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Saturday Meditations No. 1
1. Life is easy, get really good at a skill, get out in the world and socialise with people and above all, try to only spend a minority of your time in isolation. Man is a sociable being, and remember that ostracism is one of the cruellest punishments that can be inflicted upon someone. Make…
Studying courage doesn’t make you courageous
I love reading books by doers; that’s why I love reading books like Meditations by the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, and it’s why I also like to read Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, who was one of the wealthiest and most erudite people in ancient Rome. A few years ago, I used to read…
Is it irrational to believe in God?
No, absolutely not. What is irrational is to not believe in God. Because for millennia, humans have believed in god and we all have the need to believe in something. Religion (and I can only speak for Christianity) provides a teleological end for our lives, that is to say, a meaning. Teleological comes from the…
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