The city is a shard of stained glass on the horizon, thin and long, glittering with gold and red light. I am sitting on the roof you (with my fear of heights) coaxed me onto. The desert is pink and calm, shrubs dotting the field between my gaze and the shimmering glass horizon city. We are at your eccentric Dad's house. We scraped together a bowl of medical grade Cannabis from his grinder and had had the better part of a fifth of Ketel One Cirtoen Vodka which you had nabbed from a grocery store. I remember you remarking on how easy it was to steal. I remember feeling free, sitting on the roof, facing my fear of heights.

I remember too, earlier, driving, with a $100 8-ball of cocaine in the Corolla, playing a mix of disco and trap songs on a bluetooth speaker. The 8-ball was pre-divided into dime bags, which we had scored from a dealer who was happy to make less and get home early. I remember him speaking in a very "deep" way while

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Over a decade ago, I posted A Pandeist responds to Lewis Loflin "Debunking Panendeism"; and while I don't know if Loflin took the criticism leveled there to heart, he seems to have realized his original work was sufficiently deficient to need to be given another try, posting a rewritten essay at the same address -- only this time, he enlisted a superior intellect, with an acknowledgment at the end that "Grok, an AI by xAI, helped smooth this…

Antinatalism is the philosophical belief that procreation is morally unjustifiable. It applies primarily to human procreation, though some antinatalists apply these principles to all sentient life. Antinatalism as a concept extends far back into human history, and has been grappled with, in one way or another, by many of the world's religious traditions. Modern Philosopher David Benatar sums up antinatalism nicely in a series of axiological deductions, found in his book, "Better Never to

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