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09/20/2025

So what exactly does the First Amendment to the United States Constitution say?

Here’s the First Amendment to the United States Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

How have so many Americans forgotten the clear meaning of these words for the last 25 years? What has gone so seriously wrong in our culture and our education system when so many support censorship?

09/13/2025

“The price of freedom of religion or speech or the press is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.”
- Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954), U.S. Supreme Court Justice and chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Care to share an example?

08/29/2025

“Too much mercy…often resulted in further crimes which were
fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice
had been put first and mercy second.”
—Agatha (1890–1976), English detective writer

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Examples?


Can misplaced compassion lead to more avoidable suffering?

08/12/2025

“Give me the to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”
- John (1608–1674), English poet best known for his epic poem Paradise Lost

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Examples?

07/31/2025

"To admit that an opponent might be both honest and intelligent is felt to be intolerable. It is more immediately satisfying to shout that he is a fool or a scoundrel, or both, than to find out what he is really like."
- George (1903-1950), English novelist and social critic

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Examples?

06/29/2025

"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."
Bertrand (1872-1970), British philosopher, mathematician, and public intellectual who won the 1950 Nobel Prize in Literature

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Examples?


Do you agree with this ? Why? Why not? When might it be useful? When might it impractical? Why?

06/17/2025

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Can you give an example?

Plotinus (c. 204/5–270 CE), born in Roman Egypt, founded Neoplatonism and taught that all reality flows from a single source: the One.

06/17/2025

With Stoics A to Zeno – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

06/04/2025

Epictetus (c. 50 – c. 135 AD).

05/11/2025

Agree? Disagree? Why?

Today’s Wisdom

04/06/2025

"The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language."
- Ralph Waldo (1803-1882), American philosopher

Do you agree? Disagree? Why? Can you share some examples of the misuse of ?


And, on the other hand, we sometimes prefer politeness to pure honesty.
When might you choose to tell a white lie rather than an ugly truth?

02/13/2025

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations."
- U.S. President Abraham (1809-1865) in his Second Inaugural Address



Do you agree with this philosophy? Why? Why not? Can you give an example?