To worry is to be. To be is to worry.
Most western religions believe that God created the world in six days and then rested on the seventh, which is the reason for the tradition or, in many cases, the dictate that we break from our normal labors on the Sabbath. The world would be a much poorer, but significantly more enjoyable place if religions [...]
I’m told that it takes considerable training and practice to achieve true Nirvana through transcendental meditation. I don’t know about that. I’ve never tried transcendental or any other kind of meditation, but my understanding is that the objective is to clear your mind and free yourself from the confines of conscious thought. How difficult can [...]
I’ve had many regrets over the course of my life. In fact, without regrets I’d be an empty shell of a man. Obviously, I’m exaggerating a bit. There’s more to me than just regrets. I also have worries. I often worry that, with my memory declining as I age, which is one of the great [...]
People in the human resources departments of large companies spend considerable time trying to figure out how to best hire and manage people. Some of the more senior people in this field obtained post-graduate degrees from major universities where, in addition to spending many hours trying and occasionally succeeding at getting laid, they devoted a [...]
I don’t know what taxi drivers are like where you live, but they’re a menace here. Many of them speed like demons, although I don’t have much right to complain about that as I too have broken the speed limit once or twice in my life. I’ve done it much more than that, which means [...]
If some women choose, of their own free will, to walk along the city’s public sidewalks wearing printed t-shirts that splash pithy sayings across their chests, why do they then get upset when, without making any physical contact whatsoever, I read what’s written there? Is it my fault that I’m a nearsighted slow reader with [...]
I’ve developed a firm conviction that cleanliness truly is next to Godliness. In addition to bringing me great comfort, the internalization of this philosophy has also bestowed a number significant benefits upon me as I go about my daily life. For example, being an atheist, it’s greatly reduced my household chores.
I am a man my age. One would think that was intuitively obvious. One would be wrong. I became a man my age sometime after turning forty, which was well over a decade ago. Around that time I took a fitness test at my health club. The tester put me on a treadmill and measured [...]