by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2018 | Birthday, Stories
“Father of light and life, though Good Supreme! O teach me what is good, teach me Yourself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!” I am...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 21, 2018 | Culture, Health, Psychology
I used to wake up in the middle of the night and wonder, “Does she really like me?” Every single morning, evening, she was all I could think of. I thought I was made for her and her for me. We were a rare, unique, perfect fit. Or maybe I read too much into...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 31, 2018 | Books, Culture
This is a distillation or rather excerpts of Ernest Becker’s Thoughts on Heroism, from the book “Denial of Death”. Download the book here. Becker suggests that the problem of heroics is the central one of human life, that it goes deeper into human nature than anything...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 22, 2018 | Culture, Philosophy, Psychology
The post’s title is taken from Jonathan Swift’s poem in “Cassinus and Peter”; where he laments the simultaneity of the sublime and the scatological in Caelia’s person in “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” in which two characters, Strephon and Betty, take a “strict...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 18, 2018 | Books
I will keep updating the 2018 list as the year progresses on. For the 2017 list,find it here. For the 2016 list, find it here. For the 2015 list, find it here. 1.The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker 2.How To Get Consulting Clients Fast by Frank Kern 3.Convert by...
