My Personal Transcendentalism.
Full disclosure, I’m not an Atheist, I did dabble with Atheism once when I was a young adolescent, but the devastating beauty of the world and its inherent perfection overwhelmed Continue Reading
Exploring the differences between Religion and Philosophy
Philosophy and religion are distinct disciplines, yet they often intersect and share common themes leading many thinkers to wonder where philosophy ends and religion begins, in other words what are Continue Reading
Stoicism vs the Crowd
Recently I’ve been revisiting Seneca’s Moral Epistles which are a letter collection of 124 letters addressed to his friend Lucilius. Among these letters, Letter VII, better known as ‘On Crowds’ has caught my Continue Reading
Generation X: The Lazy Generation!
In response to an internet comment in which someone derided Generation X as ‘the Lazy Generation.’ I’m a member of Generation X, those people born roughly between 1965 and Continue Reading
Contemplations on Space
And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin —Matthew 6:28-29 From this passage, Jesus Continue Reading
Sociopath or Not? Was Nietzsche a Sociopath?
“Was Nietzsche a sociopath?” This is a common charge directed at Nietzsche by those unfamiliar with his work along with accusations of antisemitism and so on. To this day, Continue Reading
The Buddha view of Desire
Buddhism is more than just a religion, it’s a philosophy of the mind that’s been offering profound insights since around 500BC—plenty of time for contemplating the mind! What I’d like Continue Reading
The Modern Philistine
There’s an archetype I’ve been thinking about for quite some time now based on my own observations about how certain people behave that includes their beliefs, psychology etc. in regards Continue Reading
The Psychology of Spaceman
I’ve been wanting to do this type of analysis for quite a long time, but I’ve never got around to it, but it has been a long-time goal for me Continue Reading
Transduction, the neglected weapon of Naturalism
Crack open any neuroscience textbook and you’ll be taught about the processes of the brain and the relationships between sensory organs, neural activity, and even the arising of subjective Continue Reading
The Myth of Secular Politics
I’ve been watching the recent fallout from the Rochdale By-Election with interest this week as our Hindu Prime Minister addressed the nation partially in response to the election of a Continue Reading
Understanding the Ubermensch or Superman.
In the annals of philosophy, few concepts evoke as much intrigue and controversy as Friedrich Nietzsche’s Übermensch, or Superman. Born out of Nietzsche’s magnum opus, ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra,’ the Übermensch Continue Reading
Unlocking Nietzsche’s Wisdom How Beauty Empowers Us and Undermines the Elite Agenda
Today we’re going to be talking about Nietzsche’s view of beauty, high art, and ugliness and the ramifications that it holds for us who either want to live a Continue Reading
A less encumbered philosopher
Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, responded to the news of a shipwreck and the loss of his belongings with a Stoic attitude, remarking that Fortune was advising him to be Continue Reading
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
‘By their fruits you shall know is a phrase,’ in the bible that gets truer every day. In this post pandemic world, it’s pretty easy to come to the Continue Reading
Live not by Lies
A few weeks ago, I published a video on the subject of conscription returning to the UK in response to the suggestion by General Sir Patrick Sanders that it be Continue Reading
Peace of Mind is best Mind!
If getting a happy, peaceful mind were simply distilled into a pill (without side effects), everyone would be on it— and the guy that patented it would be stinking rich! Continue Reading
Why you should hate the surveillance state.
I’ve been thinking for quite a while now, as to what it is that I don’t like about the ever-increasing amount of digital surveillance that we’re witnessing. It’s appearing everywhere Continue Reading