Philosophy

If your life has ever seemed like a grand work of fiction rife with irony, coincidence, and romance perhaps it's because our world is something like a novel written by an alien author.

I was raised Christian and was a very energetic evangelical but as a young adult, I drifted away from the religion and ultimately became an atheist for intellectual reasons.

I did a "No-Black Pill April" a while back; black pill is internet parlance for depressing news content; the news is more often than not depressing and cortisol stimulating. Of course, I don't watch the nightly news on television - Fox News or CNN - but over the past few years, I've become a bit of a political news junkie following a bunch of alternative news personalities. I unfollowed everyone on Twitter and unsubscribed from everyone I watched on Youtube that discussed the news for a month. I'd encourage you to try doing a "No-Black Pill April" but honestly, it didn't make much of a difference in my subjective mood and mental health in April, but I've got an interesting philosophical takeaway from it...