Category: Reflections
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Like a bat
In my high school philosophy class, we had to read this paper by Thomas Nagel called “What is it like to be a bat?” In it, he basically makes the point that the question is impossible: we cannot literally put ourselves into another’s shoes… or, you know, wings… try as we might to imagine what…
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When the World Ends
I’ve been neglecting this topic for a while—not because I don’t care, but because I didn’t want to add to the noise. Everyone seems to have some big opinion about AI, most of them either vaguely utopian or vaguely apocalyptic, and honestly, I wasn’t interested in either. But lately, I’ve been feeling this quiet unease…
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invisible ink
I was having a chat with a bartender friend of mine who has a particularly lovely tattoo of the serenity prayer on her forearm. It’s my favourite prayer, so I asked her why she got it. “Honestly, anxiety,” she told me. I said I loved her answer. That’s precisely why I love that prayer: it’s…
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Heroes
I was asked the other day how I identify someone as one of my “heroes”. It was a good question… Really good, actually. To tell you the truth, I’ve never really thought about it. Whenever I’ve identified someone as a “hero” to me, it’s been almost instinctive. I simply admire them and feel inspired by…
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different wrapper
Once I knew a man who was, at one point, discerning a life as a Theravadan monk. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the various strains of Buddhism, allow me to explain: the Theravada School is perhaps the earliest form of Buddhism practiced in the world today. I won’t claim that it goes…
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get real
Rick and Morty is one of my favourite shows—definitely in the top-three—and this is why. It’s like Doctor Who on crack—I love it! Amidst the ridiculousness and the sci-fi level grossness of it all (not to mention the adult humour), it also succeeds in grappling with some interesting ideas. Case in point is this soliloquy…
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an ode to used bookshops
I like a good used bookshop like I like a good pub: affordable, accessible, and diverse. Strangely enough, like pubs, there’s a sense in which a used bookshop is a microcosm of the whole community. Reading attracts all types of people, after all, and you can tell a lot about someone by their taste in…
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reflections on cpe
I recently finished my first basic unit of Clinical Psychospiritual Education. It was exactly this kind of experience that I wanted when I first applied to my MDiv program. I liked theology, religion, philosophy, and that kind of thing; but I also wanted to do something with that information, y’know? I felt like that was…
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a new home 🚀
Greetings, readers! A little bit of digital housekeeping. Welcome to my blog’s new home! For the past week, I’ve been working on getting myself set up on a brand-new, shiny server in Switzerland for increased reliability and privacy. Not to mention, I’ve been among those “hosers” divesting from American big tech companies insofar as it…