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Finding Myself in Oxford
Note: this essay was written in the summer of 2018. Going on a trip to “find yourself” after an emotionally traumatic event is a venerable old cliche, yet it happened to me. It was not on purpose and I did not recognize until some years later, but visiting Oxford in 2008 for three weeks as […]
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Memory, Identity, and a Trip to Disney
I finally got to visit Magic Kingdom! But was it my first time to do so?
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Does the Universe Have Metaphysical Meaning?
Note – this is part three of a three part series. In the previous post, Biological and Existential Meaning, I took the claim that the universe is without meaning and explored it strictly from a biological and existential perspective. This investigation into meaning cannot be complete without considering metaphysical meaning, which might also be called […]
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Biological and Existential Meaning
Does our existence have meaning? Yes, it does both biologically and existentially.
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Does the Universe Have Meaning?
What does it mean when we say that the universe does or does not have meaning?
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Trying to Find God in the Cosmological Argument
Where Did We Come From? Do you remember the first time you had that moment where the immensity, size, range, ratio and infinite nature of the universe suddenly struck you, and it was so overwhelmingly massive, your mind could not create a container large enough to hold it? And you wondered where it came from, […]
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Knowledge and Knowing
The Analog Revolt: The Dark Crystal, E-books, and Record Players
Why do we reject artificial or synthetic things?
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Metaphysics
Life’s a Beach: Imagination and Reality
Is imagining something any less real than actually doing it? And if so, what does this say about experience?
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How Should We Respond to Beauty?
Since beauty is around us all the time, how should we respond to it?
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How To Live
Religion and Spirituality
To Live Is to Live Authentically
What is it to live authentically? And it is possible?
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