If you listen to the media, your head is filled with perverted nonsense directed by psychopaths. Although it may seem entertaining, the subliminal effect is confusion and depression.
The reaction to this one surprised me. Some thought it was my best post, and I thought it might go viral. However, it had fewer than 50 comments when I wrote this, indicating it fell flat for many. Let me emphasize a few things:
1. Please comment below rather than in an email so others will benefit.
2. I appreciate anything you write about my work as long as you are sincere and not repetitive. Negative feedback is fine.
3. I judge success by the number of comments, so thank you for any feedback you have time to offer me.
Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston University, is a devout Catholic who has a great lecture series on all the various philosophers from the ancient age, including Confucius, to the post-modern. He has respect for them all except for Rousseau. But that is because Rousseau abandoned his illegitimate children to orphanages instead of marrying his mistress and providing for them.
Thank you Dr. Yoho, very good of you to share these writings with us, some I had read before, many I had not. I have been prone to inaction as a reaction to seemingly overwhelming circumstances. Sometimes I must trick myself into beginning a task in order to find myself finishing it.
If you enjoy good writing, take a look at Jeff Childers Coffee & Covid Substack. He is an attorney in FL who is a brilliant writer with a dose of humor, who does a brief news commentary each morning. He was at the forefront of fighting the mask and vaxx mandates.
"The central principle is that reviewing universal truths is more valuable than anything else, even learning new material." Wise words indeed. Failure to observe the truism is a tenet of scientism.
“This eclectic approach crosses many fields .. The principle underlying my effort is a life of service.” Good work, message received. I’m sure many will benefit from these snippets.
My late husband was like this, wanting to know, having the answers, and wisdom operating from the brain expressed in thought and deed. Well viva la difference, because as his feminine counterpart, my path was fuelled by understanding, caring and Love as food from the heart.. Very harmonious though, as together we were family, blessed with children and complete in Gods embrace.
Good to see some Castaneda in there, although this is a quote from Don Juan: "We chose only once to be warriors or ordinary men. A second choice does not exist. Not on this earth." Don Juan's conception of a warrior was one on the path to knowledge. I believe he also said: "One goes to knowledge as one goes to war." Knowledge has to be fought for and claimed. We mistake memorization and regurgitation as knowledge.
Another thing that occurs to me is something I had to learn (or relearn) while getting sober: how you think affects both physical and mental health. For example, thinking that the universe is conspiring against you (as if the Universe doesn't have more important things to think about!) can have awful consequences. It ain't all about YOU, buster! It was also a startling lesson in just how powerful the mind's influence can be.
Expectations are the enemy of happiness. Most people seem to think that life should be good and happy all the time and it’s their fault(or someone else’s) if they are not happy, but life throws us curve balls we don’t expect. Understanding that bad times are just part of life is the key to happiness. This is how a tetraplegic in a wheelchair lives a happy life, by making the best of the situation and continuing to actively live their life. Be happy on your deathbed because it’s just part of life and not unexpected. You may as well enjoy it. Build your treasures in heaven and you will always be happy no matter what life throws your way. Stress is unnecessary and is also a choice. Instead of seeing yourself as your intellect, see yourself as the observer of your intellect instead. This will see you rise above your emotions and see reality for what it truly is.
I'm still working my way through this (and savoring), but WOW! From Marcus Aurelius to Joan Rivers! Here's one of my favorite aphorisms from the late, great psychiatrist Thomas Szasz: "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." (One of the great blessings of being retired is being able to more nearly live it.)
Thank You Robert, sorry for doing it only now, after listening to these many interesting quotes and thoughts.. One word about John Paul II.. He wrote a great book about FREE WILL, which can really help in understanding why there is evil in this world..
