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Hiram’s 2022 Year in Books
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Hiram Crespo
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Epicurus, Nietzsche, Zarathustra
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Hiram Crespo is the founder/editor of SocietyOfEpicurus.com, and the author of Tending the Epicurean Garden
(Humanist Press, 2014), How to Live a Good Life (Penguin Random House, 2020) and
Epicurus of Samos - His Philosophy and Life: All the principal Classical texts Compiled and Introduced by Hiram Crespo
(Ukemi Audiobooks, 2020). He's been featured in The Humanist (a publication of the American Humanist Association), occupy.com, the online classics journal Eidolon, Partially Examined Life, The Secular Web, Europa Laica, and many other outlets. He has been featured in the Seize the Moment podcast, and in the special edition How to Live a Good Life series of philosophical discussions.He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Stu ...more
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My Incursion into Sci-Fi
Many moons ago (well, more like five years or so), I was part of an initiative by a fellow writer and friend of mine, Caleb. He is a gay, atheist author of risqué literature, and he wanted to publish a Puerto Rican sci-fi anthology, which we felt was overdue. So I wrote and submitted "Ogre Island", a coming-of-age story of a Neanderthal boy in a future where these hominids have been cloned and are
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“Ingratitude is a bad habit by which we needlessly punish ourselves. When we no longer have the things we enjoy, we miss them and long for the past, long for what is not there, long to escape. Being always mindfully unhappy and mindlessly happy is not a prudent way to live. The Epicurean must train himself to be mindfully happy.”
― Tending the Epicurean Garden
― Tending the Epicurean Garden
“Without the reference points of pleasure and pain, people invent imaginary and abstract standards for ethics that are divorced from reality and generate vast amounts of unnecessary suffering. Pleasure is the only >real< ethical guide. It returns our conversations about ethics to the natural context where these conversations belong: the well-being of sentient beings.”
― Tending the Epicurean Garden
― Tending the Epicurean Garden
“Is it intelligent to make ourselves miserable while living in the past, haunted by memories while being inexorably swallowed by them? Whenever we reminisce about our past life, we are advised in our tradition to be in a state of gratefulness. Be mindful of nurturing unnecessary grief and staying stuck in old pain.”
― Tending the Epicurean Garden
― Tending the Epicurean Garden
“I once heard a Native American teaching story in which an elder, a grandmother, was asked what she had done to become so happy, so wise, so loved and respected.
She replied: “It’s because I know that there are two wolves in my heart, a wolf of love and a wolf of hate. And I know that everything depends on which one I feed each day.”
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She replied: “It’s because I know that there are two wolves in my heart, a wolf of love and a wolf of hate. And I know that everything depends on which one I feed each day.”
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“The temple of the most high begins with the body which houses our life, the essence of our existence. Africans are in bondage today because they approach spirituality through religion provided by foreign invaders and conquerors. We must stop confusing religion and spirituality. Religion is a set of rules, regulations and rituals created by humans, which was suppose to help people grow spiritually. Due to human imperfection religion has become corrupt, political, divisive and a tool for power struggle. Spirituality is not theology or ideology. It is simply a way of life, pure and original as was given by the Most High of Creation. Spirituality is a network linking us to the Most High, the universe, and each other…”
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“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are gods.”
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
― The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
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