Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior
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Sarcasm Is Not Funny: How the Unhealed Ego Uses Irony to Pretend Relevance and Mask Prejudice
Sarcasm is widely treated as wit: a quick retort, a social lubricant, a way to “keep things light.” But beneath the laugh and the eye-roll, sarcasm often functions as a defensive maneuver of an unhealed ego—a way to claim relevance, avoid vulnerability, and disguise contempt or prejudice as cleverness. This article restates that argument with evidence, direct quotations from the literature, and practical alternatives for people and organizations that want to stop mistaking sarcasm for moral sophistication.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout an hour ago in Humans
Fergie and Andy: The Long Fall of Two Public Lives
They arrived in the public eye as a fairy‑tale couple: a young bride with a ready laugh and a naval officer who seemed to embody duty and charm. Over decades, the story of Sarah Ferguson and Andrew Mountbatten‑Windsor became something else — a slow, public unraveling in which private mistakes, financial desperation, and dangerous friendships collided with the glare of tabloids and the machinery of modern scandal. This article traces the arc of their travails, separating what is documented from what is rumor, and asking how two people who once symbolized royal glamour came to be defined by controversy.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout an hour ago in Humans
Humor That Harms
Laughter can be a bridge. It can loosen tension, reframe pain, and make strangers feel like friends. But not all laughter is the same. When amusement depends on insulting, degrading, or humiliating another person, it is not a bridge — it is a weapon disguised as play. This article explores why insult‑based humor and contemptuous sarcasm are not true humor in the humane, connective sense; how psychological research and social studies explain their effects; and what individuals and communities can do to keep laughter from becoming harm.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout an hour ago in Humans
Death Is an Echo of Ego The Energy Moves
Death, in the deepest sense, is not an absolute cessation but a transformation of form. What we call “death” names the end of a body’s organization, not the end of the animating reality that gave the body life. Seen this way, endings become mirrors: they reveal the posture of the ego that met them. Whether a life ends by illness, accident, violence, or self‑directed choice, the event is a surface on which the soul’s relationship to control, attachment, and surrender is reflected. This piece explores that view through scripture, physics, clinical reports, depth psychology, and contemporary spiritual testimony, arguing that death does not finally exist as annihilation; energy moves, and the quality of the movement is shaped by ego.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriorabout 2 hours ago in Humans
Twin Flames Across Timelines: The Fifth Dimensional Bond That Shapes Every Incarnation
Twin Flames Across Timelines: The Fifth Dimensional Bond That Shapes Every Incarnation Human beings often move through their lives with a quiet sense that something—or someone—is missing. It is not a loneliness that can be solved by companionship, nor a longing that can be satisfied by romance. It is older than memory and deeper than desire, a subtle ache that seems to belong to another world entirely. This sensation is not a psychological projection or an unmet emotional need. It is the echo of a truth woven into the architecture of creation: every soul has a twin flame, and even when the two halves of that original wholeness are not incarnated together in the same timeline or physical reality, they remain in constant communion in the fifth dimension.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warriora day ago in Humans
The Architecture of Divine Will: Why Soul Contracts Cannot Be Bent by Spells, Angel Numbers, or Wish‑List Prayers
There is a truth older than scripture, older than language, older than the first spark of human consciousness. It is the truth that every soul arrives on earth with a purpose, a trajectory, a curriculum of learning that was chosen long before breath entered the lungs. This purpose is not random, nor is it fragile. It is woven into the architecture of Divine Will, held in the hands of a God who wastes nothing and miscalculates nothing. Every life is a lesson, every lesson is a thread, and every thread is part of a tapestry far larger than the human mind can comprehend.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior2 days ago in Humans
The Poisoned Smile: How Passive‑Aggressive Kindness Weakens a Society That Desperately Needs Courage
There is a particular kind of kindness that does not heal. It does not soothe, uplift, or transform. It does not soften the world or strengthen the bonds between people. Instead, it corrodes quietly, like water slipping into the cracks of a foundation. It is the kindness that avoids truth, the kindness that refuses to confront harm, the kindness that smiles while the house burns behind it. It is the kindness that calls itself gentle while it enables cruelty. It is the kindness that insists on seeing only flowers while the garden is choking on weeds.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior2 days ago in Humans
THE SHADOW OF THE CROWN: How Andrew Mountbatten’s Arrest Ripples Toward Washington
THE SHADOW OF THE CROWN: How Andrew Mountbatten’s Arrest Ripples Toward Washington By Julia O'Hara On a cold, colorless morning in Surrey, the kind of morning that seems to hold its breath before the day decides what it wants to be, Andrew Mountbatten was led out of his home by officers from the Metropolitan Police. The charge — Misconduct in Public Office — was delivered in the clipped, procedural tone of British law enforcement, but the moment carried a weight that no official phrasing could soften.
By Julie O'Hara - Author, Poet and Spiritual Warrior2 days ago in Humans
