Infinite Patience Things inevitably fall apart. We play a largely passive role.

Rights and Obligations Some thoughts about the nature of rights, laws, and ethics.

Charred Corpses for Fertile Soil I wrote this while thinking about a conversation I'd had with a friend about the moral ambiguities of violence in revolution.

1 Atheist Enlightenment Some thoughts on the nature of determinism and the tao.

1 Substantial Independence Rent is theft, utilities are theft, mandatory insurance is theft, etc. As if having to buy things that your society has mandated as necessities isn't bad enough, having to pay money to keep and use these necessities is absurd.

Complex Systems Life is a series of objects arranged in a way that causes movement on a sub-astronomical scale; a mathematically predictable phenomenon - not even an anomaly, but an inevitable result of the near-infinite dispersal of matter.

Room For Rent Worrying about making sure the rent gets paid when I'm barely working and a roommate's moving out.

Clean Hands On death, theism, and grace, in either that or the opposite order depending on whether you take it as critique or praise. I like it both ways... just rewatched The Seventh Seal and I think it shows.

Weatherman We can all see the horrible things coming at as on a global scale, but what good does it do us, if we either can't or won't do anything about it?

1 Penitence I was thinking about some writing I felt sorry for, then thought about all the people I was glad to have offended with other writings and decided to write something humorous... though it kind of comes off as just mean-spirited and sad