Life
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The things we are born to do
We are inspired by all that we read to think about ourselves in both fantastical and critical ways. I often wonder why someone is no good at something that seems easy to me, I’m sure that thought has hit you too at some point where you’re maybe watching another member of your household trying to Continue reading
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Time – clocks that don’t tick
Is a clock a clock if it does not work? A deliberate intervention prevents the mechanism from having the potential energy to move the hands, the batteries are removed, maybe it is just broken. My pal did this with a nice timepiece, a carriage clock his mother owned that she was bequeathed from an ex Continue reading
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Our outrageous fortune
The worst person is they that would exploit, make profit from, and wish praise for dealing with, the miseries you and I cannot conquer alone. No evil exists more than that which wishes your sickness to enable it’s remedy, and no person is so depraved that their validation is not gained without the existence of Continue reading
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You are in my tribe
Even though all wearable overtly labelled clothing is trying to appeal to you, the buyer, I think there may be an important distinction to be found in the motivation behind the purchase. These are tribal identifiers, no different from the bodily tattoos of a Māori or an Aztec or a modern gang member or motorbike Continue reading
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Angry all the time
I am an angry man, in my head I may already have killed you and disposed of your corpse… You only have to say the word yawn and I will yawn. If you yawn, I will yawn. If my cat yawns then guess what… I yawn. Apparently that is a sign that sympathy is indeed Continue reading
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It’s only scary if you think about it
The decisions we make in youth are quick, we haven’t the experience to know that they may go badly, so we go boldly. Now, at this age, if I stop and think, I will access a bank of experiential data that will educate my decision to either go for it, or not, likely not. That Continue reading
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Turn around
Peter Griffin (character – Family Guy) often says that things grind his gears. I get the same, my reaction to the ridiculous things that are offered to me in conversation and media is that they wind me up, they make me angry. I could wake from a drunken sleep and rhyme you off a bunch… Continue reading
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Revisiting mistruths
Every philosopher is on a quest to write something that changes the way the person who reads it thinks, a search for some compelling argument. Not truth as we might contend, persuasion would be a better term. What is verifiable through testing is scientific fact, those are not arguable in the same way as the Continue reading
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You didn’t ask!
My TikTok feed is full of white men marching the streets of London calling for an end to immigration. These guys have a cause, not one I believe in, but one they feel strongly about. It made me wonder if they had had any children? I assumed that most of them must have, these are Continue reading
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A difficult question with an likely unsatisfactory answer..
So, trying to be as diplomatic as possible, and not get myself into trouble, I ask Em a question. It occurred to me that sometimes I considered that women are often irrational, and sometimes slaves to their current emotions in a way that men tend not to be. Now that is a generalisation, yes, but Continue reading
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