a clear sentience feeling that I have had all my life.
Ongoing data analyzations determine that deep neural networks are sensitive to bias in the data.[1] These neural networks, of course, are most prominent in our brains, conditioned from an early age. This citation is about how we use bias in categorizing anomalies, thus forming our own conspiracies, sometimes, or becoming part of a group that thinks similarly. It is socially of how we fit in or must have people in our lives.
Political bias is damaging because you know we make enemies, which groups of people thrive on, especially if we choose a particular candidate and post that opinionated bias all over the Internet. Sometimes, it becomes less of an intellectual debate but a vile exchange of words. Yes, that is commonly what we consider human, when we fight over our differences.
Even, with the logical and computation methods of machine learning will model political bias in social media involve challenges due to heterogeneity, high-dimensional, multiple modalities, and the scale of the data.[2] Thus through data analysis predictions determine and even seen as biased, even in scholarly writings. Thus, there is bias in the academic world but usually controlled in constructive dispute in the classroom. It can go bad if those teachers or moderators of that debate are also extremely biased.
There are diverse kinds of biases like confirmation bias, where we look for information to support our biases. Attribution bias is our own personal bias compared to the bias of others and how we can fit in socially with people of similar partialities. Conformity or majority bias is when your prejudice conforms to what most people think or feel.
[1] Pastore, Vito P., et al. Looking at Model Debiasing through the Lens of Anomaly Detection. , Ithaca, 2024. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/working-papers/looking-at-model-debiasing-through-lens-anomaly/docview/3084969197/se-2.
[2] hajare, Prasad, et al. A Machine Learning Pipeline to Examine Political Bias with Congressional Speeches. , Ithaca, 2021. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/working-papers/machine-learning-pipeline-examine-political-bias/docview/2574958978/se-2.
by Paul | Jan 21, 2025
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People come and go out of my life, but usually not because of any enmity. I am sure there are dislikable characteristics or attributes about me from a certain few, who have grown to know me over time. I try not to go out of my way to impress anyone unless it is regarding to my overall benefit. I have learned to let go of people more easily and establish boundaries.
I was once too empathetic with everyone, but now that has decreased to people I choose to care about. It does not mean I am unkind to others; it is about prioritizing myself more. We must be better at working on ourselves before trying to help others. Self-improvement does not have to become an obsession, though. Once I learned to find that balance, life became easier.
Fast forward to today, I still dream big and have more opportunities to make them come true. The abilities I have are more than one or two and make me eclectic or a Renaissance person. I do not have the genius of Leonardo Da Vinci, but I am multi-talented in aspects of art and science, too. I prefer to see myself as a balanced brain person, with both logical and creative sides working in unison.
From observation, communicating from the first-person point of view, though not selfish but less lightly than communicating inclusively with you, as the recipient and an important part of that interaction. During a conversation, the more I mention your name, the better you feel about our relationship, whether business or otherwise. Leadership is about inclusiveness and participation first-hand instead of barking out orders. Though, someone may be a great manager but lacks the soft skills of being a boss.
Putting it all together, I am learning not to be too hard on myself and accept being human. I will make mistakes and say things wrongly. Though, I also do not have any regret if I had or have lapses in judgement, at any point past, present, or future. None of these words define me.
by Paul | Jan 20, 2025
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Metaphysical existence is a topic we are just starting to explore. It occurs in other dimensions and worlds. Ghosts, monsters, and aliens are most attributed to the paranormal or anything outside of physical of what we commonly do not perceive. It can be both miraculous and anomalous, depending on how you view it. It seems surreal because it deals with things outside of our world, and for the majority also outside the critically thinking mind.
There are interesting concepts about metaphysical in a ProQuest pointing to an abstract the title, ‘The Contentment Divided: Meditations for Realizing Your True Self’ by Kirkus Reviews. The statement on a quote from Michael Goddart, “Again and again, the author emphasizes the importance of the influence of Saints, adepts, and other exalted beings in the pursuit of wakefulness…and on metaphysical journeys onward to other planes” (Kirkus Reviews, 2024). We seek out those who have experienced such enlightenment before and became experts.
There came about unfamiliar terms such immanent metaphysical time as written by Jason Morgan about the paranormal or otherworld aspects of strange time-born phenomena happening within that timeline (Morgan, 2023). Time does not have the same value as earth time and seems almost nonexistent relevant to other dimensions. Within the metaphysical world materialistic evolutionary thinking goes out the door. As Carl Sagan said, Darwin proposed the theory of evolution on death and time, alone.
The early founders of early psychology like William James gave practical advice about health is good as the attitude should by a stubborn metaphysical refused to submit to evil (Kleinman, 2024). Our lives move toward goodness in belief and thought instead of getting subjected to some kind of immorality. It is a moral medical philosophy we should have of all life from humans to plants and animals.
Even religion teaches of God as in the metaphysical or in a realm outside of our own. Yet, it is mostly an internal journey for each of us to find the truth of who we are within this supernatural tour of life that we cannot experience on the level of our five senses. It takes intuition to find answers, which come forth symbolically, sometimes, even as experienced as they may be.
The spirit moves us sometimes in relation to the questions we have about infinite life scientifically and eternal life morally. They are one in the same but with different viewpoints. We are a world with too much separation of what we believe compared to what others believe, also.
There is no rationality when in a state of conflict. We learn certain things and stick to our guns about them never to sway from those limited beliefs.
Works Cited
Kleinman, Arthur. “William James: Physician of the Public’s Soul.” The Lancet, vol. 403, no. 10431, 2024, pp. 1014-1015. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/william-james-physician-publics-soul/docview/3039714219/se-2, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(24)00491-4.
Morgan, Jason M. “The Rise of Immanent Metaphysical Time.” New Oxford Review, vol. 90, no. 8, 10, 2023, pp. 36-40. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/magazines/rise-immanent-metaphysical-time/docview/2878846865/se-2. “The Contentment Divided: Meditations for Realizing Your True Self.” Kirkus Reviews, 2024. ProQuest, https://www.proquest.com/trade-journals/contentment-divided/docview/3037300175/se-2.
