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Loving Anger
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. Revelation 3:16 In our culture, the feeling of anger has a bad reputation, and this is not entirely without reason. Anger, after all, often comes across as distasteful or rude. It is seen as unproductive, or…
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The Only Free Psychiatrist
Why do people pray? I don’t mean whether we should pray or whether prayer is effective, but why do people pray? What’s the logic? Prayer is something that sometimes doesn’t make sense in an immediate way. We often hear things like, “I’ll pray for you,” or, “I’ll pray for such and such a thing.” Maybe…
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Unorthodoxy
I’m a bit of a perfectionist. For those who know me, this might come as a surprise. I can imagine them asking, “How can you justifiably call yourself a perfectionist when your room looks like that?” It’s a fair point, well made, so perhaps I should be a little more specific. While I’m not the…
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The Banality of Evil
When I first learned who Hitler was (at a rather young age), I pictured him looking something like a cartoon villain. I imagined someone who looked disheveled and unkept, with violent facial features and crazy eyes. Maybe even with an evil moustache. (If you’ve seen Harry Potter, I imagined him looking something like Sirius Black…
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I Live in a Mansion
I live in a mansion. That’s what I tell people, anyway. Technically, it’s the truth. I do live in a mansion, but it’s not actually my mansion. To be completely honest, I have a room in a mansion, and I share the place with something like 24 other people. The mansion itself is actually a…
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Kids Ask Stupid Questions
What’s the stereotpical question that a child would ask? For me, when I think of kids asking questions, the first one that comes to mind is this: “Why is the sky blue?” Kids are stereotypically curious about the world and the way it works, sometimes to the point of annoyance. But that’s alright. Though we…
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I’m a Gambling Man
I owe perhaps more to one philosopher than any other: René Descartes. When I read his first two meditations on philosophy, I was an 18 year old freshly committed to getting his life on track after all of his antics from the high school years prior. I had no idea what I was going to…
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Everybody Loves Waymond
I want to revisit perhaps my favourite movie of all time: Everything, Everywhere, All At Once. Previously, I’ve described the film as grappling with absurdism, defeatism, and nihilism. (You can read my original post here.) In trying to overcome them, I thought it did a great job. The film both validated those difficult philosophical questions,…
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The Wave
I once imagined what it would be like to near the end of my life. (This is very in-character for me.) What would be on my mind? When I thought about what lies ahead and everything that has passed, what would I see? What would I like to see? One of the things I’ve imagined…
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