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Toward Life Or Toward Death
We have a fundamental choice before us in our words and behavior: will we serve life with this or will we serve death? People are under all sorts of terrible influences these days. They are told violence is highly stylistic and preferable. They are told submission to death is a great reward. They are nudged… Continue reading
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Leaving The Land Of The Lost
Self-knowledge and philosophy, terms I use relatively interchangeably, are harsh mistresses. There is no perfect guarantee that once we embark on a process of self-reflection that everything from before will remain exactly intact as it was afterwards. People struggle miserably against this fact. They struggle against their own conscience. Their conscience tells them, “This person… Continue reading
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People Talk Past Each Other
People, at their most inattentive, are caught up in to-do’s, shoulds, and narratives about their lives that may or may not have anything to do with the social feedback around them. If a person wants to get things done, so be it. If a person wants to be intimately involved in the people around them,… Continue reading