Unstable? Or perhaps with a deeper stability born of comfort with chaos, spells of depression and withdrawal punctuating periods of fullness and life in a way which is purifying and ultimately constructive. Just as the cold uncomfortable winter–bringing in its wake desolate winds and dead landscapes–creates the possibility of new life the next spring, so [...]
Here‘s a link to a financial company which predicts a global period of economic, social, and political upheaval beginning in the next few years. People with bad news tend to be labelled pessimists and ignored because most people prefer feeling good to having a realistic perspective. Of course, this is only a temporary good feeling, [...]
The world remains as it always was, cancerous growths notwithstanding. And the Earth will shake off its human tumor just as it’s shaken off every other problem it has encountered. The human species was the first to fill a wide niche, like the first amphibious reptiles that were able to crawl up on land. If [...]
I’ve been reading this. So out of all the sensations thoughts feelings intuitions and imaginations you experience you choose a few and call it “I”. This is the ego, the brain function you identify with. It is the medium of your experience, but it is not “You.” Your Self consists not only of your conscious [...]
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” -Emerson I’ll go one step further and say that all lives are experiments. There are endless infinities standing before us, paths leading through life in every possible way; each of us is here to try one of them. There are [...]
Offering universal healthcare will always be a good way to get elected, but it makes no sense as a practical solution to health issues facing the nation. Before we embark on a plan which will somehow magically make affordable healthcare available to everyone, we should embark on a plan to get people to live in [...]
No money, no jobs, no food, hordes of people milling around in a lawless urban landscape, banding into gangs, eating whatever they can find, eating other people, turning into twisted mockeries of their former humanity. Yes, the zombie invasion is real, but it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s us it’s [...]