The Savage Philosopher

Never quit! I don't care if you woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning and it seems like the world is conspiring against you. Get up! Get out! Get Done! The world is not meant to be easy. It is meant to be brutal. It is meant to shape us into better Humans and show us the difference between surviving and thriving. How many times do we just not feel like doing the things that we had decided to do? And then, after we pressed on anyways, wondered why it was such a struggle to get started?  We have the advantage and disadvantage of being able to assign meaning to the events that occur in our life. You know you have done this when the words, "it was meant to be" escapes your lips. Animals, do not have the cognitive ability for this type of imaginative creative storytelling. So why do we? Is this the first hint that maybe we are something more than just flesh on bone driven by animal instinct. (Notice the period and not the question mark at the end of the last ...

Seriously, why are you here? Why did you bother to wake up this morning? What drives you to go to work? Is it fear or it is it passion? My purpose today is to give you something to reflect on. I want you to think about how you are living and examine for a moment if you are really living at all. It took me years to have the courage to ask the deeper questions of my existence. And today, I would like to share one small filament that guides me: Choice. The most amazing power we have is the power to choose. The problem is that most of us do not know that we have this power. We assume that our choices are limited to a selection of choices instead of having the unlimited choices. We are told by 'others' that we can choose to do "this" or we can choose to do "that". Our choices normally come in pairs; get a job or go to school, marry the person or move on, buy this house or rent it. This dichotomy is built into the system of life. But why? Why have we 'chose...

The Savage Philosopher Purpose: I am here as a Savage; one who lives in the brutality of life, and as a Philosopher; one who examines the meaning of it. I believe that the Human race will one day come together and connect in ways that make our world a better place for generations to come. Since the beginning of time humans have come together for survival and for prosperity. We started out small families that grew into larger tribes until we were Nations. Many things separate us; from languages to ideals, we separate our world into comfortable spaces. Our challenge then is to become uncomfortable. We must seek experiences to connect with one another, and we must learn to live with each other’s differences. I have hope for the human race. I have hope that we will one day reconcile our differences with tolerance and acceptance. I have hope that we will no longer seek to control others, but seek to find Harmony. While I have hope, I am a realist. The human race is first and foremost an...