Spiritual explorations and common sense
In searching for another topic entirely, I came across the definition of the new term, fisking, which means to take apart someone’s argument point by point. Any well-educated person will recognize that this technique has been around for many thousands of years longer than the new name for it. It used to be called rhetoric. […]
Normally, when someone (let’s call them person A) says something about someone else (we’ll call this person B), our tedency is to believe it without questioning it. But this isn’t always the right thing to do. The people listening need to examine the situation and the people involved to decide what is really going on. […]
People in denial often state their denials in this form: “I’m not ___” or “I do ___,” when in fact they are ___ or they don’t ___. For example, someone might say, “”I’m not the kind of person to find fault” when in fact they are always finding fault with others, or “I always tell […]
Publisher’s Clearing House, or PCH as they like to call themselves, sends me enticing mail all the time that begs me not to throw it away because I will be sorry when someone else wins “my” ten million dollars. I used to faithfully enter, but realized after a while that if I am going to […]