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The world was terrible. That’s something I didn’t appreciate for a long time, and I’m still not sure it’s something I really grasp. It’s one thing to see a statistic. It’s another thing entirely to sit and to try to imagine what those numbers are trying to say — what horror is tracked by the…
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There’s something horrific about the idea of hell. Which is, of course, the point of it all. It’s not a particularly scary story without some horror to go alongside it. But I think there’s something far, far, more unsettling than hell itself. Our response. It’s not particularly new as an idea, but forgiveness goes hand…
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The Frenchman wonders whether to stay home with their dying mother, or to go off to war.
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All we have is where we are. And where we are, right now, is defined entirely from within our mind.
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I think maybe it’s worth highlighting that nothing I’m saying here is particularly novel, nor do I even endorse a lot of the sentiment I’m about to express. Others have said what I’m about to say before, and almost certainly better than I have. I think it’s still worth writing this for two reasons. Firstly,…
Scouting Ahead 