There’s evil in this world that I can’t understand. I hate that true good can lose to the lies of shape-shifting evil. That descent begins with neglecting your heart and its love. Love gives you wings; evil and its nihilism ties them down. Love never loses if you fight for it. Just make sure it really is love you are fighting for. Trust your senses and trust your mind. But also trust your heart and…
“Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.” (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II). It’s infuriating to me how complex moral judgments are often (and sometimes permanently) left ambiguous. We shouldn’t quit discerning things when it gets complex. Complexity makes things less initially clear, but it doesn’t mean we can’t get to clarity. We just need to fight harder for it. That work can lead to an answer that feels…
This was last updated July 3rd, 2025. This is just an excerpt of a draft from a few months back. “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” – Voltaire The 2024 election overwhelmed me. It was the second time I’ve voted. I went to vote with my best friend at a booth near Arizona State campus. When we got there we rushed to the back of the line (likely due to my…
Facing responsibility, it’s securing to be insecure. You are free to lay, wallowing in inertia. You are weightless. It can’t fall on you. Seems we often insinuate this soothing self doubt by practicing insincere self sleuthing. This is how we shelter ourselves from the thunderstorms of squirming that responsibility from closer to truth self-knowledge brews. Responsibility is not scary just because of its demands, but it’s revealing nature. We are so terrified to be frauds.…
Thank you @ pops for introducing me to the concept of perennialism, and for all of our discussions for hours and hours. Religious perennialism interests me, and is an appealing solution to a question that has been troubling me for a while. My understanding of it is that major religions and those with spiritual experiences are all connecting to a common truth. There’s a large set of religions each with their own central beliefs and…