Kris J. Simpson

The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts Photo by James Hammond “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.” — Wayne Dyer Once upon a time in a distant land, a small village lay along a bustling trade route. Every day, five blind men gathered in the town square, eagerly listening as travelling merchants shared stories of faraway lands and strange creatures they had encountered. One of the animals that particularly interested these men was the magnificent...

Can Knowledge free us from suffering? Photo by Greg Rakozy “Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?” — The Will to Power Fredrick Nietzsche did not endorse nihilism; rather, he cautioned that it would represent the inevitable and tragic consequence of the modern epoch following the “ death of God” — a metaphor denoting the collapse of enduring meaning-making traditions that historically underpinned the foundations of our civilizations. Albert Camus, a...

Why Narcissus Needed a Camera Instead of a Mirror Exploring the city of Toronto! The decision came down from the school principal, and although I had seen it coming since I had become such a liability, I was still disappointed. The rest of my grade 8 classmates would be off to the Zoo for the last school trip of the year, but I would be forced to stay behind because of past, undeniable bad behaviour. My conduct during a school trip to Ottawa earlier that year turned what was intended to be a...