Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

A distressing video has emerged showing an elementary school principal and a clerk in southwest Florida paddling a 6-year-old student for allegedly scratching a computer screen. The incident was captured by the child’s mother, who went to the school to pay a fine for the damage her daughter was accused of causing. The mother claimed…

In our region of the United States, it is wise to regularly inspect the area around and beneath your car to ensure that wildlife hasn’t made it into a home. When a good-hearted woman saw a baby deer dozing beneath someone else’s automobile tire, she made the decision to intervene. A woman wanted to make…

The former Bachelor student Hailey Merkt has died at the age of 31 after a long battle with leukemia. A social media post on her personal Instagram page after she died confirmed that she had died. An image of Hailey was included in the post, which said that she had died. “It is with broken…

Life is unpredictable. Sometimes, no matter how hard we try to make things right, God has other plans. Becky is a woman who tragically lost her son Tristan, who was just 19 years old at the time he left this world. Her grief was immense. She couldn’t possibly imagine her life without her child, but…

We all go through life knowing that someday we won’t be here forever. I’m not afraid of dying and see it as a natural part of life. But what does worry me is growing old and not being able to take care of myself. The idea of relying on a hospice nurse makes me a…