Category: philosophy

• Too Fast, Too Paris

  There’s comfort to not being terrorized by the thought that one’s action or inaction contributes to an inevitable future at the mercy of eventual degeneration.

  Evan Tan

  June 30, 2022

  art, books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, reflections, travel

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• With Distance We Make Friends

  It’s easy to be friendly. But some people assume friendliness should mean unbridled openness. Far too often I’ve seen how some people would lovebomb strangers in the hope that they will win their trust and friendship. I think true friendship takes time.

  Evan Tan

  November 13, 2021

  personal life, philosophy, rambling, reflections, vegan

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• The Impostor

  Do we stop being impostors the moment everyone is finally convinced we are who we say we are?

  Evan Tan

  July 6, 2021

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, rambling, reflections, Uncategorized

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• Go Fake Yourself

  The more I think about pinning down who the “authentic self” is, the more I question that it even exists.

  Evan Tan

  December 6, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, rambling, reflections

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• Just Because It Is, Doesn’t Mean It Has to Be (Or Why Facts Aren’t Enough to Determine Futures)

  Facts are not ethical statements. So how can we make moral judgments from observation?

  Evan Tan

  October 25, 2020

  personal life, philosophy, reflections, vegan

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• “The Universe is Having a Wank”: Teleological Explorations, By Way of Birthdays

  There’s nothing that drives you further down into introspection like the waning high of your birthday that’s almost about to end (except probably a close brush with death, a bus speeding at 100 kilometers per hour barely colliding with the car you’re in at a highway—but that’s another story.)

  Evan Tan

  October 3, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, rambling, reflections, Uncategorized

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• What If Everything Will Have Always Been Us

  As I went to bed and fell asleep, I started dreaming about dying, and I thought about how I slowly started to unravel, like fabric that had started to fray and were now becoming threads of different colors again.

  Evan Tan

  May 31, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, reflections

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• To See Clearly, Don’t Shy Away from Conflict: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  Recently, I was in a heated Twitter debate about how people who had animal companions but were not vegan were essentially in a master-slave relationship. While some of my friends argued with me directly, some chose not to reply and instead resorted to subtweets and snarky, shady remarks. Those who did the latter did not…

  Evan Tan

  May 17, 2020

  personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, vegan

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• Suffering is a Cookie: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  I suffer because I believe that I deserve that cookie. But I also know that eating that cookie comes with consequences.

  Evan Tan

  March 22, 2020

  personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, reflections, vegan

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• Is There Really A Self? (& 10 PM Explorations of Being)

  What if, as Plato said in his allegory of the cave, we only see shadows of reality, and that is because of the frailty that is our humanity?

  Evan Tan

  February 4, 2020

  books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, reflections

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