"Could we ever empathize with the mindset of Hitler, as a characteristic so similar in others? As all monstrous another can be, to empathize with one so beastly in state and appearance calls us to what ourselves can be feeling in their presence. Fear. We fear the monster. If such is the case, then to… Continue reading Quote – “What it Means to Empathize with a Monster” – 7/18/2021
Tag: Psychology
Philosophy – “The Philosophy of Feeling Goosebumps” – 3/7/2021
"Something so beautiful, identifiable, and familiar to us is enough to raise even portions of our physical flesh to the heights of Heaven."- Modern Romanticism How real is it to feel something so lodged in the mind? Of something so dark, that only ever the depressed individual could understand, is never felt during a moment… Continue reading Philosophy – “The Philosophy of Feeling Goosebumps” – 3/7/2021
Psychological Assumption – “Why PTSD Patients have Trouble with Memory” – 2/19/2021
"Of a mind's system for memories, whether for old or newness to them, is always central when it comes to the notion of 'moving on'. Though, the 'freeze' will remain upon the mind, while the affected person is still left within the past of one shattered winter."- Modern Romanticism Memories cannot be made as newness,… Continue reading Psychological Assumption – “Why PTSD Patients have Trouble with Memory” – 2/19/2021
Psychology – “Why only Positive Emotions Generates Creative Energy” – 2/18/2021
"Depression is not a cue for productivity. Nor is grief the cue for a need to neglect the immediate sensations. We discover something so pure, as the positive emotions, only when everything we currently feel can be converted over to inspiration."- Modern Romanticism If research tells us that both positive and negative emotions can generate… Continue reading Psychology – “Why only Positive Emotions Generates Creative Energy” – 2/18/2021
Philosophy – “The Two-Step Sequence to Problem Solving” – 2/13/2021
"Without the desire to care, one cannot advance to where one solves what is wrong. With all the knowledge in the world, there is none that can teach a person to admit a problem exists."- Modern Romanticism Wandering to a bookstore to purchase a volume that teaches a person how to solve a problem, will… Continue reading Philosophy – “The Two-Step Sequence to Problem Solving” – 2/13/2021
Psychology – “Why there is no Such Thing as Conditional Love” – 2/2/2021
"If conditional love refers to love with boundaries, then conditional trust should simply be boundaries."- Modern Romanticism The most sensitive of subjects for which is meant to reflect an individual's greatest of weaknesses, is not love, though trust. Trust relates directly to all we fear, up to who we are sexually intimate with. For to… Continue reading Psychology – “Why there is no Such Thing as Conditional Love” – 2/2/2021
Philosophy – “Why Hate Speech has no Meaning” – 1/30/2021
"If words involve thought, then how can hatred, which involves no thought upon its action, be involved with words, alone?"- Modern Romanticism The usage of words revolves around thought, which is why a speech and successful negotiation should guarantee not a war. Out of war, there is risen hatred, come out of a person who… Continue reading Philosophy – “Why Hate Speech has no Meaning” – 1/30/2021
Philosophy – “Why Men Die More Often by their own Hand” – 1/22/2021
"The monster is only ever soft when they are finally vulnerable, no longer feared, and once more, able to protect another whom the beast did love."- Modern Romanticism The concept of the "Beauty and the Beast" is one to represent what is seen to be weak, from what is seen to be strong. A man,… Continue reading Philosophy – “Why Men Die More Often by their own Hand” – 1/22/2021
Healthcare – “Why Individual Concern is Best” – 1/8/2021
"Go on. Laze around. Tell yourself the problem will disappear, if you just place yourself in a hospital. For if there is no greater source than the source, itself, then the cure cannot touch it if a person never admits to themselves as the problem."- Modern Romanticism Accountability. Responsibility. Discipline. These are the factors rarely… Continue reading Healthcare – “Why Individual Concern is Best” – 1/8/2021
Philosophy – “Not the Depression that ever Hurt – A Critique to Psychiatry” – 12/14/2020
"Things which are lost, become phantoms, become memories of something physically present to trust. Now, trust is procreated, in something lifeless, injected, and said to be sterile or safe enough to cure an absence."- Modern Romanticism To the psychiatrists who have believed a patient suffers from depression, suffers from anxiety, is not the sort able… Continue reading Philosophy – “Not the Depression that ever Hurt – A Critique to Psychiatry” – 12/14/2020
Philosophy – “The Reason Men Weep” – 12/6/2020
"Never believe it is a choice to weep, for when a man does, he is no longer protecting himself. A choice to weep, would directly relate to force. When does a man force tears, other than to lie? When does a man cry so naturally before a woman, other than to be truthful?"- Modern Romanticism… Continue reading Philosophy – “The Reason Men Weep” – 12/6/2020
Excerpt – “To Define Protective Instincts” – 8/27/2020
"All love builds the unison that forms a collective of oneness, though only between individuals. It should be said that a person who wields 'protective instincts' for each breathing loved one, does so out of that oneness. Instinct relates to the choice of personal aid. Love, itself, voids reason, voids escape, of its responsible enactment.… Continue reading Excerpt – “To Define Protective Instincts” – 8/27/2020