YOLO is the new Epicureanism: Cameron Cole explains why YOLO (and FOMO) are just reheated old ideas. “If this life constitutes the entirety of your existence, then you absolutely must maximize your enjoyment. You must never miss an opportunity for fun and pleasure. If this life is it, then you live with a sense of urgency and fear that if you decline an invitation or miss a good time, then you are wasting your one and only finite life.”
The indiscipline of overwork: Ryan Holiday asks, “Do you want to be the artist who loses their joy for the process, who has strip-mined their soul in such a way that there is nothing left to draw upon? Burn out or fade away—that was the question in Kurt Cobain’s suicide note. How is that even a dilemma?”
5 things science cannot explain (but Theism can): JP Moreland with an excellent post. For instance, “Science cannot explain the origin of consciousness… Given naturalism, there is just no place to put consciousness… So the naturalist either (1) has to say that these things (e.g., a feeling of pain) just aren’t what they seem to be from first-person introspection and, instead, are actually physical things; or else (2) has to deny that they are real in the first place (e.g., consciousness does not exist!).”
Assessing the arguments for and against physician-assisted suicide: Wayne Grudem responds, “If murder is morally wrong, even the desire of the person who wants to be murdered cannot make it morally right, for it is still taking a human life. A person’s right to life does not depend on the person himself wanting to live.”
Emperor penguin chicks jump off a 50-foot cliff in Antarctica: The commentary here is gold: sheer delight.

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