Category: Philosophy & Musings
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Musings
In the scope of an argument, attacking the position—and not the person—makes for better people. Especially as it becomes more and more heated, and attacking the person becomes incredibly tempting.
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Failures and victories are valuable feedback; they’re avenues through which the world mirrors our faults and clarities back to our perception. They can also be traps, if they’re taken as excuses to wallow in arrogance or self-pity.
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When I can face “the bad” with levelheaded objectivity, any craving for “the good” fades away, and I can navigate both with clear attention. Enjoyment, even. Ironically, at that point, it’s ALL good.
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I think the most valuable luxury—the one that carries us through high and low times alike—is to experience tangible meaning through our actions. It naturally follows that being able to create meaning for ourselves is something of a superpower. I think that’s why creativity, clear perception, discipline, audacity, etc. etc. are emphasized throughout narratives/philosophies/religions—because all…
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Whether it’s from biological design or metaphysical decree doesn’t matter; certain commonalities seem to bring us together. And those ill-defined truths are what a writer tries to evoke, through an artful lie we like to call fiction.
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I used to run from the “mundane.” But when I grew older and realized that the very idea of a big expansion where time and space became instantiated into a seemingly consistent set of causalities which give me clues as to what I should do with my objectively short life… I saw that the concept…
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I’ve heard a lot of artistic types pooh-pooh the idea of logic. I’m always confused by this; firstly, I’ve never met any of these nay-sayers that can provide me with a working definition of logic, and secondly, the correct employment of logic is often a necessary stepping stone—an intermediary that leads the audience into a…
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When I stop depending on discipline and strategy (of which I believe intuition is a subordinate tool), then I have decided instead to depend on luck. No thanks.
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Right now I sit before a seemingly mundane, letter-marked interface. It’s capable of forming my thoughts into wonder-filled realms, pearls of wisdom, and even weapons if I’m so inclined. This seemingly mundane, letter-marked interface….it would be a waste not to use it.
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Musings
Desire, Ego, and [all things “negative”] are often vilified as mortal enemies. But from a macroscopic view, they’re natural phenomena arising from our limited states of being. If left unchecked, they can certainly inflict harm, but I believe that everything have its place. Not only that, I believe everything has its USE, depending on whether…
Kent Wayne 