The Greatest Accomplishment of Wishful Thinking the World Has Yet Known

There is a point in time when parents and family must intervene in an addict’s life to interrupt the destructive behaviors and patterns of a...

As previously discussed, the development of leadership skills plays an important role in a successful program of long-term recovery. To exe...

I would like to consider the question of whether or not AA and NA promote quasi-theological positions, and whether or not I believe AA to be...

Some cynics argue the only way belief can be established is by saying “seeing is believing.” Obviously this thinking is insufficient because...

The man who finds no pleasure in a new theory of knowledge is one who fears his own word might not be law. Granted, philosophy is unable to...

I have been asked to provide more insight into understanding the religion of atheism. You may ask why I call it a religion, and the simple a...

The question may be argued, “Does God test me?” The answer is, of course, YES. The argument against this truth is so bad that it would not...

If you really believe the consciousness of man is not an accidental product of nature, then you should feel a sense of awe and hold its impo...

(here is a nice, simple chapter purposefully written in relaxed language to summarize my best philosophical viewpoints, most of which have a...

Anytime you discuss the matter of origins you are forced to make a philosophical assumption of faith. You must decide for yourself what is ...

Among the many difficulties that unbelievers and skeptics have about Christianity is the fact that (seemingly) childish imagery is used to d...

If you believe the totality of nature can only exist on causes beyond itself, you have made your first step toward the correct view of theis...

A very contemporary, false philosophical viewpoint propagated by the trendy, self-appointed intelligentsia in our society is that the more w...

Great advances in the realm of psychology and countless research studies in neurobiology have officially overthrown the traditional percepti...

There are two common views of addicts: one is the “bad person” view and the other is the “chronic illness sufferer” view. I believe a simp...

One goal of therapy is to find out what caused the problem in the first place. Psychotherapies are known as the talking therapies, and are ...

Your faculty of judgment has not been sufficiently exercised if you think you must give up all pretentions to knowledge without understandin...

When dealing with the philosophical foundations of the psychology of addiction (which is a hobby of mine as a layman), it is important to se...

Pride is the one sin that, the more we have of it, the more we hate to see it in other people. The degree in which we react with self-right...

(chapters 55, 56, and 57 are all my best attempts to summarize some teachings that I learned by researching the subject matter of pride in a...

Humility is the opposite of pride. You cannot have humility where pride exists, and subsequently it is one of the most hated sins in the si...

In AA meetings, you will occasionally encounter self-appointed “AA Police” who, in a seeming desperate desire to inflate their own self-impo...

(I would like to take a break from writing philosophy, as it is extremely difficult and time consuming to think out. Here is a nice chapter...

Formal deductive reasoning is analytic by nature. Though complex, it contains no new information, it simply rearranges what we already know...

If you want to develop sustainable movement in your life, you are obligated to apply an arduous determination of the mind. This movement mu...

Albert Einstein (perhaps the smartest man who ever lived aside from Isaac Newton) once said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge. ...

In this chapter, you will find one of my brief attempts at philosophy as a layman. I would like to discuss the perfect ideal of wisdom and v...

(here is a chapter written in painful simplicity to appeal to a broad audience) It is important that we (in recovery) do a daily moral inven...

Sometimes a wise, quiet, humble leader will restrain his use of power for the good of others. A leader of this type would focus on the prov...

Since it is thoughts that occupy the space in your head (so to speak), this is where the center of your life is. If you have a disproportio...