Some random musings of mine, as well as an amalgamation of thoughts from various people I’ve met, read the work of, or just derived sentiment from. Out there is a larger group. Everyone fits in, whether they’d like to or not, and isn’t liking something such a strange thing anyway? I don’t know why people [...]
On Stoic Virtue
“What little bit Conrad had learned about philosophy at Mount Diablo had seemed to concern people who were free and whose main problem was to choose from among life’s infinite possibilities. Only Epictetus began with the assumption that life is hard, brutal, punishing, narrow, and confining, a deadly business, and that fairness and unfairness are [...]
Delusion
To the human being, our world seems to be divided into two hemispheres: the physical and the mental. However, the nature of this division is foreign to us, even after the rise and fall of several civilizations from which we can draw experience. We still are unsure as to how such a division can exist. [...]
Ragnarok
Apocalyptic prophecies, as well as religion in general, easily garner an eye-roll from most everyone. What we see on the surface is an extravagant threat made to cow non-believers into fear of eternal damnation, or slaughter at the hands of forces above themselves; a desperate attempt to accrue validity to an ideology. Growing up, it [...]
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