A Scholar Is Just A

There’s Simply No Polite Way To Tell People They’ve Dedicated Their Lives To An Illusion.

Life Itself Is Just A Thin Coat Of Paint On The Planet, And We Hold The Paintbrush.

As Every Scuba Diver Knows, Panic Is Your Worst Enemy: When It Hits, Your Mind Starts To Thrash And You Are Likely To Do Something Really Stupid And Self-destructive.

People Are Afraid Of Being More Ignorant Than Their Children―especially, Apparantly, Their Daughters.

Highly Technical Philosophical Arguments Of The Sort Many Philosophers Favor Are Absent Here. That Is Because I Have A Prior Problem To Deal With. I Have Learned That Arguments, No Matter How Watertight, Often Fall On Deaf Ears. I Am Myself The Author Of Arguments That I Consider Rigorous And Unanswerable But That Are Often Not Such Much Rebutted Or Even Dismissed As Simply Ignored.