How would you handle the fear of loss and create a purpose if you lived fifteen times longer than everyone around you? These are the core challenges the protagonist faces in urban fantasy novel How to Stop Time. I explore his relationships and how he finds meaning—albeit incompletely—in my latest Substack.
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Maddox examines the divide between reason-based philosophy and faith-based Christianity—and why it matters. It’s the difference between knowing how to know and merely assuming you do, without evidence.
Seamus shares how he broke free from negative emotional patterns using philosophy, psychology, and personal experience.
Maddox shares how accepting mortality after losing faith brought deeper meaning and urgency to his life.
Craig Biddle and philosopher Lance Bush dive into metaethics—exploring intrinsicism, subjectivism, and Objectivism—and what each view means for understanding “good” and “value.”