Going Alone

September 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I remember the person you once were. I wonder if you would have remained that person always if you'd lived...

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...

September 18, 2019 Dear Eric, I weaponized faith for the first time yesterday. Well, maybe that's too strong a word. But that's how it...

September 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I entertained myself while shaving this morning by imagining Henry David Thoreau visiting Siberia ghost...

September 16, 2019 Dear Eric, The distance between me now, here at home by the sea, and Siberia, is about 200 miles. However, the...

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....

September 14, 2019 Dear Eric, There's great satisfaction in success. But only if that success resonates deep and echos back to our ears...

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...

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...

September 11, 2019 Dear Eric, Nihilism's bad rap may stem from the idea's consequent necessity of doing something about it. As...

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

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

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.

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

September 6, 2019 Dear Eric, I’m typing you this note with some difficulty from a tent in the deep desert. There's just one-bar of...

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

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

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

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

September 1, 2019 Dear Eric, I'm currently reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamozov. It's a big book. A very big book! I'm now