[3000 words] If you don't get what you want, you get sad. If you consistently don't get what you want, you get depressed. Depression is a sort of hibernation of the soul. When physical winter makes the food scarce, certain animals hibernate their bodies. When psycho-social-spiritual winter makes enjoyment scarce, we humans hibernate our minds. …
[200 words] Some people still seem to be worrying about overpopulation. Here are the solutions. Understanding them will help you stop worrying. Women's access to education When you improve women's access to education, the birth rate plummets. Birth rates have plummeted in all industrialized countries. It's why they've had to import people to keep the …
[150 words] It's very simple. You understand what's going on, right? It's the other guy that's an idiot. Well then. How do you talk to someone who doesn't understand something as well as you do? Well, what's the classic example of someone who doesn't understand things very well? I'll just tell you -- it's a …
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[500 words] Two months ago, I wanted this. What I want now is to act as a conduit. I want young people who are called by the spiritual path to become aware of me, and I want to tell them: It's OK! You can do totally do that! If you feel that calling, go! Forget …
[1000 words] It's all very simple, really. I'm sure you would all understand it just fine, if you were to permit yourself to think on it calmly. First off, the biology. The story goes that the point of life is to survive long enough to pass on our genetic code. When you mate with someone …
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[300 words] Depends on your taste. If you feel that just hoping someone dies, no matter the circumstances, is morally wrong... then no, it's not OK. But if you feel anything less extreme than that -- then yeah, it's fine. First off, it's natural. If something exists which goes against your values or interests, your …
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[300 words] Mysticism will always be a couple of steps ahead of science. By science, I mean natural science, but I also mean it literally: scientia means "knowing". This is true of any kind of knowing, really -- but physics and psychology are probably the two most relevant. (The world and the mind are, after …
[2700 words] The word "school" comes from the Ancient Greek "σχολή" (skholḗ), and it means “spare time, leisure; conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”. That's all a school really is. A place where people can freely converse. Those who are interested in conversations which …
[600 words] People keep giving me grief about the fact I keep insisting on using the word "God" where they'd prefer to hear "the Universe" or something. There's an endless litany of reasons for that, which I'll get into later. For now, I'll say it's specifically because you are all ragingly anti-Semitic and you need …
[500 words] I listened attentively to this 5-part lecture series by Alex Wynne almost exactly two years ago. I'm probably going to revisit it now that I've learned a lot more about the subject matter, but before I do, I'm going to sum it up from memory. The Buddha had several disciples. Ānanda is the …
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