Going Alone

September 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Every time... Every. Single. Time... Every time I go to the desert, or to the mountains, or to the sea, I...

September 11, 2019 Dear Eric, Nihilism's bad rap may stem from the idea's consequent necessity of doing something about it. As...

September 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You and I never got around to discussing the concept of nihilism; the idea that life is essentially devoid of

September 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My daughter had a fine adventure this past weekend. There was excitement, and fun, and a bit of danger. I could

September 8, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I know why people don't want to die. It's because they know there's nothing for us after life is done.

September 7, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd remain with my family and people always, if I didn't know there is - and is not - more. So, I go to see the

September 5, 2019 Dear Eric, An important principle of The Good Life is something I call The Risk of Avoiding Risk. The idea is that there

September 4, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the end pursuit of virtue? And for that matter what is virtue? I define virtue as the improvement of

September 3, 2019 Dear Eric, Can you imagine how much less my confidence now, than when we once conferred together on so many subjects of

September 2, 2019 Dear Eric, How much vacuum - if any - is necessary to discover free will? How much of the "substrate" of the universe

September 1, 2019 Dear Eric, I'm currently reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov. It's a big book. A very big book! I'm now

August 31, 2019 Eric, You're not going to believe this... But I've become one of the faithful. Yup. It happened yesterday, about an hour

August 30, 2019 Dear Eric, I've written to you a few times on the subject of free will - or rather, my perceived lack thereof. I've a thou

August 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Let me try to explain The Good Life principle I call "The Pirate Ride." Imagine yourself on an amusement park att

August 28, 2019 Dear Eric, So, if we don't have free will, then what do we make of this parade of a seemingly free and willful life?

August 27, 2019 Dear Eric, I've completed - and am uploading now (link below) - the final video in the Freeway Bible Study series.

August 26, 2019 Dear Eric, My suspicion that free will is an illusion is a curious specimen. You know how I don't like resting my hat on i

August 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Yesterday was Saturday. And the pool where I live - a very nice pool, more like a resort, really - was lively w

August 24, 2019 Dear Eric, I was away for a few days this week moving. My family and I have at last truly, finally arrived in America.

August 20, 2019 Eric, I described yesterday how I've become an anti-theist and what that means in terms of my decision to take on the burden