1 Have Sex and Make Babies...

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."  - Friedrich Nietzsche  A few years ago, I decided that life is meaningless. Well, less decided and more realized. This did not go over well with few-years-ago Sydney. It's hard to realize that everything you've done, everything you will do, has no rhyme or reason. Everything was hopeless and miserable. That is, until I also realized something else. Yes, life has no meaning. There's no set assigned meaning. Our purpose in life isn't to have sex and make babies anymore. Life is a blank slate. But that's the point. It's a blank slate. It means that the world...

0 A Weird Version Of Mean Girls...

"Fear follows crime and is its punishment." - Voltaire Okay, so lets say that I kill someone. Let's say his name was Aidan and he was Irish or something along those lines. Now lets suspend reality even more and say that I got caught. The evidence is airtight and noncircumstantial. And there's no hope for my lawyer for getting me off (and me shouting that he deserved it, that he was asking for it, that I won and that's all that matters didn't really help either) and this is his only defense: that I am insane. And they'd diagnose me and say it was true and lock me up in the big white room with the fluffy everywhere. And why? Because I'm...

1 In A Game Of Chicken, Cars Always Win...

"The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing." - SocratesOkay, think about something you know. Something you're super sure that you know and you have little to no doubt about. Something that is undeniably true. Not something like your name or your address or the best school in Chicago. Something else. Got it? Got that undeniable fact that you absolutely know? Okay? How do you know it? How do you know what you know? Can you trace where you learned it? And, most importantly, how do you know that it is true? For most things, it's easy enough to trace back to how you know what you know. Your parents may have told you why you look...