Category: Philosophy
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Shmolitics Is Not It, Your Fight Is Stockholm Syndrome, a psychological phenomenon, causes hostages to develop positive feelings towards captors. In a broader sense, it can manifest as a societal condition where individuals internalise the narratives imposed upon them by people who are holding them hostage, most often to their detriment. In contemporary society, many…
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Shmolitics is Resentment People constantly point fingers, always blaming external forces for their woes. This is a widespread societal phenomenon. Blame shifts away from personal responsibility and onto others, creating a cycle that stifles awareness, personal growth, and natural communal harmony. In today’s society, victimhood has become a currency, often used to garner sympathy and…
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Shmolitics as Identity of Politics Ever felt like you’re in a maze where every turn reveals another wall? That’s often the experience of well-meaning individuals navigating today’s identity politics. Let’s explore this paradox where good intentions meet preconceived notions, creating a labyrinth that can stifle even the most altruistic efforts. However what are politics if…
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What Boiling Bubbles in Toils and Troubles In depths of human experience through the light of God, where philosophy meets spirituality, Resurrexit Spiritus is a phenomenology attempting to lay out the immortal truths of human experience structurally. Imagine, if you will, a map drawn in representation of the shoals to our souls. This map is…
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How to be Truly Free So let’s discuss freedom more, since it is so fundamentally misunderstood. Truest freedom is in aligning ourselves with the will of God. In terms of pertinent scriptures, freedom cannot be seen as some right to be asserted over others. For Paulus, given his direct line to Jesus, freedom was in…
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Rejecting Shmolitical Distractions For a working societal framework, culture, community, and organisation form an inseparable triad. Each element is dependent on the others, and together they create a foundation for lasting power that cannot be undone by political shifts. Culture provides the values that guide our actions; community offers the purpose that unites us in…
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Bedrock of Human Purpose: Faith To reiterate the primary point of this series of articles: Paulus’s contemporaries did not question whether God existed. The apostle asked whether we should worship in material submission for material gain, by way of sacrificial rituals materially and asking for our own interests to be fulfilled from a place of…
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Replication and Reinforcement Recognitions in virtues are inherently cyclical and dynamic in nature. There is a continuous process of recognition and response, intertwined with both grace and intentional effort; encompassing the present moment (which reflects the past experience of God’s love) and extending into the future (the love that we actively choose to give to…
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Recognition of Purpose and Love These virtues are like echoes of an undying symphony resonating through the chambers of our souls, interconnecting and resounding all the more together. Recognitions of God’s divine love for and purpose in us are not byproducts of the virtues but rather the reverse. These recognitions are the engine and transmission…
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How Spiritual Completion Never Ends What follows forgiveness? What path do we tread as we journey from the seedling of magnanimity to the towering oak of spiritual maturity? The answer is in perseverance through analysis leading to higher levels of analysis and perseverance, so that together with increasing honesty these aspects of reason allow us…