This post is about a vlog from Philosopheasy on YouTube. I know a little about Simone Weil and found the discussion on The Beast to be interesting. From a practitioner's perspective, I've dealt a lot with The Beast at work, but it was really big and
My "Hell to Pay" post and others related to Covid are a reminder that there is just anger. It is harder to be just in reference to things that are close to home, like having a family member keel over dead from the clot shots. You can also
There's a saying that goes, "We're all junkies for suffering." This has been on my mind a lot lately, having become a counter-focus for negative thoughts and feelings that have popped up more in the last several days. It's been very
I've been following the daily revelations of government waste uncovered by DOGE, the repurposed/rebranded U.S. Digital Services outfit headed now by Elon Musk. Formed by Obama in 2014, it was given a new mission by Trump in January, and from what I've read, it&
The male human form does not come with a switch to shut off the production of semen. As soon as puberty starts, the testes and the prostate begin filling up with the precious bodily fluid responsible for all human life on earth. A human female, on the other hand, comes
I went to my PCP today for a routine checkup. Usually an in-and-out visit with a bit of chit-chat about vaccines. Sharon and I have been simpatico on the true nature of the COVID jabs since our first meeting a couple of years ago. I thought this
I'm leaving some links here that I feel mesh with the theme of the obsolete human. This post will be updated. "The New Housing Market Premium" – Ben Carlson Some facts and figures from Derek’s excellent piece:74% of all restaurant traffic is takeout or delivery
Humans have become obsolete. From a Buddhist perspective, the human form remains the best and most desirable means of finding an exit from samsara, but from a modern techno-social standpoint, the form has outlived its usefulness in the minds of both the powerful and the weak. People with a
Came across the lovely title, Sex, Drugs, Enlightenment: Noble Secrets from an Orthodox Buddhist ex-Monk. From the blurb, it was written by a Boomer – a self-described WASP – and it's all about how LSD, Buddhism, meditation, and tantric sex turned one Alex Walking into a higher being.
I'm blessed to live with two cats. One is a young orange tomcat who started life in a feral cat colony. He was rescued and ended up with a foster mom affiliated with the local humane society. Found him on the Internet one day and said, "He&
This is probably my most ambitious rambling blog entry ever... The spectrum of feelings and thoughts I have about Christianity ranges from appreciation to disappointment to perplexity. Of late, I've become especially negative towards Yahweh and his various schools, and whereas in the recent past I could cobble
I've gotten back in my groove this year, with meditation becoming a daily practice. I'm not up to two hours a day of walking/sitting, but I'm getting in a good 45-60 minutes. It's like anything you practice and then cut