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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 | 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...

Kurt Bell
Sep 11, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | My daughter's weekend adventure
September 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My daughter had a fine adventure this past weekend. There was excitement, and fun, and a bit of danger. I could

Kurt Bell
Sep 9, 20191 min read


STOIC POETRY | Coming in from the cold
September 8, 2019 Dear Eric, I think I know why people don't want to die. It's because they know there's nothing for us after life is done.

Kurt Bell
Sep 8, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | The Social Principle
September 7, 2019 Dear Eric, I'd remain with my family and people always, if I didn't know there is - and is not - more. So, I go to see the

Kurt Bell
Sep 7, 20192 min read


STOIC POETRY | The Risk of Avoiding Risk
September 5, 2019 Dear Eric, An important principle of The Good Life is something I call The Risk of Avoiding Risk. The idea is that there

Kurt Bell
Sep 5, 20195 min read


STOIC POETRY | Teaching children to live well
September 4, 2019 Dear Eric, What is the end pursuit of virtue? And for that matter what is virtue? I define virtue as the improvement of

Kurt Bell
Sep 4, 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 | The pirate ride
August 18, 2019 Dear Eric, There’s no good reason to imagine we’re anything but atoms and molecules, and compounds and organs, and muscles

Kurt Bell
Aug 18, 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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