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December 5, 2021 Buddhism / Compassion / Death / Meaning / Mortality / psychedelics / Spirituality / suffering

The Dance of Life: The Endless Sway Between Joy, Power and Pain

“Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky.”-

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August 24, 2021 alienation / autonomy / book review / books / capitalism / Kafka / literature / Meaning / Reflection

Alienation and The Loss of Autonomy: Thoughts on Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”

I just finished Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.” What a fucking story. I’ve read a lot more Kafka in the past year

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August 15, 2021 anxiety / Christianity / Meaning / Paul Tillich

The Anxiety of Meaninglessness and Emptiness

This week I’ve dug Paul Tillich’s “The Courage to Be.” I’m surprised by how much I love it, considering that

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July 8, 2021 children / Meaning / Musings / Reflection

Vacation Musings, Thursday July 8th

I am currently on a holiday in Whistler, British Columbia. Getting here has been a harrowing experience. I won’t bore

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June 1, 2021 Meaning / Mortality / Religion / Spirituality / television / The Leftovers

Rewatching HBO’s “The Leftovers”

When HBO’s “The Leftovers” began to air in 2014, it was an unusually glum show, and to be perfectly frank,

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March 29, 2021 Absurdism / Meaning / Mortality / Spirituality / Vanity

All Is Vanity: The Folly of Human Ambition

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. Ecclesiastes 1 I am the most important person

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