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“And sin, young man, is when you treat people like things.”Terry Pratchett, Carpe Jugulum This is the root of all bigotry: the idea that some people are things. You must remember that everyone is a person. All of the people you deal with are people. They are heroes of their own stories. They have theirContinueContinue reading “Treating People like Things”

I don’t come naturally to meditation. My mind is like a wiki on hyperdrive. And bringing my thoughts to heel is not a natural process. As such, I feel that meditation is one of the most important practices I can cultivate. My mind in its natural state is useful. But if allowed to run free,ContinueContinue reading “Meditation and Letting Things Pass By”

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for theContinueContinue reading “Booting Up”

I wonder, often, about my anxiety disorder. I wonder if anxiety disorder might not be the human brain attempting and failing to adapt to the modern world. Look at the imaginary things we have created that can steal our ability to survive. Taxes and rent and mortgage payments. Think about the abstracted ways other peopleContinueContinue reading “Benefits”

I watched the first episode of the TV series Helstrom. He delivers a speech in the middle of what, at first, appears to be an exorcism. Basically he comments that secrets lose power when they are exposed. He is speaking about supernatural power. And I think that this is interesting. Given my own ideas onContinueContinue reading “Helstrom”