STOIC POETRY | Holding our breath
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...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 23, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life in the open
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...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 22, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Wide margins
September 22, 2019 Dear Eric, How wide were the margins of your life? Not wide enough, I'd guess, given the fact that you left absolutely...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 20, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Becoming the person you are
September 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I remember the person you once were. I wonder if you would have remained that person always if you'd lived...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 19, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The problem of evil
September 19, 2019 Dear Eric, Why would God create a universe with evil? "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 17, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Henry David Thoreau visits Siberia Ghost Town
September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 16, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The view from outer-space
September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Softypapa's last video
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...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 12, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | I always want to turn back
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...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | The pursuit of virtue
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
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Kurt Bell
Sep 6, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | A note from adventure
September 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I’m typing you this note with some difficulty from a tent in the deep desert. There's just one-bar of...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 4, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Teaching children to live well
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
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Kurt Bell
Sep 2, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Agent in a vacuum
September 2, 2019 Dear Eric, How much vacuum - if any - is necessary to discover free will? How much of the "substrate" of the universe
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Kurt Bell
Aug 18, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The pirate ride
August 18, 2019 Dear Eric, There’s no good reason to imagine we’re anything but atoms and molecules, and compounds and organs, and muscles
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Kurt Bell
Jun 29, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | "Poor fortune borne well...
...is good fortune." -Marcus Aurelius I've struggled a bit lately with maintaining my balance through life. It's not a deep issue or...
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