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Existential Crisis: Hevel, Hevel, Everything Is Utterly Hevel

[DISCLAIMER] As neighborhood children played outside our residence on Sunday mornings during my fifth grade year, my dad sat with me in the living room of our home to teach tenets of the Jehovah’s Witnesses faith, using a Bible textbook entitled The Truth That Leads to Eternal Life. I was particularly interested in learning about an ancient Israel king, Solomon, as 1 Kings, chapter 3 addressed how he received knowledge, wisdom, and understanding directly from Jehovah. My

The Daily Stoic

Deric Hollings

Aug 3014 min read

Death Is Waitin’, as Time Keeps on Slippin’

[DISCLAIMER] Within my blog, I often write about death (the permanent cessation of physical and mental processes in an organism). This is because my approach to mental, emotional, and behavioral health (collectively “mental health”) incorporates existentialism into its foundation. Per one source, “Existentialism is a family of philosophical views and inquiry that explore the human individual’s struggle to lead an authentic life despite the apparent absurdity or incomprehe

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Deric Hollings

Aug 88 min read

Existentialism: Meaning Versus Meaninglessness

[DISCLAIMER] When serving as military police (MP) while in the United States Marine Corps, assigned to Camp Kinser (1997-1999), I befriended a fellow Texan to whom I’ll refer as “Jugador.” He and I were fairly close when stationed in Okinawa, Japan. However, so went the familiar phrase when I served in the military, Jugador was an “out of sight, out of mind” type of friend. This expression is used to mean that a person stops thinking about something or someone if he or sh

Deric Hollings

May 1916 min read

Gallows Humor: Nihilist Penguin

[ DISCLAIMER ] Photo credit (edited), fair use Admittedly, I enjoy gallows humor (a style of comedy which makes light of subject matter that is generally considered taboo, particularly subjects that are typically considered serious or painful to discuss, aiming to influence discomfort, serious thought , and amusement for their audience). Since having begun the informal practice of life coaching in 1991, beginning formal practice of psychotherapy in 2011, I’ve come t

Deric Hollings

Jan 299 min read

We Must Seize What Flees

[ DISCLAIMER ] There’s a line on lyricist Murs ’s song “ Woke Up Dead ”, produced by Jesse Shatkin and from the album Have a Nice Life (2015), that states “gettin’ older as my life gets shorter.” It’s the sort of message that at first may seem like a throwaway line. Of course, we get older as our lives get shorter. Still, I wonder about how often (or not) people contemplate their own mortality. With each passing day, they grow older while their lives get shorter. All th

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Deric Hollings

Nov 1, 20256 min read