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My mother called out to me late yesterday evening. She had just returned from having some coffee in town and had heard the terrible news that someone had drowned. “Larry has passed,” she said. “Larry,

It’s always better to make a good decision than to wait endlessly for something that might eventually be better. Perfection is the enemy of good. A 14th-century French philosopher named Jean Buridan shed

We come into this world to have experiences, to learn from everything that happens to us, the good and the bad, and amongst these lessons is the importance of happiness and how to find it. When I was younger,

The typical "stay calm" when... A situation, it is overflowing... Asking for it in retrospect is sadistic, and accompanying a person to develop tolerance to certain frustrating life events is

We Talk Friday (WTF) This is a semi-regular series that I will run on Fridays to hold discussions on a current topic from the week gone. The aim is to keep them light and conversational, though some might

A sensory poem about the polluted world.

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Philosopher Stefan Molyneux talks with a caller about an older boy who violated him when he was 11, and how staying silent about it left him empty, undisciplined and sure he had no real value. JOIN ME

You can do everything right and still not get the desirable result you want in life. It is not necessarily a curse; it is simply part of human life that we have to experience as human beings. As much as

One in Five. While there are slight fluctuations either side, that is the global estimate of those who are very or fairly lonely. Young people are more likely to be lonely than older people, and those

The Act of Faith in the Cipher Every encryption is addressed. When you encrypt a message, you are not locking it in a safe without a key — you are sealing it with a key that only one intended person, or

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Visual Shot Journal: Where Rice Grows, Weeds Will Grow Too There is a saying that a single photograph can convey a multitude of philosophical meanings, just as one image can spark a thousand different

Disorder of surprise, almost always acted. They are going to ask us why the disorder caught us by surprise. And in general, one knows what the oversight was, the place where he left something open. And

I always find having a bit of perspective useful. Getting a little distance to see the whole canvas before adding more paint, or putting complicated processes into a story that connects the dots. When

The Tragedy of the Commons Today I want to talk about a concept that, if I think about it for a moment, I end up putting into practice, but one I don’t necessarily agree with to the point of considering

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux talks about the deadlocked Lindsay Clancy jury and what it means if hormones get used as an excuse for violent acts. He also covers how men and women think differently about

(The audio to these rants is posted at 4:20 EST on Substack. Or you can read it here.) Full Metal Thorsday. Welcome to one more day above ground in the Simulatrix. We are going to issue a disclaimer from

I oft wonder what kind of trauma I carry from childhood. As despite somewhat being okay now, I also know that in order to survive life to this point, I have had to push a lot of things to the side and