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MALE + EGO = FIND SOMEONE ELSE TO DO IT (cause I ain't the one)

To words that can't run together in succession (when speaking to me) are male and ego especially when it comes to working. I'm a fast worker, so I often don't regard things like "male jobs". If he's busy and I can do it, I'm doing it. Don't come and male ego me. You're not less of a man cause you... read more

painful.

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change." "The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone." "I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me." "Nothing is... read more

Map Comparisons

I'm on a special exploration in the 'dusty attic' of my mind this week: comparing two unexpected 'maps' for a book chapter I'm writing. On one hand, Kate Atkinson's Human Croquet (family secrets, and how time loops and bends back on itself). On the other, Thoreau's Botanical Writings (his... read more

The devil in these lil choices...

One of the most dangerous perceptions for any of us to hold is the belief that we are, by nature, "good." This "I am good" mindset is the widest gateway through which evil can enter a person's heart. It's not because they intend to become evil, but because they're not prepared for their potential... read more

FMK #Succession version

Somebody else go first this time please. FMK Connor, Kendall, Roman

Eternal return thought experiment

What if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness, and say to you, "This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought... read more