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STOIC POETRY | The problem of evil
September 19, 2019 Dear Eric, Why would God create a universe with evil? "I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create...

Kurt Bell
Sep 19, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Henry David Thoreau visits Siberia Ghost Town
September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...

Kurt Bell
Sep 17, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | The view from outer-space
September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...

Kurt Bell
Sep 16, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Live afraid, die afraid
September 15, 2019 Dear Eric, Were you very afraid before you died? You knew it was coming. I'd tried to talk you out of it weeks before....

Kurt Bell
Sep 15, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Softypapa's last video
September 13, 2019 Dear Eric, I was so tempted yesterday to title my latest YouTube upload Softypapa's last video. This is due to the...

Kurt Bell
Sep 13, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | I always want to turn back
September 12, 2019 Dear Eric, Every time... Every. Single. Time... Every time I go to the desert, or to the mountains, or to the sea, I...

Kurt Bell
Sep 12, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | The pursuit of virtue
September 10, 2019 Dear Eric, You and I never got around to discussing the concept of nihilism; the idea that life is essentially devoid of

Kurt Bell
Sep 10, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | To die in doubt
September 3, 2019 Dear Eric, Can you imagine how much less my confidence now, than when we once conferred together on so many subjects of

Kurt Bell
Sep 3, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | Agent in a vacuum
September 2, 2019 Dear Eric, How much vacuum - if any - is necessary to discover free will? How much of the "substrate" of the universe

Kurt Bell
Sep 2, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Seeking to forget
August 25, 2019 Dear Eric, Yesterday was Saturday. And the pool where I live - a very nice pool, more like a resort, really - was lively w

Kurt Bell
Aug 25, 20193 min read


STOIC POETRY | Yesterday’s long desert sojourn was a new experience of indifference
Upon further investigation I keep discovering that the cold depth of nature goes further and deeper than I'd ever thought.

Kurt Bell
Jul 6, 20191 min read


STOIC POETRY | I fear no social circumstance...
I fear no social circumstance
For I've been to Mt. Wildness

Kurt Bell
Jun 30, 20191 min read
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