“No matter our success or how much money we make, life would not be worth living without women.” —Aristotle Onassis.
those who believe in biblical written history, know that there was only ONE MAN without a mother, ADAM, the rest by that design has a mother, a woman, who should teach her future child a pathway of LOVE and devotion, appreciation for LIFE. With that, an entirely different process accompanied JESUS birth, a time in human history marked on every calendar, in all books, articles pointing to the meaning 'BC'=Before Christ, ever since:
'BC/AD system took more than two hundred years to establish after its sixth-century introduction. The Gregorian calendar needed 170 years for England to accept.' Maybe people do not know, but
according to Daniel:
"And he shall think to change times and laws." — Daniel 7:25
now
'The pattern subtly accelerates: Search results quietly prioritize BCE/CE. AI models automatically convert BC/AD references. Academic journals reject submissions with "outdated chronology."
The Bible has already proclaimed this. First the thought and THEN the action. One does not ALWAYS perform the action but frequently that is the case. And if one does not perform it, then one has thought about it enough to consider whether or not it is right or wrong. A Bible believer bases his opinion on right vs. wrong on what God has said. I firmly believe that the thought comes to a person, often instigated by the evil put before him (TV, movies, magazines, public school teachings,), and then the person puts that thought into action. Those who indulge in pornography need to keep increasing the level of depravity to have the required results and sometimes that requires acting out the depravity. We see it EVERY day. The movies get more and more pornographic and depraved. The television offerings do also. The magazines are much worse than they used to be. In the 50s, 60s and 70s Playboy magazine was shocking for its time but when people had become accustomed to that level then HUSTLER magazine came on and Playboy had to up the ante and COSMOPOLITAN magazine had vulgar articles so then SEVENTEEN magazine had to become vulgar and horrid. It's not a revelation but it's true and most people don't care a whit. It's their world turning awful that they applaud and reward with their money and attention.
The Holy Spirit (part of the Triune God) can put thoughts, such as discernment, into your head. Pray to God that his Holy Spirit will guide you through life.
The reaction to this one surprised me. Some thought it was my best post, and I thought it might go viral. However, it had fewer than 50 comments when I wrote this, indicating it fell flat for many. Let me emphasize a few things:
1. Please comment below rather than in an email so others will benefit.
2. I appreciate anything you write about my work as long as you are sincere and not repetitive. Negative feedback is fine.
3. I judge success by the number of comments, so thank you for any feedback you have time to offer me.
This should be in every household so people get a reminder on a daily basis so they nurture the mind just as clean organic food does it for he body.
All such godless philosophy perishes at death.
Only faith in the living Lord Jesus Christ can give a man new life — both here and for eternity!
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.” --- Gospel of John, 14:6
Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston University, is a devout Catholic who has a great lecture series on all the various philosophers from the ancient age, including Confucius, to the post-modern. He has respect for them all except for Rousseau. But that is because Rousseau abandoned his illegitimate children to orphanages instead of marrying his mistress and providing for them.
He didn't even need to marry her... Simply provide funds for the children she carried in her womb, after her eggs were impregnated by his sperm.
Exactly Don! God loves us so much He came to this earth to die for our sins and rose from the dead proving who He is! 🙏🏻
Thank you Dr. Yoho, very good of you to share these writings with us, some I had read before, many I had not. I have been prone to inaction as a reaction to seemingly overwhelming circumstances. Sometimes I must trick myself into beginning a task in order to find myself finishing it.
If you enjoy good writing, take a look at Jeff Childers Coffee & Covid Substack. He is an attorney in FL who is a brilliant writer with a dose of humor, who does a brief news commentary each morning. He was at the forefront of fighting the mask and vaxx mandates.
Cheers.
This was one of my favorites you have posted. Many wise words and always need read and re-read. Very uplifting for the spirit. Thank You Dr. Yoho.
"The central principle is that reviewing universal truths is more valuable than anything else, even learning new material." Wise words indeed. Failure to observe the truism is a tenet of scientism.
This is my fantastic editor, who helped me with the structure of this article.
Solomon was a little before Emerson. He wrote: Proverbs 23:7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he:
Thank you for this excellent compilation of wise words.
“This eclectic approach crosses many fields .. The principle underlying my effort is a life of service.” Good work, message received. I’m sure many will benefit from these snippets.
My late husband was like this, wanting to know, having the answers, and wisdom operating from the brain expressed in thought and deed. Well viva la difference, because as his feminine counterpart, my path was fuelled by understanding, caring and Love as food from the heart.. Very harmonious though, as together we were family, blessed with children and complete in Gods embrace.
