Going Alone

A Stoic theory of life adventure

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    STOIC POETRY | Dr. Johnson sights The Great Indifference
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 11, 2021
    • 4 min

    STOIC POETRY | Dr. Johnson sights The Great Indifference

    I am always on the lookout in my reading for evidence of others who have spotted and reported on the quality of nature which I found in...
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    STOIC POETRY | The past is in the possession of death
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 10, 2021
    • 3 min

    STOIC POETRY | The past is in the possession of death

    Death possesses us piecemeal. We are taken slowly, day by day, hour by hour, and across every minute of our life. We start dying the...
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    STOIC POETRY | When yesterdays are nevermore
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 8, 2021
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | When yesterdays are nevermore

    There is this folly, Eric, by which we wait to live until death has nearly arrived. The habit begins young, when mortality seems a...
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    STOIC POETRY | My dead companions
    Kurt Bell
    • Sep 6, 2021
    • 4 min

    STOIC POETRY | My dead companions

    I've formed a small association of companions Eric, of whom I know you would approve. Sadly, like you, they are all dead and I must...
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    STOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic Apathy
    Kurt Bell
    • Apr 28, 2020
    • 2 min

    STOIC POETRY | COVID-19 and Stoic Apathy

    The arrival of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) is an opportunity to exercise the Stoic virtue of Apathy in the face of what we cannot easily...
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    STOIC POETRY | A Stoic returning home
    Kurt Bell
    • Apr 26, 2020
    • 1 min

    STOIC POETRY | A Stoic returning home

    I might go out Into life, To see what is there, And then return in peace. Or, I might stay, Seeking peace; Wondering always... What there...
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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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