Rats fight over scraps of food. Even ones that have always had full stomachs. You can train it out of them - or most of it from most of them; even with the training instituted, they'll still fight.

Rats do a lot of other things. And they're smart. Like us. Being smart is a part of the whole package of beinga rat or a human. You can't separate one ( Read more... )

CS Lewis and The Great Divorce

I finished it yesterday. We have all these people in the afterlife where hell is a self-imposed stasis in a world where you can wish a house into existence, but no furniture, and it'll let in the rain. If you wanna get out, you have to wait for the bus, which flies up and out, to drop you in a forest where you're a ( Read more... )

Something's shifted recently, I can see into what I'm doing, why I'm doing it. I can see where the problems with how I'm living my life are, and what I need to change them. I can even see them on the fly, while I'm erring, and hav ethe impulse to fix it ( Read more... )

Chronic psychological shittyness led me to seek out a physician and now I've taken two 37.5 mg doses of effexor. The big reason for this is that I was having trouble sleeping and, throughout the last 24 hours, I've felt as if I've  just had  two cups of coffee.

This raises questions surronding the word "am." Is this an altered state of me? Or would ( Read more... )