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Well then what do I like?
Browsing through my posts on here it is apparent that I dislike almost everything about the world I live in. So that has me considering the opposite. What do I like about this world? Relationships The first thing that always comes to mind when I consider what I value is my relationships. First and foremost,…
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On the cusp of 42.
Tomorrow is my 42nd birthday. I remain ambivalent about the day being any kind of occasion, and instead prefer to focus on others in the time surrounding this annual occurrence. Over the weekend, I was able to spend a lot of quality time with my muse and we had a good deal of fun together…
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“That’s not what he meant.”
Over the weekend, during a rally, a would-be emperor said that everyone needs to get out and vote just this one time. He said that things were going to get fixed over the next four years so they wouldn’t need to worry about voting again. I read this remark as the obvious threat to democracy…
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Social security.
I found myself in a discussion about personal finance earlier and we made our way to the topic of Social Security. During the course of the conversation, my beautiful and incomparable lady love simply illustrated the importance of the program and how it effectively works. People who are working right now are making contributions to…
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Not ringing any bells.
Just got an email from a prospective gig that greeted me by name and as though I had applied for a position with them but it isn’t really ringing any bells. It seems like a decent enough gig, posting social media and website stuff, but it also feels like a cold pitch to try and…
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Storytellers.
Over the weekend we had a party for my lady love’s birthday and it was hours of good fun with agreeable company. We did well to steer clear of the minefields of politics and religion and the rest is history. General revelry gave way to various levels of intoxicated storytelling, and it reminded me the…
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What a week.
The past week has been an absolute blur here and it seems like everywhere else, too. I would be remiss if I didn’t discuss the elephant in the room that is Biden officially dropping out of the race for president and supporting Kamala Harris to be the nominee. Over the past few years, I had…
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Eccentricity.
I have never felt as though I belong in this world. It isn’t a statement of contempt for the state of things, but rather an implicit understanding that I don’t see things the way other people do. It isn’t to express my desire to leave this world behind either, at least not in the final,…
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A history of rambling.
In the early 2000s, I began to cut my teeth as a would-be wordsmith and armchair philosopher when I created a rather lengthy, meandering work on my general observations of the world as I had come to see it. I referred to it as a manifesto but have since distanced myself from using that word…
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Does a philosopher need a degree?
As I have spent a little time delving into philosophy and the greater questions of what life is generally about, it has made me wonder about more than a few things. One that keeps coming up is whether or not a philosopher needs a degree to be recognized as such. I want to pursue knowledge…