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A Year of Contemplation

Real Good is Simple (Day 110)

4/20/2019

 
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​The more I look into the heart of media, the more I see people and companies trying to exploit what is “good”. These entities offer (more like SELL) elements of what they believe to make up “the good life”. 

Hobbies, fine clothes, gym memberships, better job, season tickets, coolest car, etc. etc. etc. 

Those things done make up a “good” life. They’re distractions and coverings. They advocate for  appearance-based value and blind consumerism. Worst of all, to achieve all this we have to devote a tremendous amount of time, energy, and heart to resource-building… 

… all to be able to convince ourselves and others that all this complex bullshit is coming together to form something “good”. 

REAL good, however, is derived from a more simple set of elements. 

Wisdom, justice, self-discipline, courage… virtue. 

Looking “good” and being good are vastly different. 

When I invest in the above, I don’t ever suffer buyer’s remorse. 

(See y’all tomorrow) 

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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