Many times in life you come to a crossroad. A time and place to reflect, consider, and decide. Many of these crossroads have multiple directions, and are not simple this way or that way binary choices. Sometimes the path you take is one way, and there's no going back. Other times you might luck out and be able to go back to the crossroad and take a different path. Regardless, the path to happiness is one with many choices. Happiness is a choice, or a result of choices and careful reflection. We can only live each day on its own [READ MORE]

On Free Will. The idea of determinism vs free will is an ancient, yet pointless debate based on a false dilemma. It’s a fallacy. I also think it's a useless waste of time to debate anything that likely will never have conclusive evidence which can prove or disprove it one way or the other empirically. “Either we have free will or we don't”, is a false dilemma because of relativity, time and space, cause and effect. It can be both and neither simultaneously. It doesn't have to be one or the other. Humans have a tendency to think in terms [READ MORE]

Again...Facebook "glitches" conveniently when I'm commenting/posting a critique of a sensitive topic. It almost never glitches when I'm typing massive, long explainer posts that take me an hour to write. (and I post A LOT) It's ALWAYS when I'm criticizing a sensitive topic like racism, religion, xenophobia, etc. It's almost as if Facebook developers are deliberately censoring posts and blaming it on a technical issue with an error message popup. I'd believe it was a genuine bug in the site code IF and ONLY IF the "glitch" didn't consistently happen on sensitive and controversial topics. I know enough about how [READ MORE]

I hate this greedy society we live in. Hate is not a strong enough word to describe the disdain I feel regarding the level of greed and ignorance of this society that we're forced to live in. My tolerance for it is gone. But yeah, it doesn't matter because I'm just some dumb schmuck that doesn't matter any more than anyone else who doesn't have money. I'm merely a peon in a peonage among other peons with no power. It's depressing how fucked up the world is, or rather, more correctly, how fucked up the monetary system is. The world [READ MORE]

THE ARGUMENT FOR FOR-PROFIT CHARITY by Eric Wichman Let me explain something that at first seems counterintuitive and selfish and greedy, but the more you look at it and understand it, the more it makes sense. Even the phrase "for-profit charity" sounds like it's fake, like it's a scam or at the least, it sounds as if there's some sinister ulterior motive. But it only sounds this way if you lack understanding of how money works. Understand that everything has a cost. Whether the cost is time, labor, or money, there is a cost to any given thing in a [READ MORE]