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Created in 2021 this website is the online scaffolding for questions pertaining to philosophy, literature, poetry, and the gentle transcendences that make up ordinary life.
This site aims to grow organically, without a grand strategy in place, the criteria for what makes it on this website is simply what is interesting to contemplate.
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Being and Becoming
Throughout a life there are many points in which one reflects and looks upon their self with serious inquiry, where one might construct a story, conclude something about oneself, learn something, discover something, become informed, or embark on any number of self revealing missions as trivial as taking a personality test or as grandiose as…
Brooding on Truth
In a single day I will traverse the intellectual expanse of philosophy from transcendental idealism to a skeptical naturalism, to a radical empiricism, all in a quest for some intellectual consistency, some philosophic understanding of that which gives rise to our world. It is indeed a contemplation of mystery, of unfalsifiable metaphysics, of the philosophy…
The Valor of Sadness
Sometimes I am a lake That behaves as though I were a river But now and then I can look at my arms and stare at them like foreign objects And I can feel a pain that isn’t really there And then if I’m lucky I may shed some tears And this whole process is…
The Dizziness of Freedom
Jack Nicholson famously said in the cinematic ground zero of American nostalgia Easy rider, that “America loves to talk about individual freedom, but they hate to see a free individual.” Three decades before, Karl Jaspers of Germany was opining on the demands made on man* by the modern world that accompany an immense new freedom,…
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