Tag: Critical Thinking

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Belief, Collapse, and Redemption

We build our worlds on belief—often reinforced by the echo of others—until illusion collapses and demands the harder work of integrity, repair, and renewal. This essay traces the arc from chorus to shattering to redemption.

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The Canyon Between Ideals and Reality: Manmade Morality, Ethics, and the Machinery of Order

There is a vast and often invisible canyon between the ethical ideals we claim to uphold and the lived reality of power, law, and social order. This post explores how our morals, ethics, and legal systems are not eternal truths, but manmade constructions—malleable, political, and often weaponized. To live ethically in a world built on contradictions requires more than belief; it demands confrontation, courage, and the refusal to look away.

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The Eight Axioms of Reason: A Framework for Thinking in a Fractured World

In an age of accelerating complexity and digital noise, reason can feel both urgent and elusive. We live in a world that talks constantly—yet thinks rarely. A world obsessed with being right, but unsure what right even means. The old maps of logic are still valuable, but they were drawn in a simpler time. Today,

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What Is Truth? The Many Faces of Reality in Everyday Life

In a world where facts are debated, belief systems clash, and identities multiply, the question of truth is no longer a philosophical luxury—it’s a daily necessity. We often speak of truth as if it’s a singular thing: something out there waiting to be discovered, like a hidden treasure buried beneath the noise. But truth is

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