Losing Our Way?

When babies are born, they arrive with a sense of conscience that develops over time into adulthood. The human conscience is the regulator that gives us the ability to choose right from wrong and good from evil. It is that “little voice inside our heads.” The human conscience is formed by identification like “monkey see, monkey do.”  It has its beginnings in childhood and, with age, is influenced by instruction, training, and interactions with the environment, family included. Because of these various influences, this may explain why humans do not necessarily act in the same manner or hold the same ethical and moral beliefs. It seems these days that the human conscience may be deteriorating a bit and that the…

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Sorry!

We hate mistakes. Well, our own to speak of. Last week, we said that General Eisenhower was elected to the Presidency in the 1940’s. We were wrong. It was in the 1950’s as one of our astute readers pointed out. We said, “Oh shoot, a typo” and thanked her. It proved once again that we are humans, not robots. Maggie’s Dad never liked Eisenhower which was one of Maggie’s earliest political memories. Her Dad said that he played too much golf! Imagine if her Dad had been around for four years of Trump who, by the way, did not even show up for the 9/11 remembrance last week and has never admitted to making any mistakes. No apologies there! Apologizing…

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