Aphorisms and Paradoxes contains reflections on a variety of topics: life, death, religion, sex, politics, money, leisure, nature, travel, history, and more

• The Cosmos of Thought
  Thu, 6th Nov 2008 21:59 EST
  
  Stargazing is a boring hobby unless one supplements gazing with thinking. Visually, the night sky is among nature's plainest paintings—a black canvas speckled with dim white dots. Its most interesting...
• The Vegas of Voting Booths
  Mon, 27th Oct 2008 22:54 EDT
  
  Given the chicanery of politicians and the complexity of politics, how can one be an informed voter? Clear information about the candidates is inaccurate, while accurate information is unclear. The...
• The Pursuit of Happiness
  Sun, 19th Oct 2008 22:55 EDT
  
  The pursuit of happiness is doomed to fail, not because no one can be happy, but because no one can be happy by trying to be. Each new land that...
• Outliving Your Lover
  Sun, 28th Sep 2008 08:56 EDT
  
  A conundrum of lovers is who will die first. Though the masses sweat and diet to live longer, in love dying first is lucky, because living longer means living on...
• Why Youth Feels Immortal
  Mon, 22nd Sep 2008 23:02 EDT
  
  We seldom catch the transition from sleeping to waking. Gently we dawn into consciousness, but because so gently, we do not notice the metamorphosis until it's complete, when we discover...
• We Love Our Life in the Wrong Order
  Mon, 8th Sep 2008 22:59 EDT
  
  Each stage of life greatly pleases us, but unfortunately not while we are in it. The young are eager to be adults, adults look forward to being retired, the retired...
• Sex and Suburbia
  Fri, 29th Aug 2008 00:41 EDT
  
  When I see nature bulldozed to build subdivisions, I feel anger toward the developers. But when I drive by later and see the new homes filled with families, my anger...
• Missionaries and Genocide
  Thu, 28th Aug 2008 23:36 EDT
  
  Missionary work and genocide are founded upon a common premise. Only the conclusion from that premise differs. Genocide says: we are good, you are bad, therefore we will kill you....
• The Missionary's God
  Wed, 27th Aug 2008 22:33 EDT
  
  If, as missionaries believe, people must hear the true religion or be damned, it is poorly planned that God sets tribes in the middle of jungles where they will certainly...
• The Afterlife of Organ Donors
  Tue, 19th Aug 2008 08:55 EDT
  
  Organ donation is being buried in someone else's body. It is orphaning our insides. In our absence, a foster heart will nourish our kidney. Our liver will snuggle up to...