My third anthology is available now on Amazon, collecting mostly my Medium articles and some other recent ones that came out on my blog after the second anthology.
The third one's called Dirge of the Awakened Ones, it's 578 pages and it's out in paperback and eBook formats. This eBook includes chapter links, and I'll be fixing up the formats of the earlier anthologies, now that I'm a little better at formatting.
Stay safe, wash your hands, and treat each other like the plague. ;)
The Quran is supposed to lay bare the essence of monotheism that's been obscured by Jewish and Christian backsliding. So is monotheism still respectable? Here's an article that examines the themes of the Quran and explains the source of the Quran's audacity.
Here you'll find answers to whether philosophy is pedantic, antisocial, and pseudoscientific or BS.
This article is about how, beyond the stale, skewed, and superficial debate about whether religion is rational, there's a conflict between the values of progress and submission.
Read on for a critique of Anthony Kronman's case against Christianity, focusing on the incoherence and fictional nature of Augustine's and Luther's theologies.
Here's an article about how we evade or confront the existential mystery, by grooming each other with words or by having a meeting of minds to explore ideas without guile or fear.
This article is about our species' blundering into destructiveness. The difference between human children and adults is one of degree; we're too smart for our good, since we mostly retain the naivety about existential matters that governs our childhood.
Read this article to see why existential philosophy and art should replace the religious discourse of spirituality.
This article is about existential struggle, the need for camaraderie to stave off high-tech alienation, and the difference between heroic suffering and First World annoyances.
Read on to learn about the con of mystical oneness, the demonization of humanists, and the heroism of existential rebellion against the universe's pointlessness.
This article is about how absurdity is better than nothing: reason may be subversive as the nihilist says, but the objective world is inherently funny and creative.