Author Archives: Mr Nobody

Why it isn’t enough to just talk about acts of kindness without reference to any underlying ideological structure that supports it. For one, because for many people, the foundation is what produces and supports the structure. If the story is merely arbitrary, these people happened to be nice and did this nice thing isn’t thatContinue reading “Kindness as an outcome or a foundation “

There’s a reason why we should always avoid using the word “oppressors” except in dire extremes. This kind of language is the language of radical revolution. It’s an ideological weapon with a very specific purpose. And that purpose is to justify the use of force. It’s a weapon of war. That’s why it’s been usedContinue reading “Keeping a careful eye on our words”

It’s hard to guess what the next front line of post-modernism activism will be. There seems to be a general movement toward the end of discrimination, in virtually any sense. Which is problematic, since our survival and sanity depends on that ability, and efforts to erode it, positively motivated as they may be, won’t actuallyContinue reading “Where activism is going”

The mistake people make with all the little differences a peculiarities we have, the different ways of being, is that they want to label them either good or bad and then operate based on a simplified judgment of their value. They treat it like its an unknown plant that might be medicinal or poisonous andContinue reading “Seeking balance”

The other night I had to stay up a bit later than usual putting my oldest daughter to bed. I read her her story, but while I was reading she was writing something. And at the end she handed me a list of questions, which I’ll list here. 1. Is God real? 2. If heContinue reading “A daughter’s questions, a father’s answers”

I think one reason I like Fury Road is that it shows us what we could be. Yes, people can be that awful. Not only men, but men can be particularly good at it when the world has become the sort of place that favors the ruthless. Harsh conditions can make us all turn onContinue reading “Fury Road”

It’s silly to talk about life without talking about teleology. Far from being correct in dismissing it from modern thought, purpose is the single defining characteristic of life. We can obfuscate it by talking about adaptation, but it’s senseless to talk about it with out realizing we’re fundamentally talking about purpose. An adaptation is aContinue reading “Life and teleology”

Beauty, truth, and morality are all dimensions of the same experience through different aspects of the soul and its contact with reality. They are all a call to higher being. Authentic morality, art, and philosophy all seek a a connection to something higher and greater and more perfect than yourself. False religion and false artContinue reading “False religion and false art”

A while back my wife asked me where I saw myself in five years. And I confessed, jokingly, that I wasn’t sure, because most of my career plans centered around killing myself. She wasn’t super amused by it, and I blew it off, but I was actually being honest. I didn’t have any ideas orContinue reading “Fear and regrets”

The power of Teflon is in the bond between its components, of which there are only two: carbon and fluorine. It resists all other bonds, nothing can stick to it, because the bond between its two components is so strong. They form a polymer where the carbon chain provides the backbone and the fluorine atomsContinue reading “Teflon relationships”

What is love? And in what sense does our society worship it, and in what sense does it hate it? Love is an almost terrifying admission of weakness. It’s an admission that we lack something, that it’s not good for us to be alone. It’s an admission that the other person has something we need.Continue reading “What is love?”

One odd side effect of the slow drift within our culture toward a more socialistic ethic in our society is that, morally, we have shifted away from a more intrusive, personal individualistic morality toward a socialized “shunning” moral culture. Because morality is coming more and more to exist out there, not in here, in effects,Continue reading “The shift toward collectivism “

The substance of virtue and the feeling of virtue are quite different things. One is easy to get, one hard. One is public, the other private. One is bought with denial of the self, the other reaffirms the self. One is inflicted on ourselves and builds our strength, the other is inflicted on others andContinue reading “The substance of virtue vs the feeling of virtue”

I’ve had three special moments in my life, unique moments of transcendent realization that lifted me above the clouds of thought and individual limitation for just a moment and gave me a prophetic view across history. Unfortunately, describing what I saw in thoae moments is rather difficult. The nature of such revelations is that theyContinue reading “An oracle, in three moments of revelation”

The women who exemplified what you want in a wife (a girl like dear old mom). My mom My mom’s mom Samantha from Bewitched Bonnie Hunt Harriet Vane from Dorothy L Sayers mysteries (someday I hope I’ll find someone as complex and difficult as that!) My early ideals of romantic beauty and awakening erotic interest.Continue reading “My early feminine/spousal ideals”

If you can see or aren’t willing to face the potential pitfalls and dangers of the ideology you wield, then it’s possible that you don’t really understand it, and likely that you shouldn’t be wielding it. Unless you’re familiar with your own inner monster and can recognize the danger it poses, you’re not a safeContinue reading “The shadow”