Going Alone

October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...

October 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Would you ever have not taken your own life? Though I do not believe in fate, I'm convinced you had no real...

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...

September 30, 2019 Dear Eric Looking back now from the vantage point of three-decades, I can see that we both lived and portrayed lives...

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 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...

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

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...

September 18, 2019 Dear Eric, I weaponized faith for the first time yesterday. Well, maybe that's too strong a word. But that's how it...

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...

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?