If you were to find out that something was untrue, but it would still advance your cause (which no doubt you believe to be a good one), is it virtuous to still spread this untruth? As truthfulness itself is a virtue, the answer to this is simple. It should be a resounding NO. Yet there … Continue reading Truth is Virtuous
Throughout a very mentally taxing day of learning new and important things, the hippocampus becomes overtaxed, as it acts as a short-term memory reservoir. This can make one feel exhausted. During deep NREM sleep, a wave of electrical activity in the brain provides a path between the hippocampus and the cortex, which is the place … Continue reading The Memory Nap
With my recent quad rupture injury and subsequent surgery, I have found that my philosophy has been put to the test. Several times, my thoughts have wandered back to that moment when it happened. I begin to think about any number of alternative methods of moving a freezer and how all of them wouldn't have … Continue reading Put to the Test
A few months after the pandemic hit America I began to see many jokes and memes and feel a general sentiment from friends and family about how much 2020 sucked. While indulging friends while they did this, I never really got on board. With a shoulder surgery in January to fix a shoulder that continued … Continue reading Gratefulness for 2020
On Thursday last week, I was moving a very heavy deep freezer which had been converted into a kegerator out of my house. It slipped from my left hand, and in the split second that followed, my life has changed quite a bit. In that split second, I lifted my left leg quickly in an … Continue reading Amor Fati
