We Are Stardust - Finding Meaning in the Universe
The Universe has meaning because it produced consciousness, intelligence and culture.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Jan 29
- 5 min
One-Legged Love
Dating an amputee made me discover her inner strength and find a new meaning for beauty.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Jan 2
- 8 min
The Evidence for Free Will and How Denying It Devaluates Freedom
Denial of free will is based on religious or mystical ideas and can have dire consequences by making it ethical to control the mind.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Dec 24, 2022
- 11 min
We Need to Have a Conversation About Having Difficult Conversations
An exploration of the things that hinder the conversations needed for social change.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Dec 6, 2022
- 14 min
Pain Is Not Suffering
Pain is a sensation that is not always unpleasant, while suffering is a state of being based on emotions, values and meaning.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Nov 21, 2022
- 12 min
Musings About My Ego
The ego appears when shame and pride take over our consciousness and fill it with cravings.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Nov 5, 2022
- 8 min
Love On Trial
How romantic love is poisoned by myths about sexual exclusivity, possession, jealousy, eternal love, mind reading and dependence.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Oct 20, 2022
- 13 min
Not Just Intelligence - The Things That Make the Human Mind Unique
The mental qualities that make humans different from animals
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Hermes Solenzol
- Sep 22, 2022
- 15 min
The Case Against Animal Rights
Animals do not have rights because they are not end in themselves and cannot enter a Social Contract.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Aug 17, 2022
- 1 min
Remember When…?
Series of satiric questions remarking how progressivism and conservatism have both strayed from their original goals.
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Hermes Solenzol
- Apr 26, 2022
- 5 min
My Spiritual Path
This has been my quest for self-knowledge, self-transformation and meaning I started developing my philosophy of life when I left...
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Hermes Solenzol
- Apr 18, 2022
- 7 min
The Erotic Revolution
A conversation about sex, political change and inner liberation Excerpt from my novel “Games of Love and Pain”, to be published on June...
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Hermes Solenzol
- Mar 11, 2022
- 10 min
A Sex-Positive Manifesto
The principles of sex-positive culture are interdependent and logically anchored in personal freedom and autonomy Sex-positive culture...
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Hermes Solenzol
- Mar 6, 2022
- 11 min
How to Find Happiness
Happiness is not pleasure, joy, love, or the absence of suffering. Happiness is not an emotion, but a state of being. Should we be happy?...
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Hermes Solenzol
- Feb 26, 2022
- 9 min
The Russian-Ukrainian War - My Thoughts
The war started in 2016, and we are losing it, but we will probably win in the end As if the risk of slowly cooking our planet by pumping...
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Hermes Solenzol
- Feb 2, 2022
- 6 min
Is casual sex unethical?
Sex is ethical without love or outside a relationship
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Hermes Solenzol
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Is Knowledge Valuable for Its Own Sake?
Ethics philosophies are unclear on whether knowledge has intrinsic value. Science is the source of technology, but the knowledge it produces
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Hermes Solenzol
- Dec 25, 2021
- 7 min
Is It Ethical to Force People to Get Vaccinated?
Vaccines come before individual freedom, just like any other civic duties Almost a year ago, on January 8, 2021, I received the first...
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Hermes Solenzol
- Dec 7, 2021
- 10 min
Masculine Virtues - and Their Dark Side
Masculinity is anchored in biological sex differences Our biological sex - being male or female - is an integral part of our humanity....
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