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  • Tools of Personal Agency: Seatbelts, Condoms, and Masks as Signs of Maturity

    Tools of Personal Agency: Seatbelts, Condoms, and Masks as Signs of Maturity

    Introduction We live in a world where risk is often invisible — embedded in the air we breathe, the roads we travel, and the intimacy we share. Viruses, accidents, and infections do not announce themselves; they arrive uninvited, sometimes with lasting consequences. Yet we are not powerless. Tools like seatbelts, condoms, and masks offer more […]

  • Assumptions regarding the maturity of the self

    Assumptions regarding the maturity of the self

    Maturity isn’t a quality of only the mind.  The simplicity of this understanding can have a transformative effect on an individual.  It need not have any such effects on society.  It might even be childish in itself to consider those ideas that can bind societies and lift them up.  There have always been individuals in […]

  • When attention is sustained, a small change can hold the potential for a major shift

    When attention is sustained, a small change can hold the potential for a major shift

    Could it rightly be said that small things can hold the potential for a major shift?  It is possible that you already understand the possibilities.  It is possible, you have seen by way of observation, or experienced in your life when such a thing happens.  A very simple, innocuous-seeming conversation, reading a passage in a […]

  • Existence – Poems by Christopher Venerus

    Existence – Poems by Christopher Venerus

    Existence is about life. Existence is the spiritual journey of a man who is traveling through time. It is experiencing one’s own existence in the larger reality of history and of anticipated visions for the future. Existence is sensing the poetry. Existence is about being a boy, growing up to be a man. He discusses […]

  • What is one to do when confronted by stories of evil?

    What is one to do when confronted by stories of evil?

    I understand that so many of us would like to find a place of security and comfort, away from all the evil done in our world today.  And who are the doers of great evil?  Not the wild animals or some predatory birds; it is the people who live right among us, people who look and […]

  • The exclusive focus on physical things will create an imbalance

    The exclusive focus on physical things will create an imbalance

    There has been a noticeable insistence on physical things in recent times.  It has been very deliberate, systematic, and evident of great intelligence.  Who are its proponents is not the most important thing.  One could, of course, examine the sayings of modern, atheist thinkers like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins.  Listening to such intelligent men […]

  • Keeping the thrill of technology in proper perspective to regain control in communication

    Keeping the thrill of technology in proper perspective to regain control in communication

    People seek thrill.  To fulfill that pursuit they look for adventure.  We all happen to be in a world right now where the next adventure is as close as our mobile phone.  When connected to the Internet, the whole world is open before us.  There are the possibility and prospect of visiting any place, reading […]

  • How can the youth protect themselves from addiction to technology?

    How can the youth protect themselves from addiction to technology?

    It has been with every generation, especially in the past 100 years that addiction to technology has been a very real possibility.  Since the start of the industrial revolution, the speed of change has been tremendous.  Dependence on machines and development in technology has gone hand-in-hand.  The younger ones, more enthusiastic and curious by nature, […]