How to Be Intellectually Honest
Intellectual honesty is a commitment to examine the evidence, think rationally, tell the truth, and act according to the truth.
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Hermes Solenzol
Feb 9, 20233 min read
A Review of 'Radical Ecstasy'
Review of Radical Ecstasy, by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy, a book about the intersection of BDSM and mysticism.
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Hermes Solenzol
Feb 4, 20238 min read
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, 20235 min read
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, 20238 min read
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, 202211 min read
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, 202214 min read
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, 202212 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 202213 min read
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, 202215 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20225 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 202210 min read
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, 202211 min read
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 2, 20226 min read
Is casual sex unethical?
Sex is ethical without love or outside a relationship
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Hermes Solenzol
Dec 29, 20214 min read
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, 20217 min read
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, 202110 min read
Masculine Virtues
How to cultivate a healthy masculinity Masculinity is anchored in biological sex differences Our biological sex - being male or female -...
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