Here you’ll find my philosophical meanderings in the form of articles, essays, and occasional poetry. My interests and curiosities are broad, but the central focus remains the pursuit of what is authentic, real, and true.

Lux et veritas

Journal Entries / truth (31 Posts)

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Love Is War

A Life in Three Words

11 November 2026 ~ 3 minute read

Some phrases stay with us because they capture something we’ve spent years trying to understand. Looking again, loving life, walking the walk, amplifying the light: each has marked a different stage of my journey. Now another has emerged. Amor bellum est. Love is war. Perhaps the greatest battles are those that bring us closer to truth, dismantle our illusions, and change everything we thought we knew.

Intelligence Beyond the Machinery

There's No AI for That

03 October 2026 ~ 10 minute read

We live amid an extraordinary amount of noise, much of it carefully arranged to keep our attention somewhere outside ourselves. The machinery grows more sophisticated, the stories more elaborate, and the demands upon our attention more constant, but the underlying question remains much the same: what happens when we surrender too much of our perception, our authority, and our agency to systems that claim to know what is best for us?

Memory

The Record and the Real

19 September 2026 ~ 7 minute read

We live surrounded by records of ourselves, accumulating layer upon layer of what we once thought worth remembering, preserving, cataloging, and carrying forward. Yet perhaps memory was never meant to be a warehouse, and perhaps the deeper work is not in retaining everything, but in discerning what remains when everything else inevitably falls away.

While We’re Still Here

Fear, Fiction, and the Human Story

04 September 2026 ~ 8 minute read

Perhaps the first thing worth questioning is not what we have been told about the world, but why we have been taught to fear it in the first place. So much of what passes for certainty seems to depend upon our willingness to accept the premise before we ever examine it, and so much of what follows becomes inevitable only because we have agreed, consciously or otherwise, that it must be. Somewhere beneath all of it remains a simpler possibility: that we have far more agency than we’ve been led to believe, and that the story is not yet finished.

The Reality We Inherited

Standing on Stories

15 August 2026 ~ 8 minute read

There is a peculiar exhaustion that comes from maintaining a reality some deeper part of you no longer believes. You can learn to live with the contradictions, explain away the inconsistencies, and keep moving through the machinery of everyday life, but the questions remain. Perhaps the greater discomfort isn’t discovering that something you believed was untrue. Perhaps it’s realizing how much of yourself you invested in believing it.

The Fight

08 June 2026 ~ 3 minute read

You don’t fight to win. You fight to prevent the psychopaths from destroying everything they touch.