My engine is fuelled by plants, which means the system is cleaned, rather than clogged up with rotting flesh.
There is an irony when people dictate the morality of others, while actively supporting the meat trade. The single biggest thing that most people can do to make a positive change in the world is to stop eating animals, so as to help end the mechanised suffering we perpetrate on other creatures and the planet.
Fortunate people often come up with stories and beliefs that justify their own lofty positions in life, looking down on the suffering they could otherwise do something about.
If you have a lot of surplus money, it is your responsibility to spend it well, otherwise you are squandering those resources and other people’s lives. Andrew Carnegie’s quote from a prior era is a bit harsh, but has some truth to it: “The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.”
As Carnegie discovered, there can be a lot of personal fulfilment in spending well.
Random Thoughts:
It is liberating to say what you think and feel, not beholden to what other people say you should think and feel – or to what you think they want to hear.
I wasn’t at my best in an institutionalised setting.
Experience something.
Initial feeling happens.
Mind overrides and reasons a recommended alternative.
Go back and revisit the feeling.
What is the feeling telling you?
There is probably more evaluation in that feeling than the clumsy thought cogs, which are usually powered by fear.
Random Thoughts:
What is the definition of someone who believes that religious texts were written by fallible men, not God – but who has a belief in a transcendent divinity that inspires the human heart?
Hobbies include: staring at my phone.
Wanting to know how everything works can be exhausting, distracting, and fascinating.
Random Thoughts:
Live today before you decay.
If you find meaning in your job then working is living.
10,000 years ago or so, humans had only wooden and stone tools; and were foraging or hunting each day like any other creature on this planet.
Humans first navigated the globe about 1,000 years ago, with the Vikings probably the first to cross the Atlantic in either direction, reaching Newfoundland for certain in 1021 AD.
We are currently experiencing the non-naissance period of the arts.
A painting is not the brushstrokes.
We pray under crosses, owned by Man
And grovel to bosses, slaves to a plan;
Trapped in a web, of their endless lies,
To be spun from a thread, and eaten like flies.
[Jack knocks on the door].
JOHN: Who is it?
JACK: The question is, my friend: is it better to be alive or dead?
JOHN: Is it nobler to suffer what luck throws at you, or to fight against all those troubles and end them?
JACK: To die is to sleep – a sleep that ends all the heartache and shocks that life gives us.
JOHN: That’s an achievement I wish for. To die, to sleep – to sleep … maybe to dream. Ah! But there’s the catch! In death’s sleep who knows what kind of dreams might come, when we go there. It must make us pause. This is the tragedy that stretches out our sufferings for so long!
JACK: Who would put up with all life’s countless humiliations and abuses – the unfairness and injustice – when you could simply pick up the knife and call it quits?
[A knife is slid on the ground under the cubicle door].
JACK: Who would choose to grunt and sweat through an exhausting life?
JOHN: Unless they were afraid of something after death – the undiscovered country from which no visitor returns – that gives no answers and makes us stick to the evils we know, rather than rush off to find other ones we don’t? Fear of death makes us all cowards, and our natural impulse for action is lost in thought.
[John gets up and opens the cubicle door. No one is there].
To do priority list:
All part of a 3 year plan (with the exception of point 5).
Random Thoughts:
I’m now less keen on the phrase “so meta”.
Thoughts can cause distortions and distress. Accumulated thoughts can cause a state of mind that seems impossible to escape.
The power that things and situations have over you disappears with the absence of thought.
You can’t think your way out of thinking.
To try is to think. To be is to live.
The seven standalone short stories are: The Outer View, Night Fire, All The World’s A Stage, Human World, How I Became Prime Minister, Doomsday 1066, The Viewer. A combined version ties them together as a novel.
Each of the seven short stories have an adapted screen time of about 45 minutes. And they are all connected. The first two could be parts of the same story.
I’ve gone through phases of mainly focusing on, in turn: music, songwriting, singing, and artworks. The next up is writing, then performing what I have written. None of the activities are switched-off. It’s just I start to feel pulled more in a different direction.
Random Thoughts:
I’m winning at being slow.
Rob Walker 