These short reflections and insights range in length from twitter-length to short essays. They’re free, so what’ve you got to lose but a few moments?
I have some good news, and some bad news. Which do you want first? I always want the bad news first, so that’s what you’ll get. OK, the bad news is there is a hell.
But the good news is that it’s not as bad as you might think. It’s not where you think it is, […]
The ability to choose is predicated on the existence of time. Without time, there is no need, and no ability, to choose anything because everything stays the same. Time only exists to measure change. Time exists to allow me to jump back into a state of changelessness, in which there is no suffering. I choose, […]
A friend died recently. Not a good death. If you heard the circumstances and you believed in reincarnation, you might conclude that the man might need to come back and finish on a higher note.
I can’t judge that. I don’t have enough information to know whether people whose lives end in suicide or alcoholism need […]
This moment is the convergence, the culmination of every decision you’ve ever made. Your whole life intersects right here, right now. It’s the important moment of your life. You have brought you here, and nothing you’ve done has ever been by accident. There are no accidents. There are no mistakes, not in the grander scheme. […]
A lot of us (myself included) have spent a much time looking up to the heavens and waiting for the extraterrestrial object, maybe watching a movie or TV series on UFO’s, reading books on UAP phenomenon. I’ve wished for contact, hoped for rescue, both for myself and for humanity, by a superintelligent, overly wise big […]
We are a limitless being which chose to live itself as a multitude of limited creatures. In our limited states, we can no longer fathom what it means to be infinite.
This doesn’t mean that we’ve lost our capacity for infinitude, or that we’re forever condemned to live and die and live and die again as […]
A lot of the arguments against the existence of God center around what Freud called wish fulfillment, the idea that we want something – relief from suffering, the reward of an afterlife – to be true. Therefore, we imagine it to be true. We invent a God.
One doesn’t have to look far back into history […]
“Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.” So goes a famous quote from John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is uttered by Satan after his expulsion from paradise.
Today, we may understand that quote differently than when it was written by its author. We may interpret it, instead, as asking whether we’d rather be right than happy. For us, to rule in hell […]
Many of our prayers ask for healing. In one way or another, healing is all we ever ask for. On some level, most problems can be reduced to a kind of illness. It may be physical, or emotional. Perhaps the disorder is financial or collective. Whatever the manifestation of illness, it’s source almost always seems […]
Anything worthwhile in this world can’t be taken away from us. If it could be, would it really be worth having? I mean, lots of things do go by the wayside. Things like money, possessions, youth, beauty, talent. Our health seems to wane. Our very lives appear to end in something we call death. But […]