This I Believe

A collection of my favorite blog posts, and what they mean to me. This I believe.

1/27/11 - Relatively Real. Does life exist in realism, or relativism? In my eyes, nothing is absolute, including that statement. (I've said that somewhere before on here...)

2/22/11 - The Problem of Physical Evil. Can (a) God and evil coexist? I used to care about this, and now, in my antitheist days, this hypothetical matters much less to me.

There's more to it
3/6/11 - Togetherness. Apparently, I once believed there is good in everyone. I still believe this. There's more to everyone than what they show us.

7/28/12 - Hazard lights. You never know what the other people on the highway are going through.

3/31/11 - An ironic non-existentialist view on existentialism. Quite possible my favorite quote of all time by Jean-Paul Sartre..."life is nothing until it is lived, but it is yours to make sense of; the value of life is nothing other than the sense you choose."

5/9/11 - The meaning of life. End-of-year post number one.

Life existing on other planets
6/7/11 - Self-philosophy. Scratching the surface of life existing on other planets, with a mathematical explanation. Either life other than us exists, or we don't exist.

7/23/11 - If you don't believe in life on other planets... Honestly didn't know I wrote this post.

11/19/11 - Values Game #5. Added no new information to my beliefs in this post.

Time, multiverses, and how any of this works
3/19/11 - Time. I talked about time frequently on my blog, and now, I view it as a construct that doesn't mean anything at face value. I'll probably find a better post about time to put here.

7/24/11 - Straight in a straight line. I had this phase of using OneRepublic lyrics as post titles. More importantly, this is my first endeavor into the idea of the multiverse. We're on one straight line, unable to change course. (That sounds very pre-deterministic of me...)

8/18/12 - The Moment. More along the idea of everything being part of the process.


11/24/11 - High school Tardiff. Appreciate life, appreciative what you have, and cherish the fuck out of what makes you happy.

12/14/11 - The Journey. It's about always having your voice as you stride deeper and deeper into the world.

12/28/11 - Self-reflection. The first hint of learning about ourselves being my favorite thing in life. It's still true, all these years later.

1/9/12 - Brand New Day. When you're stuck, the only wrong thing is to do nothing.

4/19/12 - What diversity means to me. Diversity of ideas is far more important than superficial and physical diversity (although it's certainly important to recognize the position in which others are coming from (thank you, Stuart Kane)).

7/10/12 - 568 days, 218 rooms: Part 2. I already tried this exercise once before.

8/6/12 - What do you go home to?. Home can be many things to many people.

8/18/12 - Person of interest. Something about discovering the internal motivations for behavior.

9/5/12 - Pride. I owed Stonehill everything that it gave me, and I still do.

9/12/12 - I'm in love with your honor. This is not a post about Socrates and death. This is a post about being almost broken up with.

9/21/12 - My #stonehillprobz. This was a weird moment where I was mad at everyone for caring about the wrong things. Turns out I really just didn't understand Twitter yet. I'm still not sure I do.

9/30/12 - First Breath After Coma. I'm pretty sure it's only this one, The Only Moment We Were Alone, and Memorial (maybe) that I had song titles for from The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place, but anyways, this one is about my aunt passing away and my first real experience with the death of a close family member.

12/15/12 - It's natural to be afraid. I might as well be One Tree Hill using all these song titles and lyrics as blog post titles. This one recaps the most difficult of my eight semesters at Stonehill, featuring six classes, my aunt passing away, an Orientation mentee telling me another one of my mentees was self-harming, and my relationship ending every other week. Once all of those things were in play, it was really tough on me, I didn't know how to get out of my own head, and went to health services for the one and only time. You always come out the other side.