existentialism

I recently struck up a conversation on Facebook with an old high school friend. She spent 15 years on a mission in Thailand and works in personnel for the missionary group now in Colorado. She has four great kids (only 1 under 18), wonderful husband and is an all-around swell person...

So, I have never had a good time with philosophy. The first real philosophical work that I tried to read was Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra when I was 16, and I gave up reading it very soon after I gave up trying to understand it. I stayed away from philosophy for a few years, preferring...

Thought provoking NYT article, "Should This Be The Last Generation?" Here's an excerpt, discussing South African philosopher David Benatar's book, “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence.”:

I've looked this up and I just don't get it. In the most basic terms possible, please, what does this basically mean?

I keep pondering this word today. I almost had my legs chopped off by an old fart driving a BMW today. I was walking out of a store, the parking lot was mostly empty and serene. A car was passing, so I stopped and waved the driver by. I had plenty of time. Then as I was walking towards my...