HeyJaredStephen J. King - Guide To The Real World
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Returning To The Beginning. (opens the original)
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By the time you read this, I’ll be on the road once more. This time returning to the beginning, and bringing a two years-long experiment to a conclusion. The previous leg of the journey, about six months ago, I’d moved house to a predominately conservative town and a predominately conservative state. Why? Well, I did it for myself, to get clarity. Not to write about it, report on it, or anything of that sort. It was personal. I needed to understand why life, my surroundings, seemed so antagonist
Anatomy of an Affair (opens the original)
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Why do men have affairs?And, yes, I know it’s not just men — these days, women have almost the same number of affairs - yay for equality. But, I have a theory. It’s something I’ve been pondering for a while. Not because anyone I personally know is having an affair, mind you. But, like many other things I think about as a way of protecting myself from po… Read more
Selfish Authenticity (opens the original)
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Does the needs of one, outweigh the needs of the many? Do we have a responsibility to allow children to grow as they want to, or to shape them for the greater good? Where do we draw the lines on responsibility?In the 1840s, Kierkegaard argued that the deepest human failure was living according to someone else's truth rather than one’s own. A couple of h… Read more
Abducted (opens the original)
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This is an odd one. Although I’m as curious about UFOs as the next person, I’ve always had a strong aversion to anyone claiming to have been abducted. Not that it’s technically unreasonable, mind you. It makes sense. If you accept there are alien craft floating about in our skies, then you should probably also accept that there are occupants guiding the… Read more
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