(This is a follow up to Six Words and Honest.) The original key phrase to this word was no foolish statements and as I begin this process, I don’t know exactly what I meant, especially considering what I thought about in the Honest discussion and the overall goal of this project to stop complaining and work …
Category: Armchair Philosophy
Entries where I explore things from a higher perspective and try to apply wisdom from the past to the current day.
Uncle Josh on Honesty
The first word I came up with in the Six Words exercise was Honest. The phrase I attached to this was *No False Statements*. This is probably easier to manage that the positive for: *Always tell the truth*. Honesty intersects with the cardinal virtues in the following ways: Courage – sometimes it requires courage to …
Uncle Josh on Those Damned Penguins
One of the cruel dichotomies of the universe is I am very easy to buy gifts for. Family and friends are quite generous at the gift-giving events and they report walking around practically anywhere in the world and see something and think “Uncle Josh would love this”. They are usually right. The sad reverse of …
Uncle Josh on Impatience and the Pixel 7
My phone, a hardy Samsung Galaxy S7, has been through some rough times and got old. The battery life was measured in minutes, not hours. I could not find a case that didn’t lift the protective screen up enough to turn it into a touch-insensitive surface. The screen protector itself had taken several blows and …
Uncle Josh on Fucking Up
This week, and part of last week, and the week before, seem to be a deluge of fuck-ups. Not current fuck-ups, either, but things I fucked up weeks ago that nobody noticed until this week. It’s a haunting of past mistakes. Many of them are oversights and there are quite a few false memories involved …
Uncle Josh on Uncle Josh
One of the lies I tell myself regularly is that I’m a writer. Only I haven’t written fiction in months, and I haven’t edited any of the work I have written, and I haven’t submitted anything for a long time, either. So can I call myself a writer anymore? I have several non-personal writing assignments. …