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Jarod Cerf posted On the Great Job Hunt... | 3 days ago
I've put some thought into it and here's what I've come up with: At core, I want to, and to some degree need to, work at something I believe in; this is different from making myself believe in what I'm doing, which is more a function of practicality than necessity. I can convince myself that doing a...
Koios posted Understanding Suffering | Jul 20, 2008
I recently bought a book called The Book of Life by Jiddu Krishnamurti. This book has a meditation for every single day of the year. When reading the ones for July, I found some that really grabbed me. This one is titled Understanding Suffering. Why do we inquire, "what is happiness?" Is that the...
Koios posted Kierkegaard's Truth | Jul 19, 2008
Kierkegaard is usually considered to be the founding father of existentialism. Considering that most existentialists are atheists, it is kind of ironic to think that the founding father of existentialism was a theist. Not only was he a theist, but he was also an extremely religious Christian--so...
Koios posted Cheerful Despair | Jul 5, 2008
I often use terms that seem to really bother people: nothingness, chaos, suffering, meaninglessness, despair, etc. Why do these terms, which are so embedded in my philosophy, bother people so much? Well, most people seem to thing that there is something as opposed to nothing: God created everything...
