Category Archives: Existential

03-DICE

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Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

Ground Zeros

The closer men came to perfecting for themselves a paradise, the more impatient they seemed to become with it, and with themselves as well.

They made a garden of pleasure, and became progressively more miserable with it as it grew in richness & power & beauty; for then, perhaps, it was easier for them to see that something was missing in the garden, some tree or shrub that would not grow.

When the world was in darkness & wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it.

But when the world became bright with reason & riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn.

Well, they were going to destroy it again, were they – this garden Earth, civilized & knowing, to be torn apart again that Man might hope again in wretched darkness.

A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. (1959)

02-WIND

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Seepage

reality <—> imagination

There are more things likely to frighten us than there are to crush us. We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Seneca

Feedback mechanisms as anticipatory anxiety trigger symptoms which in turn, reinforce the phobia. Paradoxical intention consists of a reversal of attitude. Fear is replaced by a paradoxical wish to experience the anxiety fully, and the wind is taken out of the sails. ~Logotherapy by Victor Frankl

11-VERA

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Circumstance

When you look at an object, you see one side of it at a time; the nature of vision. When you think about something, you think about it in one context at a time; the nature of thought.

Context determines what your mind thinks just as viewing-angle determines what your eye sees.

03-TODO

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Prehistoric

Riding a woolly mammoth bareback, gives one no sense of control.

Simple aerobic exercise such as walking improves episodic memory and executive-control function by about 20%. Running can make you a genius.

Tool for manipulation of reality plays upon words. Control meaning of words, and you can control people who must use them. Example: Whoosh of happiness.

02-HURC

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Knowledge

Room for Reflection

No one wants to explore the darkest recesses of the soul without bringing along a light. Allow self-improvement to occur at the deepest levels by aligning the entirety of your being with your purpose, facilitated by operating in a context of lightness.

–Rebirthing by Leonard & Laut

Use your skills & talents, doing what you enjoy, to create the perfect world for someone else.

31-BUND

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Outerworldly

Wallace The Brave

There was an indescribably hideous monster standing quietly behind him.

Arthur yawed wildly as his skin tried to jump one way and his skeleton the other, whilst his brain tried to work out which of his ears it most wanted to crawl out of.

“Bet you weren’t expecting to see me again,” said the monster.

Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams