by KimBoo York | Dec 9, 2013 | Recommendations
A well done video of David Foster Wallace’s Kenyon College commencement speech. It is worth watching and thinking about, offering up a thoughtful commentary on modern life and what we think about:
by KimBoo York | Sep 18, 2013 | Mourning, Recommendations
I was talking to my friend David recently about funerals. He is an observant Jew who had attended an Evangelical Christian funeral, and was appalled by the fact that the music was recorded. I have to assume it was a pretty terrible choice of hymns or a cheap sound...
by KimBoo York | Oct 8, 2012 | Atheism, Mourning, Recommendations
Many atheists are familiar with the popular podcast The Thinking Atheist, which is an excellently produced show that covers a myriad of topics every week. Seth Andrews, the man behind the curtain, was a devout Christian for the first part of his life and worked in...
by KimBoo York | Jun 14, 2012 | Atheism, Recommendations
I was lucky to watch this video of Sam Harris earlier today, and I want to share it with you because I feel he touches on some important topics concerning death and atheism. As usual, Sam Harris discusses these profound matters much more cogently than I can, and with...
by ::::kbs | Feb 5, 2011 | Recommendations
A few weeks ago I posted about the idea of “a safe place to break”, where you sometimes don’t actually deal with a traumatic life experience until much later when you have arrived at a place or time that is safe. That idea originated with a fellow New College alum and...
by ::::kbs | Jan 8, 2011 | Recommendations
Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts. ~ Elbert Hubbard I will lay fair odds that you probably have not heard of Elbert Hubbard. That fact is a shame, because he was one of the great progressives of the early 20th century: a philosopher with a...
