Reason, purpose, video games and self-esteem.
Recently I have been exposed to different convictions regarding the topic of men and their emotions, and much of it has primed me to begin writing a little bit about it, as not only does it pertain to my own gender, but is also a fairly important topic of discussion, particularly in the realms of […]
It’s been a little while since my last post! I’ve been very busy doing other things, such as going on my one year anniversary trip with my partner and also thinking about what I’d like to do during my long summer vacation. Part of the things that I want to do more of is write, […]
A short post, but today is the day my book has finally gone live! I started work on my book as a collection of thoughts and graphs on A4 papers, and eventually turned it into a short book on teaching language, problems faced in Japan and methods to approach teaching. It’s all based off of […]
Another recent gaming purchase of mine has been My Time At Portia, which is basically a life simulator similar to games like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley. Interestingly enough both this and my previous purchase, Genesis: Alpha One, were published by Team17. It seems they know how to pick good titles as, like Genesis, Portia […]
Over the past few weeks, I have been in quite the slump, emotionally. My moods have been all over the place, and while there have been legitimate reasons for much of it, at the same time I was having difficulty getting back to how I usually feel and think. It’s unusual for me in this […]
A challenging part of human living is the area in which emotions arise. They can range from extremes of profound pleasure such as happiness, joy and contentment, to catastrophically painful states such as grief, depression and guilt. Some schools of thought consider emotions as states that are beyond our capacity to control and something we […]
In my previous post on discussing love, what it is and why it is conditional, I had written that values are objective. Today’s post will delving more into the topic surrounding values, ethics and their roots with epistemology necessarily being attached to it. Here I discuss the two major schools of thought that currently dominate […]
I answer a lot of questions on Quora, a website where people can ask questions and receive answers from all kinds of people; whether it be from academics, blue collar workers or very scary Objectivist’s such as myself. It’s an enjoyable activity of mine, and I usually focus on the topics that are of biggest […]
Something I have recently heard in discussions is the dichotomy between the “short term” and “long term” goal mindsets; the idea that you can create goals across the span of a certain amount of time, with some of it being defined as “long”, and other goals defined as “short”. The distinction and where a goal […]
Last week, I didn’t have much work to do, and most of what I had to do was quite menial and not very stimulating on a cognitive level. It’s not that often I get weeks as free as that, but it happened, and most of my time was spent doing my usual routine activities, and […]
