Sweet memory Of an ordinary rainy day. Got off work Stepped into a bus. Clear, peaceful, alone. Rain pelted my ride Through empty neighborhoods Of big trees and good people. My few years still Light as the clouds. But old enough to know It’s just me and the world, Forever just me And my being [...]

Don’t meditate to calm yourself. Meditate to push against the membrane that encloses you. It is not conceivable to me that anyone will have any success breaking through it. But I encourage you to close your eyes and try until your mind is reduced to an exhausted lump of flesh. (It might be a good [...]

Life is a law of our universe, like the mathematical, physical and chemical laws. When conditions are right, stars explode into supernovae. When conditions are right, stuff organizes itself into life. The gap between animate and inanimate came pre-bridged. Obligatory Carl Sagan quote: “We’ve begun at last to wonder about our origins, star stuff contemplating [...]

In discussions on the meaning of existence, it is often said that we do not know what we live for, but it’s a good idea to live well. I agree with that statement, but it also makes me mad to hear it in the context of existential inquiry. Prescriptions for living have no importance in [...]

Don’t be afraid of having a closed mind, being a hypocrite or contradicting yourself. You don’t have to be patriotic. You must not do evil. After the age of 30, don’t yammer in subjective discussions to which there will obviously be no resolution due to your intervention. Always remember that you would be a savage [...]

When a person says “I believe in God,” he is really saying “Neither I nor anyone else I know of can make sense of existence.” Let’s say you don’t know squat about nuclear physics and you are asked to give a lecture on it. You go up on stage and say “Nuclear physics is a [...]

I really should have titled this “Why Live?” If you have tasted existence as I described it, death is no great calamity to you. Don’t let this lead you into the mistake of hastening your death. Staying alive is a sound strategic move. (Ignore any arguments for staying alive based on the claim that staying [...]

Finally, A poem about Things being, Rather than being A certain way. I hope you Enjoyed it.

The desire to observe oneself from an out-of-body perspective is latent in most people, but once aroused, can be an extremely powerful one, to the point where the person excited with this thought might want to tear his flesh out or claw at his eyes as a result of frustration at not being able to [...]

One day the front page of the newspaper is filled with reports of the most ordinary events in the lives of the most ordinary people, completely devoid of fame or far-reaching importance. Occurrences of minor happiness around the city are reported. Individual appreciation of the great weather is written about. Spontaneous smiles are covered. Pride [...]