“So tell me exactly what freedom means, if I’m not free to be as twisted as I wanna be.” ~ Disturbed “Do unto others as you would have done unto you.” ~ The Golden Rule “An’ yee harm none do what yee will.” ~ The Wiccan Rede My friend Dictionary says that freedom is defined…
hope ho-p/ noun 1. a feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. “he looked through her belongings in the hope of coming across some information” 2. archaic, a feeling of trust. Today, I tried to have a lighthearted conversation with my friend, Dictionary, and I think I may cry. My friend,…
As my friend, the dictionary, would have it, trust is the following: firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something. “relations have to be built on trust” synonyms: confidence, belief, faith, certainty, assurance, conviction, credence; More reliance Trust is also tricky. Trust is built on tested truth, but testing that…
Authors note: The following definitions only take a moment to read despite the space they fill on the page. While they are not explicitly required reading for the following piece they will add context and depth, use your best discretion. Definition noun \de-fuh-ni-shun\ 1. an act of determining; specifically : the formal proclamation of a…
by Justin Nafziger “Well we all have a face, That we hide away forever And we take them out and, Show ourselves When everyone has gone, Some are satin some are steel Some are silk and some are leather, They’re the faces of the stranger But we love to try them on” The Stranger, Billy…
by Justin Nafziger I have observed that people confuse various adjacent terms and ideas as equivalent. Belief and conviction for example, while they may overlap are not one and the same. Another oft misconstrued association is mixing morality, integrity and ethics. To be sure, they do interact heavily, but one and the same they are…
by Justin Nafziger This was written near the 2012 holiday season; however, the points are every bit as valid today, and it doesn’t have to be the holiday consumer rush for this stuff to be relevant. Time Is Not Money You know the old adage, “time is money”? Well, it’s wrong. Time isn’t money, and…
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