Practicing my schtick 2
Testosterone is a potent hormone. As I stood with a knife in my hand I looked at my opponent, testosterone and adrenaline pumping and creating a heady cocktail, holding the carving knife he had rushed home to fetch. It’s a peculiarity of time that it appears to slow down in moments of high drama, events [...]
The road less traveled
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
Answers
I wanted to come up with an absolute understanding. So I thought about what I was actually looking for, about the mechanism of things and why we do what we do. Specifically it was to do with me, a reflective process that would hopefully deliver a new perception. It did. The new perception was ‘answers’. [...]
Closer
The closer you get to something, the more acute it becomes. If you approach a city, you begin to pick up on its frequency, its people, its traffic, the feel of it until eventually you are right at the heart of the city. It’s the same with anything, a new idea, situation, concept, thought process [...]
be careful what you worship
A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our tribute is paid in secret in the dark recesses of our hearts, but it will out. That which dominates our imaginations and our thoughts will determine our lives, and our character. Therefore, it behooves us to be careful what we worship, [...]
Eudaimonia or The Good Life
Part of the extraordinary mechanics of the human mind is its ability to transcend its current situation and either endure or persist anyway. This doesn’t only refer to people finding themselves in extremis, a war torn region of Africa perhaps or to the horrors experienced by Jews and others in the Holocaust. It refers to [...]
Lost
Something about being lost, it’s a mildly deranging sensation. Time passes but our objective gets no closer. This is how being lost feels to me; a sequence of turns and detours that return one only to the point where you realised you were lost. If I extend this then I can see that there are [...]
Intelligence
About happiness, it’s a state of mind, a personal thing. A self fulfilling prophecy that has little or no bearing upon external factors. It’s a strange, subjective place. Even in the most grotesque conditions there is the opportunity to grow and develop, the greater the suffering, so it seems, the sweeter the fruits of one’s [...]
The big questions
The BIG Questions Stumbled across an old thought process . Well, when I say an old thought process I mean one that has personal longevity. I can trace it back to when I was a small child. There are truly big questions in life. We discover ourselves as sentient beings. pin pricks of consciousness located, [...]