Social interaction is beneficial to all human beings, but they are types of social interaction that cause more harm than good. At some point, some people literally go off to live in the woods, mountains, or modern caves, in order to avoid such risks. This, to me, is the cost of a geo-social threat which is so pervasive that you may not even notice ( Read more... )

The thing about "recovery" is that it assumes that there was something good once, that was lost... in theory, we're all born happy an then became distressed in one way or another... but I can't really say I want to regress to childhood, because the prime thing I was aware of was how much my soul was being killed by coercion to conform and the noise ( Read more... )

I worked overtime on Saturday. It was fine, because I wasn't doing data entry,but, rather, some combination of filing and manual arithmetic and stuff. It was at a lower pay rate, but I did it anyways, because I needed the time in AC.
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"Knowledge is half the battle."
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On hot days like this, I usually resort to passive entertainment. However, today, I have more creative plans. One problem is that I have too many.
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"The way to liberation is to train yourself to live in the present without waiting to become anything. Give up becoming this or that, live without cravings, and experience this present moment with full attention."
--- The Buddha
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This one is just spontaneous, unlike most of my writing thus far which has been transcribed from notebooks or based on previous works.

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I beat the rain, but going to the beach yesterday rather than today. And today, I slept a lot, and praised myself for idleness. The only downside of today is the laundry which I won't be able to sun-dry.

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I mentioned earlier that they are a lot of things I hate;
but it's more accurate to say "disdain" or "despise".

Here are some things that I like or love, in my life:

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