I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the concept of success—what it means, and more importantly, who gets to define it. By the popular standards of the Western post-1960s model, I should probably consider myself a failure. I didn’t go to prom. I didn’t party in high school. I didn’t even finish school the normal … Continue reading The End of the Old World: Why Modern Life Feels So Hollow, Why Marriage is Dying (And What We Can Do About It)
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How to do philosophy
Real philosophy is systematic. Build solid arguments which start with foundations of reality. Follow the truth based on logical necessity to wherever it leads. Then try destroy what youve built to test if it's really true or not. Let go of what gets destroyed, keep what remains. This is also why there are many fake … Continue reading How to do philosophy
Why Ought the Eagle Not Kill the Mouse? The Metaphysical Truth About Power
Why Ought the Eagle Not Kill the Mouse? ''The strong rule the weak.The eagle kills the mouse.Nature is red in tooth and claw''—this is what we are told. And yet, beneath the violence of this assumption lies a deeper lie:That power is value.That domination is truth.That the hierarchy of flesh mirrors a hierarchy of being. … Continue reading Why Ought the Eagle Not Kill the Mouse? The Metaphysical Truth About Power
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A Descent into the Abyss to Find the Truth about Meaning and Freewill (And I Found The Answer, Thankfully)
Short version: A Descent into the Abyss to Find the Truth about Meaning and Freewill Introduction This essay is a comprehensive and structured documentation of a philosophical investigation undertaken from a strictly rational, logical foundation. The goal was to examine whether life is meaningful and whether free will exists, without assuming either as a given. … Continue reading A Descent into the Abyss to Find the Truth about Meaning and Freewill (And I Found The Answer, Thankfully)
Why You Feel So Lost – And What You Can Still Hold On To
Why You Feel So Lost – And What You Can Still Hold On To You wake up. You check your phone. Maybe you scroll through news or social media. Maybe you make a plan for the day, go to work, handle your tasks, reply to messages. But somewhere beneath it all, you feel a strange … Continue reading Why You Feel So Lost – And What You Can Still Hold On To
Rewards of the sun god. Christ (the sun god) as a model for the heroic individual
The sun god leads the sheep to bright pastures. Conquering death and the darkness. It's a model for what happens when we choose to be good despite our tragedies. This is a very old story. Far older than Christianity, though the Christian writers wisely incorporated it into their story. I have traced it as far … Continue reading Rewards of the sun god. Christ (the sun god) as a model for the heroic individual
The Threefold Anchor: Mind, Body, and Soul
There is a law of harmony between mind, body, and soul. When these three stand apart, we suffer. When they anchor into one another, we are made whole.This essay is an articulation of that law. Not a theory, but a map home. I. The Mind Is Water The mind is not a solid thing. It … Continue reading The Threefold Anchor: Mind, Body, and Soul
A possible third strand of the person: the numinous core (the soul)
also at our deepest core there does seem to be a spiritual dimension. a desire for the numenant - i forget the word, means like beyond the apparant, beyond teh material and physical , desire for the trancendanetal, every single culture across the world, from the earliest history to this very day does this. Even … Continue reading A possible third strand of the person: the numinous core (the soul)
⟡ UNIFIED PERSON THEORY (UPT) ⟡
The Unified Person Theory (UPT) is a philosophical model of the human being that explains the structure of subjectivity through two inextricably linked functional modes: consciousness and the felt self. These are not separate substances or dualistic entities—they are interwoven strands of a single being. Together, they form the person.
