Tag: #existentialism
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Is ours a thankless world?
One of my daily affirmations is: “Receive with gratitude, appreciation, and admiration.” In other words, say ‘thank you’, not in a perfunctory way, but in thoughtful and heartfelt recognition of the conscious beings who provide me with the things and circumstances that make me happy. But this Thanksgiving morning, as I uttered my affirmations, I…
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To swat a fly
The convoluted irony of ‘existence’ is that we must kill in order to survive. We try to avoid that internal contradiction by demeaning and devaluing the lives of the species we exterminate and slaughter, diminishing our need to sorrow over each and every death. Thus, we absolve ourselves. But even the flies we swat are…