Good to see some Castaneda in there, although this is a quote from Don Juan: "We chose only once to be warriors or ordinary men. A second choice does not exist. Not on this earth." Don Juan's conception of a warrior was one on the path to knowledge. I believe he also said: "One goes to knowledge as one goes to war." Knowledge has to be fought for and claimed. We mistake memorization and regurgitation as knowledge.
Another thing that occurs to me is something I had to learn (or relearn) while getting sober: how you think affects both physical and mental health. For example, thinking that the universe is conspiring against you (as if the Universe doesn't have more important things to think about!) can have awful consequences. It ain't all about YOU, buster! It was also a startling lesson in just how powerful the mind's influence can be.
Expectations are the enemy of happiness. Most people seem to think that life should be good and happy all the time and it’s their fault(or someone else’s) if they are not happy, but life throws us curve balls we don’t expect. Understanding that bad times are just part of life is the key to happiness. This is how a tetraplegic in a wheelchair lives a happy life, by making the best of the situation and continuing to actively live their life. Be happy on your deathbed because it’s just part of life and not unexpected. You may as well enjoy it. Build your treasures in heaven and you will always be happy no matter what life throws your way. Stress is unnecessary and is also a choice. Instead of seeing yourself as your intellect, see yourself as the observer of your intellect instead. This will see you rise above your emotions and see reality for what it truly is.
I'm still working my way through this (and savoring), but WOW! From Marcus Aurelius to Joan Rivers! Here's one of my favorite aphorisms from the late, great psychiatrist Thomas Szasz: "Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is." (One of the great blessings of being retired is being able to more nearly live it.)
Retirement was a revolution in my learning process.
Thank You Robert, sorry for doing it only now, after listening to these many interesting quotes and thoughts.. One word about John Paul II.. He wrote a great book about FREE WILL, which can really help in understanding why there is evil in this world..
in a different sense:
“No matter our success or how much money we make, life would not be worth living without women.” —Aristotle Onassis.
those who believe in biblical written history, know that there was only ONE MAN without a mother, ADAM, the rest by that design has a mother, a woman, who should teach her future child a pathway of LOVE and devotion, appreciation for LIFE. With that, an entirely different process accompanied JESUS birth, a time in human history marked on every calendar, in all books, articles pointing to the meaning 'BC'=Before Christ, ever since:
'BC/AD system took more than two hundred years to establish after its sixth-century introduction. The Gregorian calendar needed 170 years for England to accept.' Maybe people do not know, but
according to Daniel:
"And he shall think to change times and laws." — Daniel 7:25
now
'The pattern subtly accelerates: Search results quietly prioritize BCE/CE. AI models automatically convert BC/AD references. Academic journals reject submissions with "outdated chronology."
https://ronchapman.substack.com/p/erasing-christ-the-quiet-removal
The Bible has already proclaimed this. First the thought and THEN the action. One does not ALWAYS perform the action but frequently that is the case. And if one does not perform it, then one has thought about it enough to consider whether or not it is right or wrong. A Bible believer bases his opinion on right vs. wrong on what God has said. I firmly believe that the thought comes to a person, often instigated by the evil put before him (TV, movies, magazines, public school teachings,), and then the person puts that thought into action. Those who indulge in pornography need to keep increasing the level of depravity to have the required results and sometimes that requires acting out the depravity. We see it EVERY day. The movies get more and more pornographic and depraved. The television offerings do also. The magazines are much worse than they used to be. In the 50s, 60s and 70s Playboy magazine was shocking for its time but when people had become accustomed to that level then HUSTLER magazine came on and Playboy had to up the ante and COSMOPOLITAN magazine had vulgar articles so then SEVENTEEN magazine had to become vulgar and horrid. It's not a revelation but it's true and most people don't care a whit. It's their world turning awful that they applaud and reward with their money and attention.
The Holy Spirit (part of the Triune God) can put thoughts, such as discernment, into your head. Pray to God that his Holy Spirit will guide you through life.