by admin | Nov 13, 2019 | Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Poverty, Star Trek
Nearly 40 years ago, when I was an adolescent running around in as much of a hormone haze as I now am surrounded by the Fog of Idealism, I was as madly in love as a boy could be with a girl whose intellect and compassion I admired nearly as much as her physical form....
by admin | Aug 5, 2019 | Empathy, Essay, Humanity, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics
You can’t change the world; only your corner of it.”– My father, Alan Eder, quoting my grandpa, Enno Schuelke, September 12, 2001 “We’re on track for a million illegal aliens to rush our borders. People hate the word ‘invasion’ but that’s what it is. It’s...
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Autobiography, Essay, Existentialism, Nonfiction, Philosophy
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world – and defines himself afterwards… Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism I wrote an essay recently about being...
by admin | May 21, 2019 | Death, Empathy, Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Star Trek
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy.” Hamlet Act 1, Scene 5 Yesterday, not for anything close to the first time, I should have died. I woke up to find a strange woman standing over me while I was lying in bed. She...
by admin | Apr 29, 2019 | Empathy, Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Selfishness
“Don’t say that, Governor. Don’t look at it that way. What am I, Governors both? I ask you, what am I? I’m one of the undeserving poor: that’s what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he’s up agen middle class morality...
by admin | Apr 16, 2019 | Death, Essay, Nonfiction, Philosophy
I don’t fear Death. To be clear, I make no claims to being a brave man. I don’t believe I am. I have a deep fear of pain, and people scare the hell out of me. But Death… not so much. I don’t believe this means there’s anything wrong with...
