Kris Merrells

It has been nearly three years since I have abandoned the status quo in search of a life that meant something. I always try to imagine what I would think of my life, if I were 100 years old, looking back. So here I am, working as a java jockey and trying to spend as much of the rest of my life as I can pursuing knowledge of self and world. I enjoy my new life in (relative) poverty far more than I did the old one with more money (much to the frustration of my parents) but hopefully I will soon be able to turn the information I am accumulating into some sort of writing career.

A quick note about what I write - generally, when I write about subjects that tend to be considered... well... subjective, I explain things from a scientific/empirical background. This is not because I wish to reduce everything to its scientific component. I do this because I find that generally, the people who are most ready to ask the questions that they used to have answered by religion, are coming from a "science explains everything" mindset, so I find that taking this approach is a good way to get my "foot in the door" with them.