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Art and Recognition

I often see beloved and skilled artists in all media (paint, film, music, etc.) give up due to lack of recognition, and I often hear artists telling their fan bases that they continue creating because...

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Mao is Like Life

I just learned to play a new card game called Mao (presumably after the chairman). This particular game’s rules change every time you play it and only one player knows all the of rules at the...

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Primary Concern

Many philosophical theories postulate the every human being has a primary or ultimate concern, something that they value above everything else. In this context “concern” and “value” have roughly the...

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Everything is a Story

I have recently received a very brief introduction to the Japanese idea of Otaku which (to my understanding) is the practice of fanatical cultural collection outside the narratives of whatever it is...

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Troubles With Diverse Interests

Most of the popular bloggers I know seem to have a very refined message or theme (i.e. unschooling, writing, or entrepreneurship) and one issue I have run into with this blog is that my life is not...

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Evolving Thoughts On Meaning

Over the year, my opinions on the meaning of life have changed slightly. For a long time now, I have considered the root of life’s meaning to be happiness yet now I think this may be a flawed goal...

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The Same Question

As I continue to study and evolve my personal philosophy, I have come across a bit of a realization and I thought I’d share it here today. You see, every pursuit of human knowledge basically aims to...

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A Child

Inside each of us is a child and within that child lives our greatest fears and deepest joys. The child is our ability to be goofy and have fun  and also our ability to act out in anger or confusion....

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What’s The Point

Philosophy is not necessarily a search for meaning. Rather, to philosophize is to merely question the nature of the world and how we are able to perceive it. In a way philosophy is nothing more than an...

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Questions

I believe as a species with a certain level of intellect we live our lives in a quest to answer questions and the answers we seek largely affect what our lives become. Because of the definitive nature...

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