Defense can't guard two things in a row.
I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.
Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.
The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.
If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.
There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that's what is unique about them.
And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.
The enslavement, humiliation, torture, and ultimate destruction of thousands upon thousands of human beings for a project for which there was ultimately no purpose is a horror that's very hard to imagine, far less understand.
If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T. D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
I'm known among my friends for saying things I probably shouldn't sometimes, but I have to get things out in the air.