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The Existence Of Evil
My philosophical tendencies began in high school, when I realized the extent of life’s flaws. Why does evil exist, I wondered while wandering the halls between algebra and physical science class. Evil...
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Another Ironic Poem
UNTITLED ANGRY PIECE I shadowbox the truth begging for a fight high on inferiority we take our places all made up for the show every word matters flung from my soul abstract boomerangs never returned...
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A Grand Old Party
MITT ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT I see myself in you dying for release histories to debunk myths we tell ourselves about ourselves we’re out of our minds exchanging information before we crash the TV...
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Spiritual Thoughts
The next time you’re stuck at a red light at a busy intersection consider the uniqueness of the moment. Look to your left, to the right, ahead of you and behind. You will never reach this red light...
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A Healthy Argument
I remember returning to my hospital room in the dark one night in full-blown Woe Is Me mode. What had I done wrong? Why this illness? Why was I stuck here? Desperate for answers, I took God to task. My...
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Pebble Poem
BLASPHEMY My life is a word on the tip of God’s tongue. I take my father’s name in vain. There’s no reason for my being here beyond expression. My life is a thought ahead of its time each moment...
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Caller ID
You know the feeling: you’re drifting off to sleep, easing into a dream. The phone rings. You’re awake. ~ ~ ~ Life is your inability to continue the dream. ~ ~ ~ If God had proposed the idea of my life...
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Beyond Belief
I lack the strength to fully accept or reject the existence of God. I can’t identify with hardline atheists who know beyond a doubt there is no God. Duped by the almighty power of reason, non-believers...
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Letting God Have It
Life is full of challenges, stressors, disappointments. What if I could leave everything—my depression and anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, unfulfilled wishes, guilt over hurting loved ones—in God’s...
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The Secret Time Won’t Tell
I’ve written many times about our inability to know the world, to understand and tame its restless energies. Often in this thought I’ve assumed a pessimistic tone, arguing that trying to know anything...
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Destined To Be Free
“We do not know what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are.” –Sartre “Freedom of choice Is what you’ve got Freedom from choice Is what you want” —Devo A brief sketch of Sartre’s basic...
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Ghost In The Machine
Baudrillard: “God, who was once present, but also absent, from all things, now circulates in the arterial network of computers.” Amazon: “Alexa—the brain behind Echo—is built in the cloud, so it is...
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The Nine Billion Names Of God
In The Perfect Crime Jean Baudrillard references Arthur C. Clarke’s short story “The Nine Billion Names of God” to set up his critique of virtual reality and our desire to actualize the world in its...
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To Infinity And Beyond
Religion and science have at least one thing in common: People from both fields theorize (hope for?) the end of the world. Many Christians believe in the Rapture. The world as we know it, full of...
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Dream Within A Dream
A sudden thought: what if throughout my adult life I continue to repeat childhood traumas? Is every day, every relationship, an unconscious re-creation of events over which I had little control? Maybe...
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The Trouble With Being Born
From Richard Howard’s 1976 translation of E.M. Cioran’s The Trouble with Being Born: Tsimtsum. This silly-sounding word designates a major concept of the Cabbala. For the world to exist, God, who was...
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Great Scott
Last week I played Scrabble with my mom. We each picked a letter to determine who’d start the board. She got an “A.” I picked an “O,” which meant she’d go first. “Hey, that’s like A.O. Scott, the film...
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The Spirit Of Melancholy
I took away three main ideas from Alina N. Feld’s brilliant analysis of depression in Melancholy and the Otherness of God. First, philosophers from Ancient Greece to modern times have seen the...
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The Thirst For Life Itself
Not long ago I was asked in therapy to consider my purpose. I thought for a moment, careful to select my words. My purpose, simply put, is threefold: To love and be loved To be present for others To...
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LOL
Laugh Out Loud 1 digitized and downsized we are the binary selves some switches on some switches off we’re smart shoppers cyber bullies all God’s children of divorce the cement truck of concrete...
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