Mon 15th

Every last person on this earth can be amazing just by doing stuff. No one can be amazing just sitting on their ass listening to other people’s stories.

— Rory Miller

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Sun 14th

Once upon a time, the planet was tyrannized by a giant dragon. The dragon stood taller than the largest cathedral, and it was covered with thick black scales. Its red eyes glowed with hate, and from its terrible jaws flowed an incessant stream of evil-smelling yellowish-green slime. It demanded from humankind a blood-curdling tribute: to satisfy its enormous appetite, ten thousand men and women had to be delivered every evening at the onset of dark to the foot of the mountain where the dragon-tyrant lived. Sometimes the dragon would devour these unfortunate souls upon arrival; sometimes again it would lock them up in the mountain where they would wither away for months or years before eventually being consumed.

— The Fable of the Dragon-Tyrant

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Tue 9th

If you have no capacity for violence then you are a healthy productive citizen: a sheep. If you have a capacity for violence and no empathy for your fellow citizens, then you have defined an aggressive sociopath—a wolf. But what if you have a capacity for violence, and a deep love for your fellow citizens? Then you are a sheepdog, a warrior, someone who is walking the hero’s path. Someone who can walk into the heart of darkness, into the universal human phobia, and walk out unscathed.

— On Sheep, Wolves and Sheepdogs

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Sat 6th I was sitting on the couch, waggling my foot idly, when my slipper fell off. My foot began to get cold, but I couldn’t be bothered retrieving the slipper, as I was busy writing this post. Also, I was a little drunk, which may have affected my judgement, but also had the effect of lessening how cold my foot felt, as wine seems to have a way of warming my extremities.

I then debated whether or not to post this (because, let’s be honest, it’s pretty dumb,) but wine was affecting my judgement so I just published it anyway. MLIA. 1 Comment

Tue 2nd

I could happily live there. (From) 0 Comments

Tue 2nd If ‘the spiritual’ actually exists, then it must be a part of reality, and therefore operate by the rules of reality. In particular, internal logical incoherence is a pretty good sign that something cannot actually exist. Natural systems don’t tend to be so good at “just ignore that gap there.”

I’m a materialist, I guess, in that I don’t believe in a second, independent set of rules and laws for ‘the spiritual realm.’ 6 Comments

Mon 1st A definition of madness:

Madness is experienced when one can find no link between one’s own subjective reality and another’s.

Or, to refine it further:

The larger the distance perceived between one’s subjective reality and another’s, the greater the impression of madness.

Of course, because reality is consensual, ‘madness’ is often just a measure of how far one has strayed from the herd. 0 Comments