Author Archives: bryan

I have read multiple times, from multiple thinkers, that to study philosophy, or to philosophize, is to learn how to die. So if Philosophy is the love of, and the search for, wisdom, and if wisdom is some balance of … Continue reading →

Following is a portion of a poem I penned approximately eight years ago: My wife and kids, they think I’m weird      I find it such a treat I’m so content, enthralled, endeared       Upon that cushioned … Continue reading →

In recent weeks, I have observed multiple examples (involving various individuals), of one individual saying one thing to another individual, and then contradicting their original statement by saying something completely different to a third party. I believe this is a … Continue reading →

You! I shall cast ye out into the barren wasteland to lie forlorn and forgotten for all your remaining days. You shall gather layer upon layer of dust, and you shall never again walk the sun-dappled, fertile ground of my … Continue reading →

The Ring of Gyges, from Plato, the Republic, Book II: “They say that to do injustice is, by nature, good; to suffer injustice, evil; but that the evil is greater than the good. And so when men have both done … Continue reading →