Thought for the Day
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” — Thomas Paine, in the 1795–1796 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.
“An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.” — Thomas Paine, in the 1795–1796 pamphlet Agrarian Justice.
How does a person make sense of an itinerant “career” for a potential employer when it doesn’t really make sense to oneself?
A lightly edited version of this review was published in PDF form in the March–April 2025 issue of the Freethought Society’s newsletter.
Sig and I set out some time ago to complete a paired reading of Carl Jung’s autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections. It did not go as I’d thought and hoped it would.
It’s “resolution reset” season already. At least that’s what an ad I received yesterday proclaimed. And it set me to thinking …
A lightly edited version of my review was published in the Freethought Society’s January–February 2025 newsletter.
Not being a person tightly tied to the Gregorian calendar, I have little use for new year’s resolutions and predictions, etc. Yet here I am, in the uncomfortable position of offering a prediction that could perhaps reach a tipping point as early as 2030.