Essays and Opinions

Two Plants

Once, a man brought home two plants. The first was tall, long, and beautifully shaped. It…
Fear: The Perception of Action and Consequence

Feelings and emotions are a driving force of our being and shape who we are as…
The Difficulty in Pascal’s Wager

You’ve probably heard of Pascal’s Wager, a philosophical argument created by the 17th-century philosopher and mathematician…
Monotheism With Many Gods

Roger McCann Friedrich Nietzsche’s metaphor “God is dead” is no more literally true (as claimed by…
Manto In-Between

Saadat Hasan Manto’s ‘Dog of Titwal’ places a mongrel in between two similarly looming hillocks where…
Shooting ‘as’ an Elephant

I was in a Literature class this morning, taught in a very engaging way. While discussing…
A commentary on T.S. Eliot’s Tradition and the Individual Talent

“But the intellect (nous) is perhaps something more divine and unaffected (impassible).” ‘Historical sense’ is an…
…like a Dog

John Wick: Ioseph beats Wick’s dog to death, Wick’s companion in grief. Wick exacts a terrible revenge. “It’s…
Personal Emancipation Through Metaphysical Encounters: The Samaritan Woman and Nachikethas

This short essay deconstructs the idea of personal emancipation through two spiritual encounters. The first is…
“What Seek Ye?”, a brief reflection on Identity and Freedom

FC Burkitt’s claim in his preface to Schweitzer’s The Quest for the Historical Jesus, that Christianity is…