Thoughts, articles, and published work.
March 24, 2018
The universe does not respond to your ‘energy’ in kind, and I'm incredibly exhausted by people who claim that it does. All these ideas, whether from ‘The Secret’ or taught by self-styled second-hand…
April 11, 2017
Spinoza saw... that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second." The Android and the Human (1972), PKD
November 18, 2016
It's the height of intellectual laziness to accuse any man who has anything to say about women or gender relations of 'mansplaining'. It's not clever. It betrays a complete inability to actually…
October 15, 2016
You are your body, and it is you. Your body is not something you (as a fairy tale disembodied spirit) inhabit; it is you. We are our bodies, and claims to the contrary serve religious zealots and all…
June 6, 2016
Congratulations, ye Children of Akhenaten! I know some of you like to think of yourselves as Muslims, or Christians, or Jews, for that matter, but we both know your basic operating premise is that of…
June 2, 2016
You expect the universe to be logical, and perhaps it is, but you're hardly in possession of all the pieces of the puzzle. In fact, you do not even know how many puzzle pieces there are. Universal…
Yes, you should avoid people who are unkind to strangers but do not make the mistake of thinking that those who are kind to strangers find it equally easy to be kind to those with whom they're close.…
May 12, 2016
We judge all the time, and that's how we decide who we like, who we don't, who we trust, and who we don't. Who we are friendly towards, and who we're not. This isn't something 'wrong' that we do. In…
October 29, 2015
For every sickening action, there is an opposite and at least equally sickening reaction.
August 9, 2015
I find most of the complexity, when it comes to mental issues, to be illusory. Then again, I also think that to some extent, all our 'conscious thought' is literally our brain's 'noise' and a result…
July 2, 2015
Too often, we react to other people's posts on social media as though they represent the final conclusions, thoughts, and emotions of those posting. More often than not, they are nothing but their…
March 22, 2014
Being held by armed men - in most cases, that would be the police or the military - is something anybody who's never been arrested or tried for a crime can't ever quite understand. In my case, I…
March 14, 2014
I am generally quite aware of what I'm saying, and I work hard on maintaining what I refer to as the integrity of my internal monologue. If I do things that contradict what I say, then I tend to work…