Hi, everyone. I don't know why it's taken me this long to reach out to a community like this, but here I am! Since losing my job a few weeks ago I've had a lot of spare time on my hands.. part of which I've used to get back into meditation and do some serious contemplating about, well, life. My past four years have been spent in a traditional education setting, and one of the only fields I haven't looked into was philosophy. After having some "alone time" with my brain, I realized there was more I wanted to learn and think about than what my assigned textbooks had to teach me.

This is a really exciting time for me.. I'm beginning to think about concepts I've never really thought about before: reality, consciousness, knowledge, ethics, instinct, etc.. And as fun as it is just to think, at times it's overwhelming and lonely. Very few of my friends enjoy intense, mentally stimulating discussion or debate. So I'm here, and I'm looking forward to learning, relating, and exploring with all of you!