Mythologizing Death in Atheism

Within a span of a few days (a couple years ago) I read the His Dark Materials Trilogy (the first book of which was made into a movie called The Golden Compass) and watched the movie The Fountain starring Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz.
These two pieces of media simultaneously argued, in my view, that death in [...]

Depressive Realism and the Objet Petit a

Depressive realism is a theory which states that people who are depressed are able to more accurately gauge their reputation, locus of control, abilities, and the way the world actually is. It’s argued that depressed people are able to see without the rose-colored glasses that non-depressed people wear. On initial reflection I was inclined to [...]

fantasy of love and sex

The following article was published in Mars’ Hill, the student newspaper for Trinity Western University. I wanted to talk about something that lurks on the underbelly of our school. This piece attempts to put forward a mimetic theory of pornography. In some following posts I will discuss why I don’t think that theory covers everything.
The [...]