The Liberating Truths of Anarchism, Atheism, and Nihilism (ASMR)<\/a><\/p>\nTruthfully … I could only get through the first half hour of it before the digressive clauses and rambling knifed my patience. But that was enough. It’s a good insight. <\/p>\n
No god. <\/p>\n
No master. <\/p>\n
No nothin’.<\/p>\n
I could write for quite a while on what each of the pieces really means, and how they fit almost seamlessly together, and in fact I have been doing so, just … inside my own head, rather than here. <\/p>\n
Maybe I’ll put it down. On the page. Down like a rabid skunk. <\/p>\n
Or maybe I’ll glance off it like a marble in zero G. <\/p>\n
Either way it’s okay, because there ain’t <\/p>\n
No rules<\/p>\n
neither. <\/p>\n
***<\/p>\n
The distance to the Moon is about 240,000 miles, which is a little hard to imagine, but you can do it. Forty or fifty round trips from New York to LA, right?<\/p>\n
To the Sun, it’s 93 million. Eight minutes at the speed of light. <\/p>\n
Don’t know about you, but I cannot relate. <\/p>\n
How many miles to the next closest star?<\/p>\n
Proxima Centauri is about 25 trillion miles from here. <\/p>\n
It’s not a distance the brain of a mammal can easily apprehend. <\/p>\n
And that’s just the closest one. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Or to put it a different way: \u201cIt is better to starve to death in a calm and confident state of mind, than to live anxiously amidst abundance.\u201d –Epictetus If you were to take Stoicism seriously, you would take this Stoic proverb seriously too: You would live and believe as if it were literally true. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7803"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7806,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7803\/revisions\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vairtere.com\/spill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}