Category: Practical Virtues
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Human Experience Value Lost with Sacred Selfhood / Selfness Sanctified To understand how this myth of immutable selfness wreaks havoc on the human soul, we must turn our attention to the Resurrexit theory phenomenology. This theory divides the human experience into four structured domains, each with its own role in the journey of becoming. Let…
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Now, dear reader, we turn our gaze toward the Structural Virtues Theory (SVT), the framework through which we must dissect this myth and why it is so nasty. According to SVT, Reason comprises three aspects of Honesty, Analysis, and Perseverance through four moments: Awareness (reflect), Propriety (response), Morality (right), Spirit (divine Love; ‘experienced’ most through…
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Power Punching Up as Art and Truth as Boxing Glove Reader, you’ve returned! Splendid! Why are the loudest out there often the ones punching down? At some point you’ll notice these things for the distractions that they are. The most powerful liars out there are often the loudest because they fear being heard. Sound strange?…
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Why Static Goodness of Innocence in Lack of Badness can be Overture to Corruption in the Garden of our Souls Ah, dear reader, you’ve returned, thank God! Let us contemplate a most curious paradox: that innocence, often hailed somehow as the purest form of goodness, is not actually goodness in itself. It is, rather, an…
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Two crucial elements of meaningful discourse that many people often overlook or miss entirely: 1) Always speak the truth, especially when addressing those in positions of power and authority. It is vital to be honest and courageous in confronting power with truth. 2) Avoid punching down or attacking those who are less powerful or vulnerable;…
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The first man who ever blinked at his reflection in a puddle, imagine him. What did he find so captivating? Was it worship of self, as he was born, or was there a recognition of the flaws he needs to overcome: the progress made and yet to be made? This tale is about that most…
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Myth of Immutable Selfness part 1: Information as Clay in Eternal Sculpting of ‘Philosopher’s Stone’
Sculpting Selfness: Transforming Information into Wisdom Today we discuss the process by which seemingly raw data can be sculpted into our own philosopher’s stone of virtue. Information and perception together course through our neural landscapes like rivers carving canyons. It shapes perceptions, moulds habits, and spurs action in an eternal dance of creation and refinement.…
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They say “don’t take yourself so seriously,” and while this is good advice taken one way, it’s most certainly bad advice taken another. The matter of taking oneself seriously in this instance implies an outsized expectation of deference from others; and this is where the advice is good as implicit of other things: errors in…
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The Blue Angels rehearsing in a conference room, eyes closed and seated, with bodies swaying as though they were in the air. They are not merely pilots; they are coordinators of a sky machine, choreographers of steel and thunder, and sculptors of their own as yet invisible: future. Observe them gripping phantom control sticks, heads…
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Understanding Honour as a Moral Compass Honour, the second perfective virtue, manifests from Reason’s divide between Spiritual and Material. It is devotion to an advantageous moral ordering, determined by culture, education, and experience. This virtue, nurtured through Love, aligns actions with deeply held values despite any external resistance. It measures the self against moral ideals,…