STOIC POETRY | Quiet remembrance of the truth
October 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I expect you discovered Stoic principles without knowing they were such, as ideas like these are natural to...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 12, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Leaves upon the sea
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...
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Kurt Bell
Oct 4, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | Life at an oasis
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...
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Kurt Bell
Sep 30, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Selecting the right picture frame
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...
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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 21, 20191 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Stoic Life
September 21, 2019 Dear Eric, Equanimity is the only reward worth pursuing - though we can never gain this treasure by pursuit, less...
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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 18, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | My first time using faith...
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...
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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
Aug 31, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Acquiring a position of faith
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
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Kurt Bell
Aug 30, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | A ripple upon the sea
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
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Kurt Bell
Aug 29, 20192 min read
STOIC POETRY | Explaining "The Pirate Ride"
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
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Kurt Bell
Aug 28, 20193 min read
STOIC POETRY | The Homunculus meets The Pirate Ride
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?
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