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First Order Desire
1st Order Desire – A simple desire. The desire for food, comfort, and sex. 2nd Order Desire – A desire about a desire: I desire not to desire food so much, because it will make me fat. I desire not to desire sex so much, because I will catch VD. Etc. It was just after dawn. I thundered along the track, kicking up wet gravel and splashing through puddles. I was on my second two mile run of the morning. My lungs burned. No matter how hard I pumped my legs, I knew my time was going to be miserable. I doubled over three...
read moreA World That Makes Sense
I live in a world I do not understand. I had an epiphany recently. I suspected that the world had changed. At what point, I wondered, did things go wrong? Did the price of milk crest some terrible Event Horizon? Who is to blame for this? The world has not changed. I have changed. If you want to see change, study erosion. Away from the shoreline, the world does not change. Human existence is hardly a pimple on the cock of geological time. Far greater beasts than us have walked this rock and perished. I felt like I was skidding...
read moreI’m Over You, Jesus.
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?” - Epicurus The idea of a higher power is one of the long-standing traditions of human arrogance. People have the funny idea that they can dream up an Omnipotent, unfathomable being and then fathom that being’s Will. They then proceed to explain God and his/her/its Plan For...
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On national defense, the budget, and drug testing for welfare recipients.
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Condemned To It
The Human rise to dominance over the Earth covers a modest span of 10,000 years. 7,000 of those years were spent crawling through the mud. 9,500 were lived suckling at the teat of “higher powers”. Not long after the Rennaisance, the Western world was torn asunder by the sound of millions of heads separating from their asses. Man came to realize, ever-so-slowly, that the God-myth was just that. God was dead, and Zarathustra was late to the party. As with any relationship, a great deal of separation anxiety existed between...
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