Calling Reality's Bluff: Hope, Purpose, and The Plan

This work’s main idea is that the world of objects “doesn't exist” - and that something better does.Some find life to be quite straightforward. Others doubt everything. Both ask how it could be otherwise. This work is a personal account that nods to each of these views in hopes of exploring the problem of pain. Here, the author suggests that our shared world of space and time is an outgrowth of interpersonal struggle - "suffering." Calling Reality's Bluff refuses to defend suffering - this simply cannot be done. But evidenced in the world around us is yet a glimmer of hope that truth, with all of its inexcusable suffering, is kind; and that being here is an optimistic expression of choice, in anticipation of a better life to come. Read more