Going Alone

A Stoic theory of life adventure

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    STOIC POETRY | Ad Aster and The Great Indifference
    Kurt Bell
    • Jul 7, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Ad Aster and The Great Indifference

    Yumiko and I watched a movie last night called Ad Aster, starring Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones. We enjoyed the film, which is a science...
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    STOIC POETRY | Editing the new book
    Kurt Bell
    • May 2, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | Editing the new book

    Work on the new book is progressing slower now, since the arrival of COVID-19 and the shutdown of so much of our society's day-to-day...
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    STOIC POETRY | A plan of life and death
    Kurt Bell
    • Oct 19, 2019
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | A plan of life and death

    October 19, 2019 Dear Eric, I write these words now almost twenty years to the day since I completed my story of you and Joe-Bob, sharing...
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    STOIC POETRY | Making something of nothing
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 11, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Making something of nothing

    September 11, 2019 Dear Eric, Nihilism's bad rap may stem from the idea's consequent necessity of doing something about it. As...
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    STOIC POETRY | Destroyer of worlds
    Kurt Bell
    • Aug 17, 2019
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | Destroyer of worlds

    August 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I made something since you became done. We never once spoke of this thing during our talks at college, as I think
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    Going Alone was begun by Kurt Bell in an effort to help others understand and manage  the recognition of the apparent indifference of the universe to our well being, happiness or even our existence, and to find ways to make a good life in spite of this fact.

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