Existential
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Being mindful
I once did a meditation in Birmingham at a yoga class, it wasn’t really my thing before that but I enjoyed this one tremendously. We all sat in a circle and considered a flame, it’s flickering light captivating everyone in the room. I normally have an active mind that never rests, but this time it… Continue reading
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Impoverishment and ire
You work your life, you do it because a somebody or a group of somebodies make the decision that you can create value on their behalf and they are willing to give you tokens that you can then exchange for those items that you need and those things that you desire. Simply, this is the… Continue reading
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It is about belief
As politicians, the media and apologist try to convince us that this isn’t about faith, ask yourself this: how could it not be about faith? How does a person get to committing an atrocity of this nature by any other means? I’m a leftist, as such I tend to accept folks for what they are,… Continue reading
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The diary of an unremarkable man
Every now and then I find myself falling victim to an acute case of melancholy. I am, of course as most are, a quite reflective soul, given to assessing my life and summarising it up to this point; trying to find a reason to believe, and maybe we all need to, that I am valid,… Continue reading
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The others confusion effect
I have a theory and it goes a little something like this….. People mostly think that they have an authentic self – this is a challengeable concept though. We can first ask as to where we find this authentic person? Is it in their own head space, the mind self, or is it in reality,… Continue reading
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Wedded
Is traditional marriage an outmoded financial transaction between a man and the father of the bride that guarantees that the woman is treated as an owned item, as property? The traditions that we associate with it are those of a transaction; the asking for the hand of the daughter and the father paying for the… Continue reading
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A Race to the Bottom
In any relationship the person who cares the least has the power to dominate the dynamic, the power to make the other person abide by their vision of how the relationship will pan out. In any business the ambition is to failure and leadership is a position the deserved are mostly excluded from. I am… Continue reading
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A conversation with the self
Uninhibited and uncensored communication may never be possible. We are a complicated species full of contradictions and flaws in our reasoning and we are still somewhat in the infancy of our development. The things we ponder are constrained by the framework we ponder them within, abandoned to THE THEY we are born into a circumstance… Continue reading
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Pedagogically
On the position of Kaczynski, Pedagogically In an educational society but not of that society, the dissent of a tutor based on such paradigmatic reasoning as trying to act as if we were educationally free in a system that simply labels itself free but stands up to no scrutiny of this postulate. This is the awakened individual… Continue reading
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The Principal’s Speech
The Principal’s Speech Ok so there is a speech day every year at ******** School and in 2015 procedures were handled by the new Principal, a man who is happy to be known for his enthusiastic creation of and strict adherence to procedures. While that itself is not problematic, as procedure is necessary for a machine… Continue reading
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