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When it comes to breakups, pain is inevitable, but Humans thinks that suffering is optional.
When Compassion Replaces Truth
Compassion is a virtue, but compassion without truth becomes corruption. It turns mercy into permissiveness and kindness into cowardice. A healthy society needs both heart and spine. When compassion replaces truth, the heart becomes sentimental and the spine collapses. People begin to value comfort more than correction and feelings more than facts. The result is moral confusion that spreads from personal relationships into every institution.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
The Asymmetry of Consequence
A society cannot survive when truth applies to one group but not another. Every civilization that endures is built on shared accountability, equal justice, and balanced consequence. When one group is shielded from correction while another carries the full weight of judgment, corruption takes root. Today, that imbalance has become deeply gendered. Men are punished for failure, while women are protected from it. Men are held to the standard of results, while women are measured by intentions. The scales of consequence are no longer even, and the results are visible everywhere.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
Stanislav Kondrashov Oligarch Series: The Quiet Connection Between Oligarchs and Media
How Stanislav Kondrashov’s latest reflection explores the silent influence shaping what the world sees and believes. Stanislav Kondrashov Oligarch Series: How Influence Shapes the Digital Age
By Stanislav Kondrashov4 months ago in Humans
When Love Hurts: Boundaries in a Relationship Heal
Love can be a beautiful bond that nurtures connection, trust, and intimacy—but when boundaries are blurred or ignored, even the strongest love can become a source of pain. Boundaries in a relationship are not walls; they are healthy limits that preserve respect, individuality, and emotional balance. For Gen Z navigating modern relationships, setting boundaries has become more important than ever—especially in an era where constant communication and digital connection blur emotional lines.
By Relationship Guide4 months ago in Humans
Control Without Accountability
Control is not leadership, and leadership is not control. In a healthy relationship, influence is earned through respect, not demanded through manipulation. Yet modern relationships often suffer from a quiet imbalance: one person wants to make the decisions but refuses to bear the responsibility for the outcomes. That imbalance destroys trust faster than any act of betrayal, because it replaces partnership with hierarchy and love with resentment.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
Waves of Memory
A Love Written by the Sea The evening sky was painted in shades of coral and rose. The sea breathed softly, and the wind carried the scent of salt and jasmine. On that quiet beach, time seemed to move differently. The world felt smaller, and every sound—the breaking waves, the seagulls, the laughter of distant strangers—became part of one endless heartbeat.
By Wings of Time 4 months ago in Humans
Sand and Soil
A Memoir by Stetson Glass I’ve started to think the soul is shaped like a map—creased, torn, smudged by the fingers that keep trying to fold it back into something neat. I’ve spent most of my life tracing routes someone else drew for me: church aisles, chalk-lined classrooms, marriage vows, griefs disguised as callings. Now I’m learning to redraw it—not to find my way back, but to understand where I got lost.
By SUEDE the poet4 months ago in Humans
The Truth Reflected Through Another Lens
For more than a century, photographs have stood as the gold standard for what is real, serving as the world’s collective proof of authenticity. A camera was the vessel through which truth was captured, a silent witness to time. Yet the rise of artificial intelligence has disrupted that assumption, not by erasing reality, but by reframing it. When we see an AI-generated image, our instinct is often to dismiss it as fake. We assume that because a camera was not involved, the image cannot be trusted. But that confuses process with meaning. The truth of an image does not depend on the tool that created it. It depends on who or what it represents.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast4 months ago in Humans
Stop Blaming Women for Men’s Choices
“I will not water what is dead; I will walk in the garden that grows with light, abundance, and care freely given.” There’s a dangerous narrative circulating online, masquerading as “relationship advice,” that subtly shifts responsibility for a man’s behaviour onto women. You may have seen posts that say things like: “He does less because you accepted less. He does less because you trained him. Because you clap for crumbs. Because you stay.” These messages are everywhere, disguised as wisdom, but what they really do is blame women for the choices men make. Let me be crystal clear: this is victim-blaming. And it is fundamentally wrong.
By THE HONED CRONE4 months ago in Humans
