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A Year of Contemplation

This is What We’re Here For (Day 155)

6/4/2019

 
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Why are we here? Well, the most basic answer is that our parents got together and some chemicals and bio-bits did they’re thing… then POOF! Here we are! 

OK, that’s how we came to be, but WHY are we here? What’s the meaning of life? 

To live. To carry on the long line of adversity, challenge, and struggle. To defiantly face opposition, and to make it through in spite of it

That’s it. That’s why we’re here. 

Sorry if it wasn’t what you expected; however, it’s true. 

Why then are we offended? Why do we complain?
This is what we’re here for.”

- Seneca, On Providence, 5.7b-8

Anything above that is our ego talking, our over-inflated sense of self telling us that we are burdened with glorious purpose. 

We’re here to be turned into compost at the end of things, and to live in magnificence in the meantime. 

(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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