Category: Negativity
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Negativity: The Spirit of the Left
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Negativity: The Spirit of the Left
Substack latest. The spirit of the Left is the spirit of negativity. Any intellectually honest person following current events can see that the tendency of leftists is mindlessly to destroy for the sake of destruction what it has taken centuries to build. Transgressive of tradition and its wisdom, these 'progressives' are both hobbled and enabled…
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Negativity: The Spirit of the Left
The spirit of the Left is the spirit of negativity. Any intellectually honest person following current events can see that the tendency of leftists is mindlessly to destroy for the sake of destruction what it has taken centuries to build. Transgressive of tradition and its wisdom, these 'progressives' are both hobbled and enabled by their…
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Don’t Harbor the Negative
When negative thoughts drift into port, note them, but don't let them drop anchor. Let them drift out again.
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Negativity and Animality
Negativity is more difficult to subdue than animality. No surprise: the mind is more difficult to control than the body.
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Negativity Breeds Negativity
Negative people elicit negative responses from others. So they suffer twice: from their own negativity and from the negativity they cause.
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Holes and Their Mode of Being
Consider a particular hole H in a piece of swiss cheese. H is not nothing. It has properties. It has, for example, a shape: it is circular. The circular hole has a definite radius, diameter, and circumference. It has a definite area equal to pi times the radius squared. If the piece of cheese is 1/16th…
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Negative Thoughts
Squelching them is good in two ways. It is good to be rid of them since their presence keeps the positive from streaming in. And the very act of squelching them is a form of self-denial, something without which there can be no moral or spiritual progress. Resistance strengthens; indulgence weakens.
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Can Mere Thoughts Be Morally Wrong?
We begin by provisionally distinguishing among thoughts, words, and deeds. I will assume that most deeds and some words are justifiably morally evaluable, justifiably evaluable as either morally right or morally wrong. The question I want to raise is whether mere thoughts (thoughts that do not actually spill over into words or actions, though they possess the potential to do…
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For the New Year: Looking Away Shall Be My Only Negation
One of the elements in my personal liturgy is a reading of the following passage every January 1st. I must have begun the practice in the mid-70s. My copy of The Gay Science was purchased in Boston and is dated 15 September 1974. (You mean to tell me that when you buy books, you do…
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Mr. Negativity
My attempts to lessen his negativity are not meeting with much success. It's as if he cannot see that it would be desirable should he learn to control his mind. Part of the problem is that people feel so justified in their hatreds. Their feeling of justification makes it impossible for them to appreciate the…