Essence Incognito

One must find one's meaning above the commonly human. 'Person' is a euphemism for inertia, conditioning, and what you are before supposedly making something of yourself. We do well to overcome it.

Your unique position in the cosmos implies that the meaning of existence is not the inevitable outcome of evolution. Evolution might well cause the last person instead of the superperson. The meaning of your life is in rising above the common mass.

This rising, this going over, requires that you become a creator. A break with previous rules is constructive only when you've disciplined yourself in all areas of knowledge. The last thing you want is to be easy on yourself. First comes the beast of burden, then the defiant lion, then the creator.

Adapted from Nietzsche

Before Dawn

The surest way to corrupt yourself is to be exposed to those who think alike rather than those who think differently.

The Cat's Out of the Bag

"I'm the death of real."

--Simone, from the film, S1MONE

The Aimless-Purpose-Driven Life

Moved by a passion they don't understand for a goal they seldom reach,
people are haunted by the vision of a distant possibility
that refuses to be extinguished.

Nathaniel Branden

The Continuing Inquisitions

Some who complain about the Inquisition and witches being burned at the stake enjoy doing their own heresy-hunting.

They advocate tolerance but are intolerant of anyone who disagrees with them. They are themselves dogmatic, fanatical, paranoid, and of course ---surprise!--- anti-intellectual.

Especially when someone calls their philosophical bluff.

No End In Sight

My writings will never be finished. I write things and then later on think they're immature.

But to stop writing because of the endless reconstruction would be to fall for the entropic fallacy, the same false assumption that general pessimism depends on. So in spite of imminent entropic doom and the world situation, I'm somehow just as hopeful as I've ever been.

Impatience to better my situation caused a number of problems, but they were also by-products of just morally and spiritually rethinking issues. That slow process of change began long ago when I asked a few key questions, thereafter wanting to free myself and my mind from authority and bias, and continued until I braved the woes and interrogated what I assume in those questions.

Now I resolutely face the worst and reject almost like breathing the authority of anything merely established or traditional while trying to develop my own habits that measure up to the standards I've chosen, such as freedom, humaneness, and rational criticism.

I also realize now that I alone am responsible for controlling my life , and no other human authority. It's up to me alone to avoid suffering, sickness, and death so that I can pursue my goals as much as possible while I have the time.

Of course, this personal revolution has carried with it certain self-destructive powers.

But they may yet be comfortably subdued by a wiser ascendancy.

Win Or Lose

Whoever loses control, loses.