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L’Chaim: The 18th Anniversary of the Day I Was Nearly Murdered
Exactly 18 years ago on this day, I nearly died. A somewhat morbid reflection on everything that has happened since. As I’ve discussed in an earlier article, I was the victim of an anti-Semitic hate...
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Believing in Free Will Makes You Feel More Like Your True Self
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Elizabeth SetoDo we have free will? This is a question that scholars have debated for centuries and will probably continue to debate for centuries to come.This isn’t a...
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A Man’s Obstacle is the World
Embed from Getty ImagesI don’t do very much.It wasn’t until recently that I learned to forgive myself for this. Sometimes I feel I might even embrace myself as someone who abstains from doing things,...
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Blowing Bubbles on my 63rd Birthday
—A journalist once asked Albert Einstein: “What is the most important question we can ask?” Albert’s reply: “Is the universe a safe place?”Got to hand it to Albert. He knew how to ask the big...
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How I Discovered That Life’s Meaninglessness Can Be Meaningful
In just two words of five syllables, medieval man brewed a bitter antidote to all from melancholy and regret to hubris and ostentation: memento mori (“remember [that you have] to die”). The phrase...
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Living in a world where everything’s already been said, felt, and done before, can anyone truly be unique? And is thinking about this too much really a good idea? Deepness Of The Fry from The Animation...
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The Study of Philosophy
With all of the ways one could spend four years in college, why would anyone study philosophy? It’s impractical. It’s largely self-serving. Given the vast syllabus of reading necessary to be even...
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Green Eyed
Lloyd, a successful yuppie in the 1980s, has a beautiful woman, a great car and an impressively opulent life. But he faces an existential crisis when a ghoul named Phillipe joins his social circle and...
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Can Business Be Philosophical?
Recently I shared with you my passion for philosophy. You probably know I also have a profound passion for business. And music, The Beatles, The Dodgers, wine, literature, children’s needs, social...
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Book Review — This Life: Secular Faith & Spiritual Freedom
It’s a question without an answer, yet it’s the most important question any human has asked or will ever ask: What is the meaning of life? Largely, our perennial engagement with this question is the...
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Life, as Taught by Billy Joel
Most of my life I’ve been searching for meaning. There has to be an explanation for all of the discomfort that confounds humanity. Things just don’t make any sense. Nothing ever works out the way it...
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I Think, Therefore I Am: Another Problem for the Mind to Solve
For as long as I can remember, I believed I could get through any difficult situation as long as I sat back and thought about it hard enough. What could be too difficult to handle as long as I focus my...
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When We Dehumanize Others, We Dehumanize Ourselves
Perhaps you’ve noticed humanity seems to be standing at a precipice. Our pride and vengeance creeping toward chaos. These are not recent concerns — they have always murmured — but they appear to be...
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Robert Frost’s Cold Universe
In reading “The Raven,” Robert Frost likely identified with the following lines: “Deep into that darkness peering / long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, / dreaming dreams no mortal dared...
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Once You Label Me You Negate Me
In those dark moments in the corners of my mind, I find myself begging to vanish from the courtousies that life implies. I want to be cloacked as the cloud that was above the street where I once...
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Three Love Lessons From Existentialism
When I first started studying philosophy, I became intoxicated with existentialism. It seemed to speak to every angsty feeling I had, validate every sneaking suspicion that nothing was really...
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4 Ways To Address Existential Anxiety
Existential anxiety is the ultimate FOMO. I am not afraid of dying as much as I’m afraid of not living. It is peak fear of missing out. I’ve felt it since I was a child, and I see that same link of...
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Truth Is a Moving Target
I don’t know much about dying, because I’m a bit inexperienced. So far, I’m unable to recommend the experience. For all of my life, metaphor has been my sword, my shield, my refuge. Two metaphors about...
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The Optimism I Found in Existential Nihilism
In my first encounter with existential nihilism, I thought it was a pretty depressing outlook. If life has no inherent meaning, I thought that meant that life would be pointless and we should all...
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The Core of Sustainable Living
This post contains extracts from my book Anti-trend. They are taken from the beginning of Chapter 2: Anti-trendy Intuition as well as from the subsection in the same chapter with the subtitle The...
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