It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate. – William Faulkner On December 9th, 2013 Michael Deng, a freshman pledge for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi, participated in an initiation ritual called the “glass ceiling.” For it, he was blindfolded and strapped with a 20 pound backpack…
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey Pain—what an unpleasant sensation. If happiness is the ultimate good, then pain is the ultimate bad. However, if pain really is this unequivocally negative experience, why do we even have it? From an evolutionary standpoint, pain serves to remind us something’s wrong. Physically speaking, it alerts…
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. –Abraham Lincoln There are three things the world could not currently live without: electricity, Google maps, and coffee (fresh water, food, and sunlight are overrated). And so I will now demonstrably prove through formal logic, why…