Philosophy Now Forum

The greatest gift life offers many people is that someday, likely preferably sooner rather than later, they get to die. Perhaps worsening matters for them is when suicide is simply not an option, for whatever reason(s), meaning there’s little hope of receiving an early reprieve from their literal li...

When it comes to violent crimes, the typically non-addressed elephant in the room is: WHY are some men so predisposed to violence, including against women? Unlike with female offenders, male offenders are promptly demonized by all three forms of Western media — entertainment, news and social — witho...

In regard to the ‘thanks’ in Thanksgiving Day: I would be quite willing/happy to consistently sincerely thank God with every meal, if everyone on Earth — and not just a portion of the planet’s populace — had enough clean, safe drinking water and nutritional food to maintain a normal, healthy daily l...

A Palestinian (or Arabic) American living in swing-state Michigan who was briefly interviewed by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's TV news channel said she was actually going to cast her ballot for Trump this election instead of her usual vote for the Democratic candidate. Why exactly, she did...

As the Democratic party’s presidential candidate, Kamala Harris really needed yet still took for granted the political support of Arab, Muslim and Palestinian American voters — but especially those in the swing-state of Michigan, a generally strongly pro-Palestinian demographic who are particularly ...

With the human race desperately needing a unifying fate-determining common cause, perhaps a vicious extraterrestrial attack is what we collectively need to brutally endure in order to survive the long-term from ourselves. Humanity could all unite for the first time ever to defend against, attack and...

As Brazilian president, the thinly-veiled theocratic Evangelical Jair Bolsonaro had allowed the Amazonian rainforest to be razed by both meat farmers and wildfires. Incredibly, in the midst of yet another unprecedented wildfire three summers ago, the evangelical-Christian president declared that his...

Sadly, some of the best humanitarians I’ve met or heard about were/are atheists or agnostics who, quite ironically, would make better examples of many of Christ’s teachings than too many institutional Christians. Conversely, some of the worst human(e) beings I’ve met or heard about are the most dev...

Americans collectively want and deserve better than just either the usual establishment callous conservative or neoliberal candidate thus president. One almost gets the impression that the Republican and Democratic parties are still unaware of the non-corporately-commissioned polls showing that a ma...

As for their election loss, the DNC (via candidate Kamala) did rely too much on her promises to ‘protect democracy’ and constitutionally enshrine abortion rights nationwide motivating enough voters to her side. This, while there’s a very large and likely still growing electorate who, due to their fo...

WITH news-stories’ human subjects’ race and culture dictating quantity of media coverage of even the poorest of souls, a renowned newsman formulated a startling equation justly implicating collective humanity’s news-consuming callousness — “A hundred Pakistanis going off a mountain in a bus make le...

“The point is, ladies and gentlemen, that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms — greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge — has marked the upward su...

The New Oxford Dictionary of English defines “hero” as, “a person, typically a man, who is admired or idealized for their courage, outstanding achievements, or noble qualities: a war hero.” Of course such a definition fits like a snug glove on the concept of a war soldier diving onto a live grenade...

While John the Baptist believed in him as the one true savior, Jesus’ nature and teachings nevertheless left John troubled by his apparently contradictory version of the Hebraic violent-conqueror messiah, with which John had been raised. Most perplexing may have been the Biblical Jesus’ revolutionar...

Can there be that many 'Christians' out there gullible enough to genuinely believe Donald Trump was somehow cheated out of an election win via consequential significant voter fraud? Most of the Capitol Hill rioters likely maintain(ed) that line as an excuse for their attempt to overturn Biden’s elec...