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On Life-Meaning And Humanness


A PARENTAL CALL TO ACTION
I regularly speak with concerned parents. Here’s what they’re saying: 1. Teachers are telling boys to earn special status by becoming...
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ATHEISM: THE DEATH OF HUMAN CHARACTER
The death of human character; The rise of pseudo diagnoses, antidepressants, addiction, faux victim virtue , and the age of excuses....
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WHAT IS "IDENTITY"?
On Identity. If you see yourself as living in a world-without-meaning, a world void of order or goodness, then your identity will be set...
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What is meant by the word, “God”?
What is meant by the word, “God”? Let’s start with the word “I.” When any of the following words are spoken: “I believe in God, I don’t...
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Poem: Morning Matrimony
Each morning, just before the sun rises, I enter the forest and take my seat. I listen, ears and heart attuned. And when the morning's...
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A Love Poem
I Want To Know You I WANT TO KNOW YOU By Dio Lyons I want to know you, what the day has given you, and you to it. I want to know how many...
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HELP OUR CHILDREN
Help your children to fall in love with being human. A fully dignified adult is a one who has received a special gift from their elders....
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A MESSAGE FOR THE MOMS
A mother activates her child’s heart...with a story. Humans are story-creatures. Why were we designed this way? Because a story transmits...
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WE ARE STORY-CREATURES
The human is a story-creature. This is as obvious and certain as the existence of gravity. When we trace back our story (as woven into...
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A DEFINITION OF THE WORD, HUMAN
The human is a story-creature. Stories are made by mixing both time and meaning. Time and meaning offer us a destiny worthy of being...
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E-COURSE COMING SOON
Liberty-Based Parenting, Leadership, and Storytelling: The Bundle Reveal E-Course: Strengthen your family bonds. Help your children...
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ON LIBERTY AND ON LIFE-MEANING
LIBERTY Liberty is not an object or an ideology, and it’s not something we carry like a talisman. Instead, liberty is a road, and we...
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WORTH PROTECTING ABOVE ALL
Each of us is born to a group. Humans live in groups because we are physically vulnerable creatures. So that we can functionally live in...
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9 WORLDVIEW STORIES
Which WORLD do you live in? Intro: We humans are incapable of perceiving objects (objects in and of themselves). Instead, we only...
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LIBERTY: SPOKEN FROM THE CHOPPING BLOCK
Addressed To: Parents, Liberty-Leaders, Church Congregations, Religious Leaders, and America-First Political Leaders. Many of you are...
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Liberty’s Three Preconditions
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, with certain...
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A DEFINITION OF THE WORD, SLAVE
Humans are story creatures. For our story to hold meaning and for our story to have a satisfying and life-affirming arc, the story’s...
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THE CORNERSTONE
Standing The Test Of Time: The human story. HOW TO CONVERSE WITH THE MENTALLY BROKEN: As a matter of social practice, I do not entertain,...
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WHAT IS HUMAN?
We have been given language, empathy, memory, facial expressions, love, grief, time, senses, logic, thumbs, and tool-making, all so that...
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THE WAR AGAINST OUR HUMANNESS
10,000 Years Of Battle. Some people fight for power, others fight to preserve what is human, but most are duped into fighting under a...
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Thank You: To The Teachers And The Elders
A Dedication–––– I begin this, same as I do all acts of celebration, with a dedication that speaks to where my heart sits. Why? Because...
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Will Man’s Search For Meaning Reveal The Meaning He Seeks?
Wrong Search, Wrong Tools, Wrong Outcomes: On Man's Search For Meaning (An Essay) The abandoned child will one day wish to obtain the...
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Without Love, Is Life Worth Living?
Our Humanness Explored: What's Worth Protecting Above All? The Humanness essay Dio Lyons Is a life without love a life that’s worth...
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The Social Justice Warrior Illness
On Desperation And Belonging In The Post-Industrial Age (SJW= Social Justice Warrior) An Essay QUESTIONS: What happens to a mind whose...
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Communism: A Cultural Disease? No, A Cultural Death
A person who denies the link between a government’s promise of the “public good” and the death of that culture, is like the drunkard who...
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