Musings
Non-fiction writing
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On Writing
Edited from excerpts of 12/7/23 – Continued Thoughts on Learning What a painful and inefficient way to grow and learn it is, to be corrected by a faceless, general audience. And this is my lot because…
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Litany on Potential
Potential is not the metric of a life in this moment. It is always beyond, always ahead. There is no end in sight to my potential, or to anyone’s. My life will not be the end…
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Grey Hairs
One should refrain from practicing philosophy until one has grey hairs. By the same nature as evolution, self-importance, acceptance of fate, self-delusion and valuation of the status quo are the tenets of worthless old men, all…
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The Death of Hope
From 11/27/23 – On The Internet “I want to collect milestones in my personal growth, but I don’t want to face the embarrassment at having held an opinion that I’ve since grown from. I want to…
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On Existential Psychoanalysis
Edited from “2/17/23 – On Existential Psychoanalysis” To extend the title: ‘in relation to Sam Harris’ explication of determinism’: Per Sartre’s description of existential psychoanalysis, the exercise that I performed previously for Sam’s Free Will can…
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The Human Knows Where It Is
An object is what it is because it is. The human understands what an object is by knowing what it isn’t. By relating what an object is to what it isn’t, the human creates a relation…
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An Exercise on Free Will
Edited from “1/18/23 – An Exercise on Free Will” In his 2012 essay ‘Free Will’, Sam Harris describes the causal nature of impulses (which lead to actions) as a logical argument against the concept of Free…
Sanctity and Constraint 