Going Alone

October 8, 2019 Dear Eric, And what of the fearful things of this world...? You knew some of these, and yet you fell at the first major...

October 7, 2019 Dear Eric, Every genuine adventure ends in a new life. How many lives can be lived in a lifetime? One is enough...as long...

October 4, 2019 Dear Eric, Do we borrow from tomorrow when we live in an imagined better day? Maybe not. Perhaps this is how we make way...

October 1, 2019 Dear Eric, Good and evil never crossed our minds; and we certainly never attempted to define these concepts or what...

September 29, 2019 Dear Eric, Your gaze never once appeared to waver. Was this due to your youth? Was that it? Was it the strength and...

September 27, 2019 Dear Eric, It's too bad our talks together never explored the issue of morality and justice... As I would have enjoyed...

September 26, 2019 Dear Eric, You, my friend, were one wont to emotion. Though normally you were riding high atop the joyful bubble of...

September 25, 2019 Dear Eric, How did you engage your mind during those final minutes of life before the lights went out for good? You...

September 23, 2019 Dear Eric, You were never one to hide... But then you were so young you perhaps had little idea what there was to hide...

September 21, 2019 Dear Eric, Equanimity is the only reward worth pursuing - though we can never gain this treasure by pursuit, less...

September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...

September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...

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 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

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