Here Bethany and I talk about Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand’s 1957 masterpiece of a novel. As a heads up, we do discuss specific plot points from the book. We had a wonderful conversation and touched on the Nietzschean Overwoman and the nuance of selfishness, as well as other things we really enjoyed about the book. To read Bethany’s writing, please subscribe to her substack; https://open.substack.com/pub/bethanybtabor?r=lm9mc&utm_medium=ios 💖

Is there such a thing as a soul mate?

Thoughts on this after hearing the idea from Javier and his English class. Check out his channel; https://youtube.com/channel/UCQBytMeNh47LGa_Gh1hKagA

Diving deeper into being, with Sand and Shell. (Sanduni and Michelle)

Mere thought exploration.

Here I talk about the inevitability or creation in destruction as well as our relational and communal ontology and now modern art illustrates this very inevitability.

Just my ideas here working out the concept

Provoked by https://youtu.be/dVyXRudYnuY

I mention Javier Rivera’s analogy (the cup that is too full cannot receive anymore and therefore it feels that it is lacking when it is actually too full) from his reflection linked below; https://youtu.be/L6JDtr6MNbE also I mention ideas of Nothingness from Thomas Winn and Javier Rivera’s discussion; https://youtu.be/NG1Czst7FlQ

Thoughts on Thomas Merton’s essay Symbolism; Communication or Communion?