“They will tell you you’re useless, if they can’t use you.” Marty Rubin Society as one knows it has become more reliant on being productive in every waking moment of a person’s life. People in many countries literally work themselves to death for entities that could replace them once they’ve outlived their usefulness to theContinue reading “The Art of the Useless: Lightening your Workload in Life”
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Ethics vs Laws: Doing the Right Thing in Times of Wrong
What happens when the law conflicts with your morals?
Clown World: 3 Quotes to Survive in Chaos
Surviving in chaos is a necessary requirement to build a better life.
The Four Masculine Virtues: A Discussion on Manhood as a Philosophy
“Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.” — Edwin Louis Cole
The Spirit of Liberty: 3 Quotes of Freedom
“No one outside ourselves can rule us inwardly. When we know this, we become free.” Buddha
“My Bad”: 3 Quotes on Holding Oneself Accountable
When was the last time you blamed yourself and took responsibility?
Virtue vs. Vice: Then and Now
“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.”
-Epictetus
Kindness Despite Disagreement
“Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil. … I can neither be injured by any of them, for no one can fix on me what is ugly, nor can I be angry with my kinsman, nor hate him.” -Marcus Aurelius
Self Discipline in a Consumer Culture
In a world of empty consumerism, self discipline may give your life meaning beyond consumption.
Respect vs Censorship
When morals no longer exist, people cling to government and censorship for solutions.