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Meanings and Musings

Essays and poems that will challenge you. You might not always like what you read here, but your thoughts will always be provoked.

The End of the World

The End of the World

I saw the end of the world, and it was quiet.
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Devan Charles Berkley
Jun 21
The Demand and the Band

The Demand and the Band

One day the Universe told I, (the I that is thee), to go forth, become and Be.
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Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 20
The Terror and Liberation of Choice

The Terror and Liberation of Choice

Our age, in some ways, is defined by a buffet of choices. There is unparalleled external freedom in the choice of career, hobbies, and…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 20
Identity and the Other, a love story and a protracted suicide

Identity and the Other, a love story and a protracted suicide

Our modern age seems to be defined by division. In the political sphere, it is perhaps the most apparent. Politics has taken on a perverse…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 15

Hate is Drunkeness

Hate is the most potent form of drunkness known to humanity. Hate is a pleasurable loss of reason. A pleasure that often harms. It is a…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 2

The World is Fiction

Most of the modern world had to be invented. Cars, computers, phones, apartments, all of these things at some point existed as pure mental…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Feb 10

Kettlebells and finding growth

I’ve come to be rather fond of kettlebells. I started working out with them about four years ago, and they’ve become one of the ways I find…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Feb 3

Thinky Broody Beasts

Humans are wondrous creatures. We are one of the few species that can think about the past and future. We can imagine and dream and give…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Jan 3

A subtle debt

Your phone demands what is owed.
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Devan Charles Berkley
Dec 12, 2021

A Brief and Unconventional Love Letter to Humanity

In each human, there is both angel and demon. Murder, theft, rape, war, torture. All the instruments of the devil were birthed of man…
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Devan Charles Berkley
Dec 6, 2021
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