Our country, which I was lucky to adopt for the last 55 years (trying to contribute and be useful like the rest of my fellow citizens), is enormous, privileged, and made up by diverse people regarding origin, ethnicity, and race — nevertheless, all sharing the blessings of our freedoms and the enormous benefits of its diversity.…
And there is poetry. Poetry is putting words in an emotionally mobilized way to better express our secret deep feelings, fantasies, and life that usually we do not dare to or is nor practical to express in every day life. There are some rules to follow. Such as a sonnet 4 lines, 4 lines, etc.…
There was in the near-past a cartoon, sometimes shown before starting the main feature in a movie or on television, whereupon a coyote was forever chasing an animal known as the roadrunner through the Arizona desert. “Beep beep!” went the roadrunner. “Beep Beep” and the roadrunner was foiling the designs of the enemy forever. On…
I have often been asked what is normal in humans regarding their thinking, behavior, and their feelings. Here is my answer: A normal human being is a person that — given their genetic inheritance, plus early childhood shaping by the circumstances, modulated by genetic guidance — responds appropriately to fulfill their needs for their own survival,…
Our exaggerated responses, both by the officials and the media, while self-serving with the created big hullabaloo, to terrorist acts are in fact aiding and abetting their intended goals. We human beings are logical; i.e., we correctly take logical actions to carry out decisions whether they are rational or not. On the other hand, we…
Let’s declare from the beginning: war is not inevitable. Switzerland and Sweden with their centuries of peace attest to that. Neither is it an organized faculty residing in our human nature. Instead, there exists latent propensities for readiness to defend our home/territory; or, to conquer and grab if the occasion is perceived appropriated — all embedded…
Nicholas Pediaditakis* Department of Psychiatric Medicine, ECU Brody School of Medicine,Greenville, NC, USA The Open Neurology Journal Received: May 02, 2016 Revised: November 17, 2016 Accepted: November 30, 2016 Abstract: Conciliating recent findings from molecular genetics, evolutionary biology, and clinical observations together point to newunderstandings regarding the mechanism, development and the persistent worldwide prevalence…
By Nicholas Pediaditakis, MD Are we humans going to make it? We could and we may. We have all the qualities for it. But, we should not take that for granted, even though, we have intellect, flexibility, the ability to think rationally, as well as given the proper circumstances, to cooperate towards common goals. On…
Last time I wrote about xenophobia – a nasty trait in us threatening our civilization even our presence on this earth. Now I want to write about Philoxenia – i.e. the eagerness to help and take care of “others.” Xenophobia, does not have to be with us, in fact, we have to get rid of…
The fear and often hatred and even violence towards our fellow humans that they are considered as “others” because of the color of their skin, or their habits, their religious faith, or their point of origin, appears to run deep and is a curse for the entire humanity. It may even, together with some other…
Chroniclers of the Soul 