Steven David Justin Sills
@poetinasia.bsky.social
Poet, novelist, philosopher, and essayist with a Master's degree in great books of the Western canon who writes a column on ethics. https://archive.org/details/americanpapyrusp0000sill
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Are politics incompatible with ethics? Was there ever a president whose conscience was not stained in blood?
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Essay by Steven David Justin Sills - oddball magazine
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January 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Are politics incompatible with ethics? Was there ever a president whose conscience was not stained in blood?
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If Homo Sapiens have been in existence for 200,000 years and the many hominid species of man goes back 2 million years with australopethicus, why did this savior Jesus only arrive 2000 years ago?
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January 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
If Homo Sapiens have been in existence for 200,000 years and the many hominid species of man goes back 2 million years with australopethicus, why did this savior Jesus only arrive 2000 years ago?
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Alas, as nothing can be known with certainty when certainty would require being both the control group and the experiment group we exist in plausible realities and plausible outcomes and this is where I landed. Would you call me foolish or fortunate?
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January 1, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Alas, as nothing can be known with certainty when certainty would require being both the control group and the experiment group we exist in plausible realities and plausible outcomes and this is where I landed. Would you call me foolish or fortunate?
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The question is not so much how and why older people conflate the past with the present as why people get through so much of their lives without these mental stumbles. Aim for 2026 considering how miraculous life is
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December 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The question is not so much how and why older people conflate the past with the present as why people get through so much of their lives without these mental stumbles. Aim for 2026 considering how miraculous life is
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We often call murders craven or cowardly as instead of using time and thought to resolve confrontations they resort to barbaric instincts and run away. I cannot think of anything more craven than Trump looking tough by killing people on boats and never engaging in wars
#Trump
#fishermanmurderer
#Trump
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December 30, 2025 at 1:49 AM
We often call murders craven or cowardly as instead of using time and thought to resolve confrontations they resort to barbaric instincts and run away. I cannot think of anything more craven than Trump looking tough by killing people on boats and never engaging in wars
#Trump
#fishermanmurderer
#Trump
#fishermanmurderer
If "making a living," a job, is a form of prostitution in which we barter away the best part of our lives to ensure we are living, what ways are you a prostitute?
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December 29, 2025 at 5:48 PM
If "making a living," a job, is a form of prostitution in which we barter away the best part of our lives to ensure we are living, what ways are you a prostitute?
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How do we navigate change, especially as we get older and aligned to the ideas of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, the father of change?
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#gettingolder
#change
#philosophy
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#gettingolder
#change
#philosophy
Essay by Steven David Justin Sills - oddball magazine
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December 28, 2025 at 1:46 PM
How do we navigate change, especially as we get older and aligned to the ideas of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, the father of change?
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#gettingolder
#change
#philosophy
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#gettingolder
#change
#philosophy
Does the self exist? Can we expunge it and exist?
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#philosophy
#literature
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#philosophy
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Essay by Steven David Justin Sills - oddball magazine
Artwork by Richard Spisak
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December 27, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Does the self exist? Can we expunge it and exist?
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#literature
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