Month: May 2006

by Jason Stotts When people ask me why I’m an Objectivist, I usually take some time and explain why in detail. The short answer, however, is that in Objectivism I find the philosophy which I had always lived by implicitly brought out into the light in well-reasoned and articulate essays by Ayn Rand. To give…

by Jason Stotts What follows is the beginning of a story that I started to write two years ago. The purpose of the story was to create a modern dialectic on a philosophical issue so that the issue can be dealt with from many sides in a way that most people find accessible. This particular…

by Jason Stotts The remembered kiss, your lover’s gaze, Invoke thoughts of together days. Your reunion, you do entreat, Longing for the day when again you’ll meet. Your lover’s embrace, you do desire, It sets your heart and loins afire. A single instant, of love’s true force, Has changed your life and its course. Now…

by Jason Stotts I’ve long been interested in the question of the origin of the world. As I aged, and matured, the question changed form and became deeper – instead of wondering about the origin of the world, I wondered about the origin of the universe itself. This gave rise to the ultimate question –…

by Jason Stotts I was thinking earlier, looking back on my four years at Denison University and reflecting on my recent graduation, and an interesting observation came to me. You see, while reflecting on my graduation I realized that I was not as excited about it as I had always imagined that I would be…

by Jason Stotts It’s strange really…to think that the culmination of four years of hard work – studying, acquiring knowledge, and developing as a person – should be a week of decadent indulgence. It seems that my fellow classmates, many of them at least, think that this indeed would be the best way to end…

by Jason Stotts I was walking through Crawford and I noticed a sign hanging in our back study lounge which had the following on it: Think not of what life could have been But open up your mind and see That happiness of life’s within Ones making life what it may be -Mikey- Now, I…