Some people have deep connections. Others have not. Deep connections survive about everything. Other connections will (ultimately) fail. My diagram is about the ingredients of such connections, like the how, what, when, where, & who. The presence of ingredients will provide a (good or bad) mix. Most ingredients are from my 2022 blog The 7 elements that define...
Recently, Belgian politicians had an interesting discussion: which party in the Gaza Strip is the worst of two evils? The Flemish president didn't know who is the worst evil. HLN: “niet te weten wie de ‘grootste smeerlap’ in het conflict is". I agree because the lesser of two evils principle does not apply. The entire Gaza Strip "conflict" feels like a reminder of...
Intro LO: Op 5 oktober 2022 schreef deze journalist een soortgelijk artikel: Kent Nederland een huizentekort of een singlesoverschot? Zie ook mijn overeenkomstige overeenkomstige blog. Medio januari 2025 verscheen een soortgelijk Trouw artikel: Woningtekort? Niet echt. Er is vooral een tekort aan kleinere woningen. Zie ook mijn overeenkomstige blog. Interessant is...
Intro LO: Am I ashamed of my silence on Gaza?? No. I'm not willing to make a choice between two parties that are both guilty. It might be tempting to view the sequence in time as relevant (eg, 2023, 1947/1948 (UN), or even 1855 BC). In my view, It's not. It might also be tempting to view the severity of the fighting as relevant. In my view, it's not. It might be...
My title is a common advice by people. I suppose I use that type of advice myself as well. Nevertheless, that advice feels rather useless if and when you receive it yourself. Quite often, the issue - or “problem“ - is time-bound. The very next day, you might have forgotten already. “Firstly, I felt like it was a personal attack. As if the premise of her advice was...
Apparently, collective guilt is an issue for Germans and for Russians (eg, German collective guilt, Russians And Collective Guilt). However, it might only be a media and/or a political topic (eg, DW-2019, Hungarian Conservative-2022). At least, guilt is an emotion rather than ratio. How about individual and/or collective victim roles?? “Victim mentality is...
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