Captian's Log Without Form and Void | A Response 3 Nov 202531 Oct 2025 I remember an old, atheist joke: "When one person hears a voice, that's schizophrenia, but when everybody hears a voice, it's religion." I'm tempted to reply, if everyone can hear…
Captian's Log Pilgrims Passing in the Mist 22 Mar 202521 Mar 2025 The weary pilgrims' parade of faded and tattered banners, their worn habiliments of time weathered hues scalloped by the road's grasping thorns, nears the end of its ageless journey. The…
Captian's Log The Mystery of Glass 8 Mar 20251 Mar 2025 Tired and worn out by inescapable dreams, wandering down streets without names through a city without light, and drawn, ever drawn, to take that next, unintelligible step forward. It is…
Captian's Log September 11th, 2024: Lost the Meaning 11 Sep 20247 Sep 2024 Well, it's September 11th again, and an election season. I find I have a hard time knowing what to say. We mourn a tragedy that has lost any cohesive story…
Captian's Log Semantics in Babel 30 Aug 2022 One of the pieces of evidence I might proffer as to why we live in Babel is that semantics is a derogatory term, is treated as a fallacy, so that…
Captian's Log The Meaning of Life 27 Jan 202027 Jan 2020 It seems inevitable to me that life has a purpose, for if it had none, if our lives were meaningless, then we should have no reason to want meaning, for…
Captian's Log Re: The Four Noble Truths 17 Oct 201917 Oct 2019 Explanation: The first Noble Truth expresses Dukkha, the unfulfilling nature of existence. It is then postulated that Dukkha arises out of thirst: The desire for sensual pleasures, the desire for…
Captian's Log Evil Thoughts 29 Aug 2019 I went to something called a chapel today. There was no God there. The voice inside my head began to scream: You use words like a parasite uses its host.…
Captian's Log Short Poem: Struggle 28 Aug 2019 The thoughts inside my head will not come out, and struggling for life they force my shout. For them I rasp, for them I groan; they make me speak until…
Captian's Log The Worth of a Man 8 Jun 2019 Considering worth, there seems to be two types: There is a worth of things regarding use, that is, a tool’s usefulness and worth are the same, and there is a…
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