Category Archives: Metaphysics

A Brief Explanation of Everything. You’re Welcome.

Posted on February 8, 2020 by

Doubtless the most interesting species in the “actual” universe is the Lilatian/s, who are many and one. I’ll use the plural to refer to them going forward, but be aware that this is a mere convention for ease of readability. … Continue reading →

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Using Derrida, from Notes to Krystalina

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

This is from a book-length work that I’ve been working on for many years. 2.1 Every actor has had The Actor’s Nightmare. You find yourself on stage, with a set and properties and another actor, but you haven’t any memory … Continue reading →

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A Solution to the Fermi Paradox

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

The current NASA estimate is that there are 19,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars in the observable universe that are Class G stars like ours AND that have at least one planet similar to Earth. That’s at least 19 SEXTILLION Earthlike planets, folks. No, … Continue reading →

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Existentialism in Five Minutes | Bob Shepherd

Posted on March 18, 2019 by

Philosophy has never been, except in a few rare times and places, particularly fashionable. One of those exceptions was the Existentialism craze that swept Europe and the Americas in the middle of the last century. When its foremost proponent, Jean-Paul … Continue reading →

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The Theology of Materialism

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

In 1996, the Catholic Church finally officially admitted that it had made a mistake in trying and convicting Galileo. It only took them 363 years to do so. It’s difficult for people to make adjustments in their theologies. In the … Continue reading →

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The Initiation, or What Dana Did on Her Summer Vacation | A Short Story

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

The following is a short story I wrote about the Eleusinian Mysteries–a nine-day festival and initiation into the cult of the Earth goddess, Demeter. What happened during the initiation was the best-kept secret of ancient Greece. People were forbidden, under … Continue reading →

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Three Meanings of “Meaning”

Posted on March 17, 2019 by

I just saw a dumb article in Quartz claiming that as science has revealed to us a mechanistic universe (and a view of the human brain as mechanism), we’ve come to face a new kind of “existential crisis” as we … Continue reading →

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